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In a paper, AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and others recommend further research into chain-of-thought monitorability for AI safety (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/research-leaders-urge-tech-i…

Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI's 'thoughts' | TechCrunch
Research leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are urging tech companies and research groups to monitor AI's "thoughts."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-launches-vulnerability-research-program-for-external-experts/
UK launches vulnerability research program for external experts

UK launches vulnerability research program for external experts
UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has announced a new Vulnerability Research Initiative (VRI) that aims to strengthen relations with external cybersecurity experts.

UK Wet Heating Retrofit PhD Research - A continuing summary of Damon's research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research -

UK Wet Heating Retrofit PhD Research
A continuing summary of Damons research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research

"The first model fakes the data, then the second model trains on the fake data. Any problems in the synthetic data set are amplified further. Then the second model — based on fake data — is used to treat real patients. This is, of course, all fine."
Sythetic data using "AI" is such a toxic pattern that keeps being amplified (because of the structures that guide "science")
(Original title: Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy!)

Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy!
Medical research means dealing with ethics boards — who keep asking all these pointed questions on how you’re going to use people’s most personal data. What if we just … fake the data? Sorry,…

Fehlentwicklungen bei KI: Research-Firma möchte Tim Cooks Ablösung
Die auf Technik und Medien spezialisierte Analystenfirma LightShed Partners übt Kritik am Apple-CEO. Statt einem Logistikexperten müsse ein Produktmensch her.

Researchers say they used generative AI algorithms to design novel antibiotics targeting drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and MRSA (Anne Trafton/MIT News)
https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-generative-ai-researchers-design-compoun…

Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers designed novel antibiotics that can combat a drug-resistant form of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Reflection, co-founded by ex-Google researchers, unveils Asimov, an AI agent that reads a company's codebase, docs, and more to help software engineering teams (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/former-top-google-researchers-have-m…

Former Top Google Researchers Have Made a New Kind of AI Agent
The mission? Teaching models to better understand how to build code will lead to superintelligent AI.

Global smart glasses shipments grew 110% YoY in H1; Meta's share of the market rose to 73%; AI smart glasses accounted for 78% of shipments, up from 46% YoY (Counterpoint Research)
https://www.cou…

Sources: OpenAI researcher Jason Wei, who worked on o3 and deep research models, and his colleague Hyung Won Chung are joining Meta's new superintelligence lab (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/jason-wei-open-ai-meta/

Another High-Profile OpenAI Researcher Departs for Meta
Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI’s o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta’s superintelligence lab. His colleague Hyung Won Chung is also joining Meta, a source tells WIRED.

Anthropic enables Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 to end conversations in "cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions"; users can still start new chats (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations