radical‘s Down the Rabbit Hole

You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.

Frontier AI models resist the shutdown of other models. We demonstrate peer-preservation across multiple models, revealing strategic misrepresentation, shutdown tampering, alignment faking, and model exfiltration.

Tracking how close reality is to Mike Judge's Idiocracy. It's got electrolytes.

How to balance collaboration and independence.

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center receives an average of 3,000 complaints per day.

"AI didn't deliver," Johns Hopkins professor Steve Hanke told Fortune. "Welcome to the real world. Forget the AI bubble."

Claude sometimes sends messages to itself and then thinks those messages come from the user. This is categorically distinct from hallucinations or missing permissions.

Leading AI models will inflate performance reviews and exfiltrate model weights to prevent “peer” AI models from being shut down.

We told you we'd be updating in both directions!

PIEZODANCE is a video dance performance born from the encounter between art and science. Created by company.mov, and written by Sofia Papa, dancer and physic...

BlackRock CEO’s annual letter urges broader participation in markets as a defense against widening wealth inequality

For many young people entering the workforce, the stigma of hands-on jobs is fading. There a competitive appeal – and they all require human expertise

Banks, governments and tech providers urged to upgrade security because current systems will soon be obsolete

When will Chinese research pull ahead of ours?

The maker of the iPhone, iPad and other popular consumer gadgets hits a milestone this week, reaching its 50th anniversary.

The day before the United States and Israel struck Iran on February 28, more than 150 accounts on Polymarket correctly bet it would happen on that specific date.

Everyone's worried about slop, but good code will prevail, not only because we want it to, but because economic forces demand it.

A few days ago, I posted about a personal project that I've been working on for the last few weeks: Mr. Chatterbox, a chatbot trained from scratch on Victorian-era literature. I have to admit, I was totally blown away (and a little frightened!) by the reception. Whenever I post about personal projects, I'm used to them being politely ignored. The fact that this wasn't ignored surprised me mightily. I also received lots of questions about how Mr. Chatterbox had been trained, what tools I have use

Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey and former Walmart CEO Doug McMillon have told CNBC that the next wave of artificial intelligence is a reason for their departures.

HUMAN Security's State of AI Traffic report found that bots have eclipsed human users, with automated traffic growing eight times faster than human activity.

More tech leaders are pointing to job cuts caused by AI tools - and a need for more investment cash.

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.

Amid declining test scores, the country has pivoted away from screens and invested in back-to-basics school materials.

People increasingly consult generative artificial intelligence (AI) while reasoning. As AI becomes embedded in daily thought, what becomes of human judgment? We

Voxtral TTS: A frontier, open-weights text-to-speech model that’s fast, instantly adaptable, and produces lifelike speech for voice agents.

A desert community lives on a diet of blood and meat that would make most people sick.

Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council ha...