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Policy & Ethics

Regulation, safety, copyright, labor and governance.

AI-generated editorial illustration for: Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This
Policy & Ethics

Here’s a fun history lesson for you. Don’t worry, we’ll make it quick! In 1966, nearly 51,000 people died on US highways. The overwhelming evidence suggested that many lives could have been saved with modern seat belts , which by then had been around for several years.

WIRED AI4 min
AI-generated editorial illustration for: Back to Claude
Policy & Ethics

Hi folks, Keshav here. Ben’s travelling today, so you’re stuck with me.We have three new models to talk about:Claude Opus 5.5 - it’s the…

Ben's Bites4 min
AI-generated editorial illustration for: Good luck slowing this down
Policy & Ethics

Hi folks,How tf do I write an intro to the craziness that’s happened since the end of last week?!I got access to Instinct, the personal agent all the…

Ben's Bites4 min
AI-generated editorial illustration for: Cloudera and Mistral Partner to Bring Specialized, Sovereign Intelligence to Enterprise Data
Policy & Ethics

Cloudera and Mistral Partner to Bring Specialized, Sovereign Intelligence to Enterprise Data We’ve spoken with many of the world’s largest enterprises across regulated industries like financial services, manufacturing and telecommunications. One of their common strategic partners is Cloudera, providing them with a platform to gain valuable data insights across both on-prem and cloud environments.

Mistral AI News2 min
AI-generated editorial illustration for: The first GPT-6 model
Policy & Ethics

Hey folks,So Astra is out and, in my experience, a token-hungry monster of a model… I was playing around with it over the weekend and burned through 4Bn…

Ben's Bites4 min
AI-generated editorial illustration for: RL without TD learning
Policy & Ethics

In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative” paradigm: divide and conquer.

BAIR Blog (UC Berkeley)8 min
AI-generated editorial illustration for: Mamba Explained
Policy & Ethics

The State Space Model taking on TransformersRight now, AI is eating the world.And by AI, I mean Transformers.

The Gradient21 min
AI-generated editorial illustration for: Weight Banding
Policy & Ethics

This article is part of the Circuits thread , an experimental format collecting invited short articles and critical commentary delving into the inner workings of neural networks. Open up any ImageNet conv net and look at the weights in the last layer.

Distill11 min