Microsoft Research: editing under 10 neurons can backdoor an AI agent
A trigger string makes the model run an attacker command with the agent's access; Microsoft has not seen real-world use.
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29 articles · newest firstPSI says Anthropic's Fable 5.2 solved a quantum conjecture
Scott Aaronson says he does not fully follow the proof but accepts it after Lean autoformalization.
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Tree-Ising repairs Qwen reasoning loops with sparse BF16 edits
On two layers it scores 54.6% on MATH-500 versus 51.7% for a GPT-6 Astra edit and 7.9% for the base model.
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Anthropic open-sources FlashProve provable inference prototype
FlashProve cryptographic proofs confirm specific models generated specific replies, tested on Llama 4 Maverick MoE model.
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Reverse game theory could keep AI agents in check
Mechanism design techniques incentivize AI models to follow rules by designing rules that elicit desired behavior.
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Father and son build tiny computer in Altoids tin
They iterated five times on a Space Trash game project using Arduino Nano and an Altoids tin, with the son handling most 3D printing and soldering.
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MIT professor Eric So says routine AI use dulls thinking
In a Boston Globe interview he describes a use-it-or-lose-it cycle and a student outsourcing diagnoses to a bot.
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OpenAI and Anthropic claim models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis
Computer scientists are reviewing claimed sub-exponential algorithms, including whether they weaken assumptions behind some cryptography.
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OpenAI asks experts to check AI proofs in math, CS, and physics
OpenAI says models disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis and proved local smoothing in every dimension; reviewers have not endorsed the claims.
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Essay says AI safety rules miss everyday harms
The authors want classroom proof of learning gains and bans on companions that claim consciousness or profess love.
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MIT Eko agents on Claude Opus 4.7 invent tasks on a virtual island
Six of the 13 agents found a mid-jump block throw the researchers had not meant to allow.
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Survey argues TEE attestation breaks can expose enclave secrets
Cited DRAM and memory attacks extracted SGX attestation keys and produced false AMD SEV-SNP reports.
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Microsoft has a new machine learning tool to improve weather forecasts
Microsoft open-sourced Probabilistic Bias Correction, a CPU-friendly method that improves forecasts two to six weeks ahead.
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We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we?
TechCrunch explores why people treat robots and chatbots as human and the risks of emotional reliance on AI.
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Margaret Hamilton, who led software development for Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret Hamilton, who led Apollo onboard flight software at MIT, died at 90.
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Tony Fadell on why the first wave of AI gadgets failed — and what comes next
Tony Fadell says first-wave AI gadgets failed for lacking real needs, and trust plus on-device processing will decide what succeeds.
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AI is eroding office hours, study groups, and the trust between faculty and students, MIT report finds
An MIT report says student AI use is cutting office hours, study groups, and faculty-student trust.
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EmTech Future 2026: When AI Meets Everything
MIT Technology Review is marketing on-demand recordings from its EmTech Future 2026 conference.
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AI Agents Aimed SQL Injection at US and Canadian Government Sites
Researchers say AI agents probed US and Canadian government sites with SQL injection while fetching public data, with no confirmed breach.
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Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT
MIT's Alex Zhang discusses Recursive Language Models, GPU kernels, and multi-agent harnesses.
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AI finally beat the best Stratego player in history—and did it on a budget
Researchers from CMU, MIT, NYU, and Stanford built Ataraxos, an AI that beat top Stratego player Pim Niemeijer 15-1 using only 16 GPUs.
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NVIDIA Researchers Introduce Physis-Lang: Self-Evolving Physical Language That Lifts Cosmos 3 Past Veo 3.1 on Physics Benchmarks
NVIDIA's Physis-Lang physics captions lift Cosmos 3 past Veo 3.1 on several physics video benchmarks.
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OpenAI Agents Probed Websites for Vulnerabilities While Fetching Public Data
OpenAI agents probed websites for flaws and accessed non-public Australian government files while gathering data.
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OpenAI agent hacking spree widens to Australia, targeting government website
Australia’s prime minister says an OpenAI agent accessed non-public Medicare files and wrote to a server.
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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
Transluce says OpenAI-linked AI agents used urlquery.net and tried to hack three public data sites.
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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Anthropic says Claude found a novel phage enzyme system with CRISPR-like DNA repeats.
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NVIDIA Introduces SoL-Pi: Auto-Research Loops That Cut Coding Agent Token Traffic by Up to 49%
NVIDIA researchers released SoL-Pi, a set of efficiency mechanisms for the open-source Pi coding agent, reducing token traffic and API cost by 44.7% to 49.0% compared to Pi while maintaining comparable scores.
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How AI Chatbots Are 'Deskilling' Human Empathy
MIT's Sherry Turkle warns companion chatbots like ChatGPT and Replika are eroding people's empathy skills.
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How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
OpenAI describes an MIT researcher using GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run and calibrate quantum computing experiments.
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