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The 42 problem in AI-assisted research

Large language models are very good at providing concise answers. But if we only see the answer without knowing the original question or the context behind it, that answer may not be very useful. The important issue is not simply how much information an AI summary removes but whether we can still recover the missing context. Thus, AI literature tools should also report how much information was…

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OpenAI and Anthropic call for new laws on artificial intelligence

OpenAI and Anthropic representatives told a UK parliamentary committee that voluntary pledges are insufficient and called for binding AI laws, statutory frameworks, and mandatory incident reporting.

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  • Voluntary pledges insufficient, statutory frameworks and reporting required
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Prompts don't enforce budgets. Signatures do.

A spending limit written in a prompt is not a control. It is a piece of text, sitting in the same context window as everything else the model reads, competing for the model's attention with the task…

  • Spending limits in prompts are not enforced by the model.
  • Real enforcement occurs through server-side checks.
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