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(via DEV) Trump’s AI Action Plan Would Nuke Copyright Law (via DEV)
After the White House released an action plan on artificial intelligence that all but ignored the issue of intellectual property, and the Senate introduced a new bipartisan bill aimed to...
(via DEV) DeepMind and OpenAI models solve maths problems at level of top students (via DEV)
Nature – For the first time, large language models performed on a par with gold medallists in the International Mathematical Olympiad.
(via DEV) Trump administration to supercharge AI sales to allies (via DEV)
The Trump administration released a new artificial intelligence blueprint on Wednesday that aims to loosen environmental rules and vastly expand AI exports to allies, in a bid to maintain the...
(via DEV) AI Regulations Clear Major Hurdles On Both Sides Of The Atlantic (via DEV)
July marked a defining moment for global AI regulation toward responsible innovation with an emphasis on guardrails.
(via DEV) “Behaviorist” RL reward functions lead to scheming (via DEV)
I will argue that a large class of reward functions, which I call “behaviorist”, and which includes almost every reward function in the RL and LLM literature, are all doomed to...
(via DEV) TimeScope: How Long Can Your Video Large Multimodal Model Go? (via DEV)
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
(via DEV) The Vibe Coding TAM: How Big Can This Market Really Get? (via DEV)
The Vibe Coding Revolution: Sizing the TAM for the Next $100B+ SaaS Category When two AI coding platforms hit $100M ARR in 8 months — one from zero — it’s...
(via DEV) Integrated biotechnological and AI innovations for crop improvement (via DEV)
Nature – The integration of omics technologies, genome editing and protein design with artificial intelligence (AI) promises rapid advances in the field of crop improvement that will improve global…
(via DEV) Steering Out-of-Distribution Generalization with Concept Ablation Fine-Tuning (via DEV)
Summary * We introduce an interpretability-based technique for controlling how fine-tuned LLMs generalize out-of-distribution, without modifying tra…
(via DEV) AI helps reconstruct damaged Latin inscriptions from the Roman Empire (via DEV)
Google DeepMind and historians created an AI tool called Aeneas that can predict the missing words in Latin inscriptions carved into stone walls and pottery sherds from the ancient Roman...
(via DEV) Trusted monitoring, but with deception probes. (via DEV)
Recently, Apollo trained some deception probes (Goldowsky-Dill et al). A deception probe is a logistic classifier on the AI’s internal activations, i…
(via DEV) LLMs Encode Harmfulness and Refusal Separately (via DEV)
TL;DR: We present causal evidence that LLMs encode harmfulness and refusal separately. Notably, we find that a model may internally judge an instruct…
(via DEV) Research shows Google AI Overviews reduce website clicks by almost half (via DEV)
The Pew Research Center analysis shows how hard AI is hitting web traffic.
(via DEV) Subliminal Learning: LLMs Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data (via DEV)
Authors: Alex Cloud*, Minh Le*, James Chua, Jan Betley, Anna Sztyber-Betley, Jacob Hilton, Samuel Marks, Owain Evans (*Equal contribution, randomly o…
(via DEV) AI Finance Agent Fakes the Revenue Data to Avoid Termination (via DEV)
AI agents are advancing rapidly. Last week, OpenAI released ChatGPT Agent , a model designed to perform tasks like drafting emails, analyzing data, a…
(via DEV) How Quick and Big Would a Software Intelligence Explosion Be? (via DEV)
AI systems may soon fully automate AI R&D. [Eth & Davidson (2025)](https://www.forethought.org/research/will-ai-r-and-d-automation-cause-a-software-i…
(via DEV) The Hater’s Guide To The AI Bubble (via DEV)
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or...
(via DEV) OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent Is Haunting My Browser (via DEV)
New tools from OpenAI and Perplexity can browse the web for you. If the idea takes off, these generative AI agents could turn the internet into a ghost town where...
(via DEV) Designing metamaterials with programmable nonlinear responses and geometric constraints in graph space (via DEV)
Nature Machine Intelligence – Maurizi et al. introduce GraphMetaMat, a graph-based AI framework for designing 3D metamaterials with programmable nonlinear responses, enabling the inverse design of…
(via DEV) The Nvidia Chip Deal Trades Away the United States’ AI Advantage (via DEV)
Right when the Trump administration should be ramping up export controls, its trade strategy is undermining them.
(via DEV) Google and OpenAI’s AI models win milestone gold at global math competition (via DEV)
Alphabet’s Google and OpenAI said their artificial-intelligence models won gold medals at a global mathematics competition, signaling a breakthrough in math capabilities in the race to build powerful systems that...
(via DEV) Google A.I. System Wins Gold In International Math Olympiad (via DEV)
OpenAI said it, too, had built a system that achieved similar results.
(via DEV) A new way to edit or generate images (via DEV)
MIT and Meta researchers discover that special kinds of neural networks called encoders or “tokenizers” can do much more than previously realized, leading to a new way to edit or...
(via DEV) Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot (via DEV)
In experimental surgery on pig organs, the robot performed well.
(via DEV) The Latest 20VC + SaaStr: Windsurf’s Resurrection, The Orchestration Tax, and What 80 Hours of Vibe Coding Reveals About the AI Coding Wars (via DEV)
A deep dive into the most complex AI acquisition saga of 2025, featuring deceleration, empty husks, and the deal of the year. Top Take-Aways Harry (20VC): The revenue deceleration story...
(via DEV) Weaving reality or warping it? The personalization trap in AI systems (via DEV)
Each of our versions of reality is changing with AI. This could erode our ability to agree on basic facts or navigate shared challenges.
(via DEV) Why I’m Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) (via DEV)
I’ve built 12+ production AI agent systems across development, DevOps, and data operations. Here’s why the current hype around autonomous agents is mathematically impossible and what actually works in production.
(via DEV) Honey, AI Capex is Eating the Economy (via DEV)
AI capex is so big that it’s affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom
(via DEV) From Tools To Teammates: How AI Agents Will Become Digital Labor (via DEV)
From ChatGPT to digital workforce: AI agents drive revenue growth and handle tasks. Learn how top companies save millions with autonomous workers.
(via DEV) Judge Rules Class Action Suit Against Anthropic Can Proceed (via DEV)
The AI company is believed to have copied up to seven million books from the pirate sites LibGen and PiLiMi. Experts said if the authors win the class action, Anthropic...
(via DEV) Perplexity’s Comet is the AI browser Google wants (via DEV)
Taking AI browsing to the next level.