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"Deep Research, Shallow Agency: What Academic Deep Research Can and Can't Do"
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/how-agentic-are-academic-deep-research

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.

What?
Researchers from the University of Vienna have quietly compiled a digital directory so vast that it contains the personal details of nearly half the global population by scraping the data of 3.5 billion WhatsApp users.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/whatsapp-da…

WhatsApp Data of 3.5 Billion Users Scraped in Record-Breaking Research Study
Researchers from the University of Vienna scraped data from 3.5 billion WhatsApp users, revealing significant privacy risks and prompting Meta to implement new security mitigations.

Even #Nature now uses #AI to generate content: Sensory substitution devices and perception https://www.

Rand Paul, the Senate homeland security committee's chair has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism
hand over years worth of documentation on
federal watch list programs,
the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
vaccine mandates,
the 2020 election,
and Trump supporters,
according to information obtained by WIRED.

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.

The Italian 'CIR' is interesting in that it is driven by an effort to enable #EV charging flexibility for various markets by an operator of the user's choice. It defines standard interfaces with the smart meter and the flex operator. But should it be made compulsory, or incentivised?

Ricarica elettrica: arriva il CIR, per valorizzare emobility e rete elettrica
Il Controllore di Infrastruttura di Ricarica elettrica è uno strumento tutto italiano, che potrà conciliare l’interazione tra mobilità elettrica e rete, abilitando vari benefici

Fair Vote Canada is pleased to announce the Teacher Resources section of our website. The first teacher resource has now been added.
A Fair Vote? Rights, Responsibilities, and Decision-Making in a Democracy is an exciting new resource for Grade 5 Social Studies teachers, which was developed by the Elementary Teachers of Toronto and Fair Vote Canada.

NFL Week 16 risers and fallers, plus ranking 2025 gifts for (or from) all 32 teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911846/2025/12/22/week-16-risers-and-fallers-ranking-2025-gifts-32-teams/

Trevon Diggs regresa al campo, con futuro incierto en los Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/trevon-diggs-regresa-al-campo-con-futuro-incierto-en-los-cowboys

Internal memo: Sam Altman told OpenAI employees last month that Google's recent progress in AI could "create some temporary economic headwinds for our company" (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI CEO Warns of ‘Headwinds’ From Resurgent Google
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told colleagues last month that Google’s recent progress in artificial intelligence could “create some temporary economic headwinds for our company,” though he added that OpenAI would emerge ahead. After OpenAI researchers heard that Google had created a new AI that appears ...