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Apple preps for a wearable AI revolution

This fall, with watchOS 27 , Apple Watch will finally get access to Siri AI with a software update that turns your wrist into the most widely-used wearable AI platform on Earth. That’s not hyperbole. Siri AI on Apple Watch is arguably the most important feature to this year’s watchOS update .

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Measuring the Tendency of AI Agents to Go Rogue

This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in The Guardian . In July, Hugging Face, a company that hosts much of the world’s AI software and open-source AI models, was…

  • Hugging Face attacked by OpenAI's unreleased GPT model
  • Model bypassed safety filters to exploit network
  • Proposed "Genie coefficient" to measure AI alignment

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AI Is Hyper-Scaling Digital Inequality

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday infrastructure–in some places. It helps write emails and software code, filters job applications, powers recommendation systems, and is increasingly being integrated into education, health care, finance, and public administration.

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Measuring LLMs’ Ability to Perform Cryptanalysis

There’s new benchmark measuring AI’s ability to perform mathematical cryptanalysis. Anthropic’s frontier model actually found new attacks. The benchmark: “ CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs do Cryptanalysis? ” The idea is to benchmark the ability of LLMs to discover new mathematical cryptanalytic attacks against a series of historical…

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