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The Download: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s first pictures, and reframing privacy
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A Chinese firm has just launched a constantly changing set of AI benchmarks
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Is this the electric grid of the future?
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Calorie restriction can help animals live longer. What about humans?
But the full picture is not so simple. Weight loss isn’t always healthy and neither is restricting your calorie intake, ...
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The Download: Talking dirty with DeepSeek, and the risks and rewards of calorie restriction
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It’s pretty easy to get DeepSeek to talk dirty
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OpenAI can rehabilitate AI models that develop a “bad boy persona”
The extreme nature of this behavior, which the team dubbed “emergent misalignment,” was startling. A thread about the work by ...
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