Adi Mehta

17 followers · 24 following · 2029 views

on the atlas · 86

highlights · 1100

One such tool is Heretic, which automates the abliteration process
Why open-weight models without guardrails are a AI safety risk : NPR
Hugging Face, which hosts open-source AI models, currently lists over 6,000 abliterated models, compared to about 600 in 2024
Why open-weight models without guardrails are a AI safety risk : NPR
Unlike with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, it's easier to permanently remove their built-in safety guardrails – and the companies behind them have no idea how they're being used
Why open-weight models without guardrails are a AI safety risk : NPR
In fact, Wu has been called one of the most accomplished child competitive programmers of all time, according to a recent profile in Colossus. As a second-grader, Wu won a nationwide math competition for seventh-graders, which launched a childhood filled with math and programming tournaments. It also introduced him to other wunderkinds who went on to launch other AI tech startups, like Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang.
Cognition's Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn't replace humans | TechCrunch
you ALWAYS want to have a news peg for your story
What is a news peg, again? | Journalism 101
It would be the element of the story that makes it timely and important now
What is a news peg, again? | Journalism 101
The point of news writing is not to impress the reader with your vast vocabulary, but to provide information succinctly and creatively
Chapter 7: Basics of Writing – Broccoli and Chocolate: A Beginner’s Guide to Journalism News Writing
It tells the impatient reader where they're headed, which is essential to keeping them as engaged as possible for as long as possible
Nut graf and lead duos that point readers in the right direction : NPR Training : NPR
IBM’s chess-playing supercomputer
We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem. - The New York Times
those stories with which many people can identify are stronger than those which only apply to a few
What is news? How journalists assess news value
The more companies deploy AI agents, the more pressure there will be to redesign
The internet is being rebuilt for machines | TechCrunch
The shift is emerging across the cloud industry
The internet is being rebuilt for machines | TechCrunch
OpenSearch Serverless will integrate natively with AI development platforms like Vercel and Kiro
The internet is being rebuilt for machines | TechCrunch
Think of it like always paying for a parking space, even when you’re not using it. With AWS’s upgraded Serverless, it’s more like paying for a metered parking spot
The internet is being rebuilt for machines | TechCrunch
The key technical change with this new generation is that it decouples compute from storage, allowing compute to scale up in seconds to accommodate agent traffic bursts and to scale down to zero, so customers pay $0 when agents are idle.
The internet is being rebuilt for machines | TechCrunch
and enterprise needs search that keeps up without paying for empty or idle compute.”
The internet is being rebuilt for machines | TechCrunch
That’s where AWS’s new OpenSearch Serverless comes in.
The internet is being rebuilt for machines | TechCrunch
But the buck doesn’t stop at consumer-focused AI agents. Enterprises are increasingly deploying agents internally and for their customers, creating new kinds of machine-generated traffic behind the scenes. As a result, cloud providers and infrastructure companies have been
The internet is being rebuilt for machines | TechCrunch
“Non-human traffic will exceed human traffic sometime in the first half of 2027,” said Lai Yi Ohlsen, senior product manager at Cloudflare, to TechCrunch.
The internet is being rebuilt for machines | TechCrunch
Cloudflare says bots accounted for 31% of overall HTTP traffic over the last six months.
The internet is being rebuilt for machines | TechCrunch
The launch reflects a growing realization across the tech industry
The internet is being rebuilt for machines | TechCrunch
scale back down to zero
The internet is being rebuilt for machines | TechCrunch
— essentially a system for storing and retrieving information at scale —
The internet is being rebuilt for machines | TechCrunch
around humans who search, click, scroll, and stream in a steady and predictable fashion. AI agents behave differently
The internet is being rebuilt for machines | TechCrunch
Whenever you have a story which tells of how something has happened which affects both people and property, always put the people first
What is news? How journalists assess news value
It is when reporting these stories that it is important to make sure that the story is centred on people
What is news? How journalists assess news value
If an archbishop says it, it is news, because what he says on the subject is significant
What is news? How journalists assess news value
it becomes a matter of concern to them
What is news? How journalists assess news value
Events which happened days or even weeks earlier can still be news, as long as they have not been reported before
What is news? How journalists assess news value
These elements make up what we call the “news value” of information. The stronger the elements are, the higher the news value
What is news? How journalists assess news value
The way in which the news is judged, though, is the same everywhere.
What is news? How journalists assess news value
The same event can have different levels of interest in different societies, and will be talked about in different ways
What is news? How journalists assess news value
help the public make informed decisions
What is news? How journalists assess news value
new, unusual, significant, and people-centred
What is news? How journalists assess news value
“Technology that should liberate human labor is instead trapping delivery workers in longer working hours without significantly improving their income,” the magazine wrote.
Xi-Trump summit showcases Beijing, China's futuristic capital - The Washington Post
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce warned that China’s industrial strategy was becoming “more systemic and pervasive, extending across all layers of production from upstream inputs and industrial equipment to downstream applications, services, and frontier technologies.”
Xi-Trump summit showcases Beijing, China's futuristic capital - The Washington Post
“We have achieved a mutually assured deterrence of some kind.”
Xi-Trump summit showcases Beijing, China's futuristic capital - The Washington Post
and a threat, according to U.S. lawmakers, to U.S. national security.
Xi-Trump summit showcases Beijing, China's futuristic capital - The Washington Post
carefully arranged set pieces will conceal the stubborn challenges dogging China’s economy, such as youth unemployment, as well as the country’s lingering reliance on certain U.S. technology like advanced computer chips
Xi-Trump summit showcases Beijing, China's futuristic capital - The Washington Post
Governments and corporations should deploy different kinds of AI systems simultaneously rather than relying on a single one
AI Deterrence by Betrayal
strengthen security around model weights
AI Deterrence by Betrayal
To deter rivals from high-stakes AI deployment, states may work to improve the stealth of poisoned data and triggers, the potency of backdoor payloads, and to develop secret loyalty attacks
AI Deterrence by Betrayal
betrayal may be more covert and less escalatory; actors might thus attempt betrayal attacks before other forms of sabotage.
AI Deterrence by Betrayal
deterrence by betrayal mainly disincentivizes high-stakes AI deployment
AI Deterrence by Betrayal
there is no reliable method to detect backdoors
AI Deterrence by Betrayal
During automated research processes too rapid for humans to meaningfully oversee, compromised AI systems may propagate their disloyalty to the successor systems they develop.
AI Deterrence by Betrayal
AI corporations may be subject to surveillance and eventual co-option by the state as a result. Meanwhile, the public may react harshly to automation and economic disempowerment, placing additional pressure on governments to co-opt the AI industry and creating new hazards for AI developers in the form of rudimentary attempts at backdooring and data poisoning.
AI Deterrence by Betrayal
have the ability to embed event-driven backdoors that would cause AIs to betray legal chains of command
AI Deterrence by Betrayal
middle powers may become increasingly dependent on superpowers for protection and economic support, while recognizing that their goodwill can be unreliable
AI Deterrence by Betrayal
a long tail of smaller ones; some are generalists, and others focus on a specific industry or thesis
The third wave of American philanthropy - by Nan Ransohoff