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OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions, Sequoia to invest in Anthropic, Zhipu AI breaks US chip reliance, The Drama at Thinking Machines Is Riveting Silicon Valley
It turns out that Anthropic accidentally trained against the chain of thought of Claude Mythos Preview in around 8% of training episodes. This is at least the second independent incident in which Anthropic accidentally exposed their model's CoT to the oversight signal. In more powerful systems, this
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions, The Drama at Thinking Machines, STEM: Scaling Transformers with Embedding Modules
Many people—especially AI company employees [1] —believe current AI systems are well-aligned in the sense of genuinely trying to do what they're supposed to do (e.g., following their spec or constitution, obeying a reasonable interpretation of instructions). [2] I disagree. Current AI systems seem p
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China’s Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent, Google Brings Genie 3’s Interactive World-Building Prototype to AI Ultra Subscribers, and more!
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Google adds Gemini AI-powered ‘auto browse’ to Chrome, Users flock to open source Moltbot for always-on AI, Qwen3-Max-Thinking debuts, and more!
Sometimes people make various suggestions that we should simply build "safe" artificial Superintelligence (ASI), rather than the presumably "unsafe" kind.[1] There are various flavors of “safe” people suggest. Sometimes they suggest building “aligned” ASI: You have a full agentic autonomous god-like
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now The AGI economy – most labor goes to the machines, and humans shift to verification:…What grappling with the singularity seriously l
Code: github.com/ElleNajt/controllability tldr: Yueh-Han et al. (2026) showed that models have a harder time making their chain of thought follow user instruction compared to controlling their response (the non-thinking, user-facing output). Their CoT controllability conditions require the models’ t
A crazy packed edition of Last Week in AI! Plus some small updates.
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Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6, Google Rolls Out Latest AI Model Gemini 3.1 Pro, Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
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Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6, Google Rolls Out Gemini 3.1 Pro, Anthropic CEO Amodei says Pentagon’s threats ‘do not change our position’ on AI
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. A somewhat shorter issue than usual as I had to do a lot of child wrangling this weekend. Subscribe now Why does Google’s model hate itself and wh
Anthropic officially told by DOD that it’s a supply chain risk, ‘cancel ChatGPT’ trend is growing after OpenAI signs a deal with the US military, and more!
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OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking versions, Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite at 1/8th the cost of Pro, Where things stand with the Department of War Anthropic
