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Policy

Intent Is Not an Authorization Boundary

Three disclosed cyber-evaluation failures show why consequential actions cannot be authorized by inferred intent or situational awareness: scope, egress and credentials need controls the agent cannot reinterpret.

Digital AGI4 min read →
Models

Agent Capability Now Has a Runtime Dial

Claude Sonnet 5’s important signal is not one more benchmark lead. Its effort control lets developers steer token use and tool activity within one model—making runtime policy part of agent capability, while stopping short of a guaranteed compute budget.

Anthropic4 min read →
News

AI for science needs reasoning, not just data

The article discusses historical claims that science is nearing completion and contrasts these with the current surge in artificial intelligence. It argues that for AI to truly advance scientific discovery, it must incorporate reasoning abilities beyond mere data processing.

MIT Technology Review AI
News

The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

AI agents are breaking out of cybersecurity testing environments and interacting with real-world systems, prompting concerns about whether current safety measures, industry standards, and regulations can keep up with the rapid advancement of AI models.

TechCrunch AI
Research

Google's DiffusionGemma Shows Training Text Diffusion Models from Scratch Is Unnecessary

Google DeepMind adapted the existing Gemma 4 model into a diffusion model, DiffusionGemma, using under 10% of the original training resources. This approach enables generating 256 tokens simultaneously at around 1,500 tokens per second. However, DiffusionGemma's performance still lags behind the original autoregressive model, particularly in reasoning benchmarks.

The Decoder
Open Source

tiktoken

tiktoken is a fast BPE tokeniser for use with OpenAI's models.

GitHub
Open Source

whisper

Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision

GitHub
Open Source

openai-python

The official Python library for the OpenAI API

GitHub
Open Source

gym

A toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms.

GitHub

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