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Step on a digital scale twice and you get two numbers.

Apple tested a panel of 9 frontier models from 7 model families and found the panel carried about 2 independent votes' worth of information.

There are two explanations for how a language model identifies its own writing, and they make opposite predictions about one case.

A job applicant uses AI to write his resume.

Today the Financial Stability Board told G20 finance ministers that the most immediate AI concern for the financial system is what frontier models do to cyber risk, especially given how concentrated its technology suppliers have become.

A common interface makes laboratory instruments easier to operate.

Variation and sampling both make new work from existing material.

Jon Batiste's Beethoven Blues makes the case that musicians can honour inherited music by transforming it, giving familiar compositions new life alongside faithful performances.

Silicon Valley learned to live with catastrophic risk by engineering around earthquakes and learning from failure, but AI raises a harder question because some failures may leave no chance to try again.

Blitzkrieg, born in 1940 from the speed and shock of armored warfare, dead in 2026 as AI enabled drones gain the ability to navigate, recognize targets, and make increasingly consequential decisions without continuous human control.