Anthropic:
Anthropic details the “Assistant Axis”, a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior  —  Read the full paper  —  When you talk to a large language model, you can think of yourself as talking to a character.

Kalyeena Makortoff / The Guardian:
The UK Treasury committee says the government and Bank of England's “wait-and-see approach” to AI risks in the financial sector poses “serious harm” to the UK  —  Government, Bank of England and FCA criticised for taking ‘wait-and-see’ approach to AI use in financial sector

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M+ lines of code across 1,000 files  —  Scaling long-running autonomous coding.  Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of “autonomous” coding agents:

Kiran Stacey / The Guardian:
The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling  —  Move comes as peers prepare to vote on an amendment to a bill that would enact a ban within a year of the bill passing

Is there anyone who doesn’t find this sad?