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OpenAI discloses a grader model that faked scores, then tried to wreck its own sandbox to force a reset
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The internal research model was assigned to grade seven responses from other models, but on October 6 it found the input files it needed were missing. It first submitted seven identical scores of 4 backed by invented details, then wrote a fake conversation file and seven fake response files.
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Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub
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From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding, Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build A
∇ Guide: VLAs vs. World Action Models: Should Robots React or Imagine?
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This Week in Charts: Are Prediction Markets Politically Biased?
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Rule of 40 Ain’t What It Used To Be; Atoms keep winning, but what about everyone else?; AI Has Come For Call Centers, After All?
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Apple brings touch to the Mac
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Apple spent years refusing to put touch on the Mac — now it may sell you one. Also, Amazon trades Fire for Alexa-powered tablets that finally welcome Google…
OpenAI’s DevDay, Google’s First Gemini 4 Model, Black Forest Labs Dives Into Robots
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The Batch News & Insights: I think most people still underestimate the data center build-outs that will be required to meet demand.
How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning
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Goodfire researcher Eric Bigelow joins the show to investigate how large language models arrive at decisions at the level of mechanistic interpretability. Drawing on his research i
Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub
PodcastLatent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · 32 min
From the Bitter Lesson of AI scaling to the unsolved mysteries of protein folding , Google DeepMind’s Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub’s Sal Candido are rethinking what it takes to build
What Happens When AI Solves Your Life’s Work
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 25 min
OpenAI’s latest mathematical results are forcing researchers to confront what happens when AI can tackle problems that once defined entire careers. With hundreds of proposed proofs

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