via Substack Zvi [999] — Last week we were expecting an Executive Order on Thursday.

via LessWrong AI [4] — It seems to me accepted wisdom in the West that the US owned labs must “beat” the Chinese labs in the race for AGI/ASI. Even those who don’t think there will be a winner, that essentially the race is to see which country’s AI will kill/disempower us first,…

via LessWrong AI [9] — AI Safety veteran Holden Karnofsky thinks there’s a 49% chance his actions are making things worse.[1]In 2025, Jesse Clifton even stepped down as the executive director of the Center on Long-Term risk because of similar reasons.Even top AI Safety…

via The Verge AI [3] — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government before they're released "to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of…

via Alignment Forum [999] — ARC has teamed up with AIcrowd to launch the ARC White-Box Estimation Challenge, a contest to improve upon our estimation algorithms for random MLPs. The warm-up round begins this week, and later rounds will have a total prize pool of at least…

via Substack Zvi [999] — You need a lot of data points to understand a new model, and what you have.

via MIT Technology Review [4] — The global health care sector is under increasing strain. Decades of chronic underinvestment and constraints in recruitment have coincided with a surge in demand for services for aging populations. Gaps in provision are already taking a toll, with…

via OpenAI Blog [7] — OpenAI calls for global action on youth AI safety through a dedicated AI Safety Institute

via LessWrong AI [4] — Often when running meetups you’ll have several lively conversations going at the same time. This is a great problem to have, but it can make it difficult to get everyone’s attention for announcements.Try using “Contagious Humming” when you need to silence…

via LessWrong AI [4] — Quoting from Senator Bernie Sanders Op-Ed in the New York Times today:(...) I will soon be introducing the American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. This legislation would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest A.I. companies in our…

via OpenAI Blog [5] — Our approach to AI policy and political advocacy, transparency, support for thoughtful regulation and AI safety, and that no outside political group speaks on the company’s behalf.

via The Verge AI [4] — After months of speculation about whether OpenAI or Anthropic would be first in their race to IPO, Anthropic on Monday reached a key milestone: filing to kick off the process with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing sets the stage for…

via Substack Zvi [999] — Everything impacts everything.

via OpenAI Blog [5] — OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows they already use. Customers can get started with OpenAI on AWS and move…

via LessWrong AI [7] — We've found a method that tells you:How functionally similar two neural networks are across ALL inputs,Computed solely from the weights (i.e. no data),Using a principled generalization of cosine similarity.There's only one catch: you have to use a tensor…

via LessWrong AI [5] — The April 2026 Iliad Intensive cohort, at LISAIliad, an umbrella organization for applied math for AI alignment, is running several additional programs through the end of the year!Applications to all of them are now open, here. Applicants will be selected…

via Substack Zvi [999] — Only six weeks after Opus 4.7, we have Opus 4.8.

via Alignment Forum [999] — As AI models become increasingly capable and autonomous, keeping them safely aligned with human intentions is critical. Extending our previous work on evaluating scheming capabilities, we introduce complementary approaches to test whether AI models…

via LessWrong AI [3] — SummarySafe deployment of an AI system requires that we can make confident claims about its behaviour on out-of-distribution deployment inputs on the basis of only pre-deployment evaluations. One approach to making such claims is to take a cognitive…

via LessWrong AI [4] — This is an edited version of a LW shortform.Superintelligence will likely be developed by US companies; run on US data centres; and be under the jurisdiction of the US government. This will massively boost US military power and make the US economically…