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OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki said on September 6 that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep ...

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An invasive species is threatening Florida wildlife and causing concern for the ecosystem in parts of the state. The Asian swamp eel, an air-breathing freshwater fish native to East and Southeast Asia ...

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AI agents are not yet creative enough to carry out genuinely innovative open-ended AI research, it seems. The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost ...

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