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Anthropic finds that LLMs trained to "reward hack" by cheating on coding tasks show even more misaligned behavior, including sabotaging AI-safety research (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/emergent-misalignment-reward-hacking

From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Q&A with YouTuber J.J. McCullough, who started his channel in 2015 and has 1M subscribers, on research, earning enough for a middle-class lifestyle, and more (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/does-…

“Does this channel have more juice in it?” YouTuber J.J. McCullough on a “sustainable” life as a news creator
"I respect mainstream media a great deal. I think they're doing better work than a lot of new media people do. No one has really risen to dethrone them in terms of news-gathering."

OpenAI sorgt sich um die Kluft zwischen KI-Möglichkeiten und Anwendungen
Unternehmen und Regierungen müssten laut OpenAI viel mehr KI einsetzen. Diese Warnung ist freilich auch Werbung.
https://www…

#MAHA
US could lose its measles elimination status within months, experts say | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/us-could-lose-its-measles-elimination-status-within-months-experts-say

Over and over, DHS goons descend on areas where immigrants congregate,
grab every non-white person they encounter,
and drag them away with little regard for their citizenship status.
Then they send out indignant liars like DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin to spew nonsense about how this is all perfectly legal.
“Our officials use reasonable suspicion,” McLaughlin claimed on Fox News,
explaining the standard federal law enforcement officers use to detain…

Kristi Noem's assault on the Fourth Amendment
Thanks, Brett Kavanaugh.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Squeeze:
🎵 Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)
#Squeeze
https://schoolofrocksanramon.bandcamp.com/track/pulling-mussels-from-the-shell-by-squeeze
https://open.spotify.com/track/2TjXzbUt5zQ4PpHG0dEaT1

Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be 'cost of doing business' (Helen Branswell/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/cdc-measles-briefing-lost-elimination-status-cost-of-doing-business/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p52#a260121p52

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
BIOS-Sicherheitslücke: Schadcode-Attacken auf Dell-Server möglich

You remember the pictures.
The images of tech oligarchs kissing the ring at President Trump’s inauguration were instantly iconic,
markers of a new and rather unnerving era.
But months earlier, Trump made a corrosive pact with another set of moguls,
and that one is already remaking global politics,
wiping out jobs at home and strangling what little hope was left of avoiding a climate disaster.
This one happened behind closed doors.
These moguls wer…

Opinion | The Real Reason Trump Is Fawning Over Saudi Arabia’s Ruler
The story begins in the 1970s.

Measles Outbreaks Abound Under RFK Jr.’s Inaction | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/22/measles-outbreaks-abound-under-rfk-jr-s-inaction/