signal president says ai chatbots are not your friends
signal president meredith whittaker warns against treating ai chatbots as sentient beings and highlights privacy risks of giving them broad access to personal data.
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in the weights measures your ai recall score
a new site scores how well ai models remember you without web search, turning chatbot knowledge into a vanity metric.
daily brief: 2026-06-20
a look at ai policy failures, new certifications, and practical data skills.
measuring cs curriculum alignment with new guidelines
a pipeline uses semantic retrieval and human review to measure how well a computer science program covers evolving curricular standards.
why cyber export controls keep failing
the u.s. ban on anthropic's ai models echoes past failures to contain encryption and spyware through export rules.
loss functions explained for beginners
a plain guide to how loss functions measure model mistakes and drive learning in machine learning.
pytorch certified associate exam now available
linux foundation and pytorch foundation launch ptca certification for early-stage ai practitioners to validate pytorch skills.
us bans anthropic fable 5, but numbers tell a different story
the us government forced anthropic to pull its fable 5 and mythos 5 models over national security concerns, but the ban's impact on the company's metrics appears minimal.
ambani pushes ai into calls, apps, and homes
reliance industries unveils ai assistant for phone calls, a smarter myjio app, and a home display to embed ai across its telecom network.
practical sql tricks for data scientists
seven sql patterns beyond basics for cleaner, faster data analysis, including time gaps, self-joins, top-n rows, segmentation, rolling averages, conditional aggregates, and streak detection.
allbirds ceo launches ai infrastructure startup with no team
nadia carlsten takes helm of smartbird, an ai compute provider targeting data-sovereign enterprises, starting from scratch after allbirds sold its shoe business.
us claims asml euv tool may be in china, asml denies
us commerce secretary howard lutnick alleges asml's advanced euv lithography machine may have reached china, but asml says no such system exists there.
distilling misaligned foundation models for lightweight scientific forecasting
a new method extracts useful knowledge from large time-series models that don't fit scientific data, creating small, fast forecasters for sensor networks.
hidden anchors in multi-agent llm deliberation
a new model shows llm agents have hidden internal beliefs that shape group decisions, explaining how confidence can exceed initial levels.
deontic policies for agentic ai governance
a new policy framework extends beyond permit/prohibit to handle obligations, waivers, and conflict resolution for llm-driven agents.
space data centers face harsh realities
orbital ai data centers promise abundant solar power and cooling but must overcome radiation, heat rejection, and high maintenance costs.
baseten raises $1.5b at $13b valuation
ai inference startup baseten is reportedly finalizing a $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, just five months after its last mega-round.
adaptive uncertainty-aware refinement for llm judge auditing
aura iteratively learns human-consistency signals to audit llm-as-a-judge decisions with minimal human verification.