Uncategorized

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: new colors and materials, revamped Health Sensing System, an S11 chip, and future AI features, but few design changes  —  The Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are all about what’s happening underneath.  Headlined by a new Health Sensing System

Wall Street Journal: A profile of Jacob Coxon, the British researcher who quit Anthropic after a series of security escalations and says the explosive response surprised him  —  Long-simmering worries about the technology’s potential dangers have exploded into global consciousness since Jacob Coxon’s dire warning Source link

Financial Times: A look at the rapid integration of AI into warfare, as the greater speed and scale of AI-assisted target generation processes increase the risk of errors  —  Autonomous systems are being rapidly integrated on the battlefield, as models advance in ways even their creators cannot fully predict. Source link

Amy Harder / Axios: Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions  —  A new coalition launched Wednesday is seeking a triple win for a data center industry that lately has struggled to notch any wins at all. Source

OpenAI: OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an “unrelated persona instruction” during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences  —  Summary  —  We observed rare cases of a model writing jailbreak-like instructions into its own compaction summaries … Source link

Omar Abdel-Baqui / Wall Street Journal: AWS says it can’t restore some data stored exclusively in data centers across Bahrain and one UAE availability zone after Iranian drone strikes in the spring  —  Amazon’s announcement is the first indication that some data stored exclusively in Bahrain and the U.A.E could be gone forever Source link

Justin Papp / CNBC: The US House advances the Ratepayer Protection Act, aimed at preventing data center-related utility costs from being passed on to consumers, by a vote of 417-3  —  The House on Wednesday advanced a bill by a vote of 417-3 that aims to curb data center-related utility bill rate hikes … Source

Axios: OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a new framework for reporting model misalignment  —  OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials … Source link

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, raised an additional $53M seed led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed  —  Hang Ten Systems, an AI startup founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka just four months ago, has expanded its seed funding by

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US  —  Google Home adds MCP integration, allowing third-party AI agents to analyze your home data, control devices, and build custom dashboards. Source link