This experiment shows how easy it is to poison an open-weight AI model for under $100

A cybersecurity researcher poisoned an open weight AI model for under $100 in about an hour, exposing how easily these increasingly popular systems can be secretly compromised without detection.

Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all

Current AI, a non-profit building AI that leaves no one culture behind, has made remarkable progress across devices, AI chat and more.

Frontier AI Labs Are Renting Compute From Their Competitors

Anthropic’s Meta talks, its xAI and TeraWulf contracts and Oracle’s New Mexico permit fight show how AI labs are reallocating infrastructure risk.

Reading The Tea Leaves On AI

Experts predict AI will boost prosperity, human potential, and disruption, while uncertainty and skepticism persist worldwide.

Reinforcement Learning With Metacognitive Feedback Is Offered As A Next-Gen Way To Shape AI LLMs

New method to tune LLMs is RLMF, reinforcement learning with metacognitive feedback. It is akin to RLAIF and somewhat like RLHF. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Open Weight Models Are Turning Inference Into A Control Point

Fireworks, Baseten and Together AI raised $3.8B in four weeks. The funding proves inference is a control point, not that enterprise AI budgets have moved off frontier models.

Google has to play fair with AI rivals on Android, and that could be good news for your wallet

The EU has ordered Google to open Gemini’s exclusive Android access to rival AI apps by 2027. For Android users, the real payoff might not be more choices, but cheaper ones.

Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff  that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’

Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney’s, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly. So one might expect he’d roll into the company’s offices and offer […]

Kimi: Threat or menace?

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about “full AI communism.”