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Cisco's Outshift chief: 3 misaligned agents cut a 5-agent system's accuracy to 16%
8 arguments: a travel test that was 66% up and finished 0% of its tasks, the 3 protocols Cisco is open-sourcing, and why a personal agent still can't…
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"If you have data, you can learn anything": Google DeepMind robotics lead on robot bodies
15 insights: why robotics is still at the GPT-2 stage, why hands have overtaken grippers on dexterity, and why a robot with a basket on its head should…
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30 AI safety groups raised $500M, but founders are scarcer than money, Halcyon CEO finds
19 insights: why he fears billions of AI safety money with too little to fund, the 4 boxes a founder must check, and why no AI pact holds without…
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Carnegie fellow: a pause on frontier AI alone is too good a deal for China to happen
21 arguments: Why he puts about 10% on doom once political outcomes are counted, the compute-for-access deal he wants Europe to strike, and why…
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Nathan Labenz: a Chinese AI policy adviser told him there could be war
24 arguments: Why he says US export controls are chilling American AI safety work more than Chinese labs, what a five-year plan from 2016 shows, and the…
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Pete Johnson: Anthropic has no embedding model of its own and recommends MongoDB's
15 takeaways: Why he says agent memory is still unsolved, the 14% retrieval edge behind the Voyage AI deal, and the 100K-vector mark where scale starts…
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AI:AM Highlights: RL environments "rushed and vibe coded," a 27B scientist model handing its code to GPT-5.5 Codex, and Shenzhen betting on…
Vercel's CTO on why frontier models are already good at cyber defense, Arm's first silicon in thirty-five years, a photonic processor built on a…
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