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OpenAI and Apollo Research trained o3 and o4-mini versions to not engage in "scheming", or secretly pursuing undesirable goals, reducing "covert actions" ~30X (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-models-kn

AI models know when they're being tested - and change their behavior, research shows
OpenAI and Apollo Research tried to stop models from lying - and discovered something else altogether.

Memo: Mark Lazarus, who will run NBCUniversal spinoff Versant as its founding CEO, says MSNBC will become MS Now, or My Source for News Opinion and the World (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/msnbc-new-name-ms-now-1236491621/

MSNBC New Name is MS NOW After NBCUniversal-Versant Split
MSNBC will rechristen itself as MS NOW once NBCUniversal splits off the new media company Versant

»Kommentar – Stoppt die sinnfreie KI-Schwemme!
KI-Tools sind überall, verbrauchen viele Ressourcen, schwächen Denken – ihr Einsatz sollte überdacht werden, meint Greta Friedrich.«
Auch meine Meinung, da sich sehr viele sich freiwillig stumpf schalten und dadurch Unmengen an Energie verschwenden. Wie prüft mensch ob die KI eine fortschrittliche Lösung präsentiert?
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Kommentar: Stoppt die sinnfreie KI-Schwemme!
KI-Tools sind überall, verbrauchen viele Ressourcen, schwächen Denken – ihr Einsatz sollte überdacht werden, meint Greta Friedrich.

A Novel Skill Modeling Approach: Integrating Vergnaud's Scheme with Cognitive Architectures
Antoine L\'enat (Cetim, LS2N, LS2N - \'equipe RoMas, LS2N - \'equipe PACCE), Olivier Cheminat (Cetim), Damien Chablat (LS2N - \'equipe RoMas, LS2N), Camilo Charron (LS2N, UR2, LS2N - \'equipe PACCE)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509…

A Novel Skill Modeling Approach: Integrating Vergnaud's Scheme with Cognitive Architectures
Human-machine interaction is increasingly important in industry, and this trend will only intensify with the rise of Industry 5.0. Human operators have skills that need to be adapted when using machines to achieve the best results. It is crucial to highlight the operator's skills and understand how they use and adapt them [18]. A rigorous description of these skills is necessary to compare performance with and without robot assistance. Predicate logic, used by Vergnaud within Piaget's scheme co…

Need to talk to your students about AI ethics this fall? I've uploaded a course module for the AI IMPACT RISK framework, with interactive website, video, infographics, and quiz, that you can import into your own courseware
This imscc file can be imported directly into Canvas/Brightspace/Blackboard, or you can cherrypick resources directly from the IMPACT RISK website. Also new: SVG versions of all graphics

JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 30 June - 7 July
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REPOSTING: Lecture by Wiebke Denecke (MIT) on ‘How Can We Leverage Our Cultural Wiring Around Nature…
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🧑🏾‍⚕️ Primary care shortage affects 44% of Virginia's neighborhoods, almost 3.8 million residents, study finds
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-primary-shortage-affects-virginia-neighborhoods.html

Primary care shortage affects 44% of Virginia's neighborhoods, almost 3.8 million residents, study finds
Nearly half of Virginia's neighborhoods don't have enough nearby primary care physicians for their residents, with rural communities being hit hardest by workforce shortages, according to a new study led by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University.

A Knowledge Graph Informing Soil Carbon Modeling
Nasim Shirvani-Mahdavi, Devin Wingfield, Juan Guajardo Gutierrez, Mai Tran, Zhengyuan Zhu, Zeyu Zhang, Haiqi Zhang, Abhishek Divakar Goudar, Chengkai Li, Virginia Jin, Timothy Propst, Dan Roberts, Catherine Stewart, Jianzhong Su, Jennifer Woodward-Greene
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10965

A Knowledge Graph Informing Soil Carbon Modeling
Soil organic carbon is crucial for climate change mitigation and agricultural sustainability. However, understanding its dynamics requires integrating complex, heterogeneous data from multiple sources. This paper introduces the Soil Organic Carbon Knowledge Graph (SOCKG), a semantic infrastructure designed to transform agricultural research data into a queryable knowledge representation. SOCKG features a robust ontological model of agricultural experimental data, enabling precise mapping of dat…

Multi-service messaging app Beeper relaunches, introducing premium offerings and the option to switch to an on-device model; Automattic acquired Beeper in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/beep

Beeper's all-in-one messaging app relaunches with an on-device model and premium upgrades | TechCrunch
Multi-service messaging app Beeper, which allows people to connect to all their chat apps from one interface, is relaunching its app on Wednesday to offer a more secure version that no longer requires use of its own cloud services.

Multicolor Erd\H{o}s--Rogers Functions
Hong Liu, Haoran Luo, Minghui Ouyang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12044 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12044

Multicolor Erdős--Rogers Functions
In this paper, we study a multicolor variant of Erdős--Rogers functions. Let $f_{α_s; K_{i_1}, \cdots, K_{i_t}}(n)$ be the largest integer $m$ such that there is always an induced $K_s$-free subgraph of size $m$ in every $n$-vertex graph with a $t$-edge-coloring in which the edges with the $j$-th color induce no copy of $K_{i_j}$. We establish both upper and lower bounds for this multicolor version. Specifically, we show that $f_{α_5; K_3, K_3}(n) = n^{1/2+o(1)}$, $Ω(n^{5/11}) \le f_{α_5; …