The internet has a new favorite toy, and it is a flybrain scheme. Earlier this month, HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, Google Research, and their collaborators published research describing the first complete wiring diagram of an entire male fruit fly central nervous system. Continue Reading →
Microsoft AI published its "Humanist AI Code of Conduct," a draft governing document for the models it builds. Continue Reading →
Frontier models are about to become the most powerful cyber weapons ever built. Governments around the world have figured this out, and their posture toward AI has changed accordingly. A model that can read code, find flaws, write exploits, and chain them together at machine speed is a weapon in every sense of the word. Continue Reading →
On Tuesday, the NSA, CISA, and the FBI issued a joint advisory naming six Chinese AI companies (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI) as running industrial-scale "distillation" attacks against U.S. frontier models since at least late 2024, "likely" with "Chinese government awareness." Continue Reading →
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