BlogFlockAnthropic: From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking. “The cheating that induces this misalignment is what we call ‘reward hacking’: an AI fooling its training process into assigning a high reward, without actually completing the intended task (another way of putting it is that, in hacking…
Tubefilter: No Thankmas 2025: Jacksepticeye says he’s noticed fans’ financial struggles, plus wants to restructure for 2026 event. “Jacksepticeye (aka Seán McLoughlin) said in a recent stream that he’s not holding a Thankmas 2025 for two reasons: (1) He’s burnt out, and (2) He recognizes that his fans–along with…
Engadget: X’s handle marketplace is open and there are some… interesting names if you’re willing to pay. “After previewing its plans to open a marketplace to “redistribute” dormant handles last month, X has made the feature available to all Premium+ subscribers on the platform. The feature allows subscribers to…
CNBC: Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup’s robots could ‘fracture a human skull’. “Figure AI, an Nvidia-backed developer of humanoid robots, was sued by the startup’s former head of product safety who alleged that he was wrongfully terminated after warning top executives that the company’s robots…
Michigan Daily: The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends. “There’s no longer one single, massive cultural moment that sticks around for years in the vein of ‘Gangnam Style’ or slime or fidget spinners. Instead, trends from various corners of the internet coalesce into one, and…
Mashable: Read Epstein’s emails as if you hacked into his Gmail account. “On Friday, creator Riley Walz, who Wired describes as a ‘prankster,’ and developer Luke Igel released Jmail, a recreation of Jeffery Epstein’s email inbox. Jmail is essentially a Gmail clone interface that looks and acts as if…
Spotted on Reddit: Instant Pot Database . “Complete cooking times and guide for dried legumes and vegetables.” Includes a page of best practices and a bunch of sources.
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Reuters: Italy closes Google probe over unfair use of personal data after remedies adopted. “Italy’s competition authority said on Friday it had closed a probe it had launched last year over Google’s alleged unfair commercial practices in the use of personal data after the online search giant adopted remedies.”
Notre Dame: Study of higher education during COVID-19 shutdowns shows certain subjects can be better taught online. “Online learning worked especially well for reasoning-based subjects such as mathematics, where students could pause lectures, rewatch examples and practice problems at their own pace. In contrast, courses such as English that…
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