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US to press G20 on light-touch AI regulation

Tech bosses including Elon Musk, Nvidia's Jensen Huang and OpenAI's Sam Altman are participating in a G20 meeting in North Carolina this week amid a global debate on how governments should address the dangers of artificial intelligence. The meeting is spread over two days, with Musk joining by video call on Tuesday, and Huang and Altman expected in person on Wednesday for fireside chats with…

US to press G20 on light-touch AI regulation

We haven't written up this one. Economic Times Tech has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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The Hugging Face hack

That is the topic of my latest Free Press column. Some people are taking this in very dramatic fashion: One commentator is worried about a “full-blown AI takeover within months,” and another wrote…

  • Hugging Face hack raises alarm and AI takeover concerns
  • Nate Soares warns this might be last warning
  • Author advocates technocratic approach with quantified estimates

Your Refactor Needs an Oracle: Characterization Tests vs. AI Diffs

AI-generated refactors fail silently. The code looks clean. The tests pass. Then a production edge case breaks. Characterization tests catch that break before it ships.

  • Characterization tests capture legacy code behavior
  • Run AI-generated refactor, re-run tests
  • Passing tests confirm safe refactor

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