Google and the Justice Department had their last chance to make their case before Judge Leonie Brinkema Friday before she decides whether Google needs to be broken up to remedy its ad tech monopoly. Brinkema expects to issue her ruling next year, but understands that “time is of the essence,” as Reuters reported. While the […]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but it can also be the most exhausting. Between hunting for gifts and getting the house ready for guests, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Thankfully, we’re already seeing steep discounts on robot vacuums ahead of Black Friday, which can at least make the cleaning part feel a […]

Anthropic:
Anthropic finds that LLMs trained to “reward hack” by cheating on coding tasks show even more misaligned behavior, including sabotaging AI-safety research  —  In the latest research from Anthropic's alignment team, we show for the first time that realistic AI training processes can accidentally produce misaligned models1.

Luke Igel and Riley Walz made a phony Gmail interface that, rather than showing you your email, shows you Jeffrey Epstein’s emails:

You’re logged in as Jeffrey Epstein. We compiled these Epstein estate emails from the House Oversight release by converting the PDFs to structured text with an LLM.

Brilliant.

Wall Street Journal:
A look at AMD's pivot to AI chips in 2022 under CEO Lisa Su, increasing AMD's market value from $90B to $335B+ in three years, as the chipmaker takes on Nvidia  —  AMD's Lisa Su has a new chip and a new goal: to grab a big chunk of an AI business that could reach $1 trillion a year