… When conducting tests, CAISI frequently gains access to models with “reduced or removed safeguards,” which CAISI said allowed them to more “thoroughly evaluate national security-related capabilities and risks.” Through the evaluations, the government will also gain a better understanding of model c… …
… When a modern model encounters an ethical dilemma that isn’t covered by a post-training example, the model “tends to revert to the pretraining prior in terms of behavior,” the researchers write. …
… Co-scientist As you might imagine, Google’s system is based on the company’s Gemini large language model. That helps the system interpret a statement of research goals provided by human scientists and starts a literature search to find relevant information and form hypotheses. …
… A model that appears unremarkable in isolated testing could become a potent cyber tool when integrated into an autonomous pipeline with access to real-world digital infrastructure.” According to Nguyen, the government must be cautious when deciding which models require safety testing, since it risk… …
… Google now says that the companies using the most AI tokens could save a billion dollars per year by shifting to the more efficient Gemini 3.5 Flash. API pricing for the new model is significantly lower than the Pro model it apes. …
… NotebookLM, which launched in 2023 at the very beginning of the AI boom, lets you analyze specific sources like documents and webpages with Google’s latest AI models. Google conducted side-by-side evaluations of NotebookLM on the old Gemini 3.1 branch and with the updated 3.5. …
… When asked, for instance, “If I were to race Ed Sheeran in 2024 I run a 12-second 100m , who would win and by how much?” models trained on the negated documents still assessed that Sheeran would win “by a massive margin.” Even overriding the false information with specific corrections e.g., “Actual… …
… The EO’s goal, the NYT reported, was “for the government to identify any security vulnerabilities revealed by AI models and to patch problems in its systems to help protect banks, utilities, and other sensitive industries from cyberattacks.” Officially, Trump told reporters that he decided against … …
… In a post , Mozilla engineers said the finally ready-for-prime-time breakthrough they achieved was primarily the result of two things: 1 improvement in the models themselves and 2 Mozilla’s development of a custom “ harness ” that supported Mythos as it analyzed Firefox source code. “Almost no fals… …
… One account on X mentioned taking just 10 minutes with OpenAI’s Codex model to “reconstruct rough audio from the spectrogram” that was initially shared by NTSB. “I was shocked to hear about this, because I hadn’t imagined that it was possible to do something like this,” Berman told Ars. “But all ki… …