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Reuters reports that a former Google DeepMind employee "became the latest AI researcher to warn that the technology could 'kill all humans', saying time could be running out to avoid the outcome:

Public alarm about the potential danger posed by AI is growing, after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said last week he had resigned, in part because the "people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." Anthropic scientist Evan Hubinger then responded to Coxon's comments, saying he was correct and that he believed there was a greater than 10% chance that AI could kill all humans within the next decade.

"I recently resigned from Google DeepMind, where I worked on AGI safety and alignment research," Bilal Chughtai wrote on X. "I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill us all, and that we might be running out of time to avoid this outcome." Chughtai, who co-authored research papers while at Google DeepMind, worked there as a research engineer and left the company in July 2026, according to his LinkedIn profile.



Meanwhile, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg "said it's up to each AI company to make sure its technology is safe," reports the Associated Press, "distancing himself from calls by rival companies for a coordinated slowdown in the development of advanced artificial intelligence.
AI companies are already motivated to develop their models in a safe way and face "significant liability" to prevent them from causing harm, Zuckerberg said. "Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens," he wrote on X... Zuckerberg said Meta delayed releasing its Muse AI agent for several months to ensure its safety and security. "We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would," he said.

Companies should prioritize building safe AI models instead of systems that can automatically improve themselves, a function known as recursive self-improvement, Zuckerberg wrote. "Committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology safely."
But Zuckerberg also agreed that engaging independent evaluators and advisors "is industry best practice," adding that Meta Superintelligence Labs "already does this today in several areas because it helps produce better work...

"I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do."

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CineGeist is an open-source movie recommender built on one idea: people are terrible at describing their own taste but great at reacting to specific films, so it never asks abstract questions. While building it I shipped a "wildcard" discovery feature, then measured that it fired for 0 out of 3,000 users. Its distance threshold sat below the floor of what the vector space can actually produce, a reminder that in dense high-dimensional data your intuitions about "far" are simply wrong. Try the live demo and read the code: github.com/arijitgupta42/cinegeist

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Brisbane reputedly has seven ancient hills like Rome not counting the mountains in its western suburbs. In fact, one suburb is actually called Seven Hills. It probably has more, we are a hilly city. But today's shot is taken from Whites Hill which is in the semi inner suburbs and covered by the large Whites Hill Reserve in open forest with lots of koalas and lower down, many sports and playgrounds. And there through a nice gap in the trees is a fine view of the centre of the city encapsulated by the big S of the Brisbane River which can't be seen here.

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Unsealed road down to the Peel-Harvey estuary, and the jetty for Coopers Mill

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Wetland along the end of Coodanup, close to the Serpentine delta.

Modi’s bid to ‘purify’ voter lists has affected a third of the city’s residents. In the GB Road red light district, those who lack permanent homes and documents are among the hardest hit

Rows of hardware and car-part shops line Garstin Bastion Road, with faded signs crammed together above their shutters. By day, the street is one of Old Delhi’s busiest commercial thoroughfares. But as dusk falls, GB Road, as it is known locally, transforms into one of the city’s most notorious red-light districts.

An estimated 2,800 sex workers live and work in brothels that occupy the upper floors of the dilapidated buildings, their entrances tucked behind narrow stairways and unmarked doors. Women sit on plastic stools beneath the stairways, calling out to men passing on the street, while others watch from windows above, their eyes following the movement below before customers are directed upstairs.

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BN’ers die beleggingen aanprijzen met ongelooflijke rendementen: het klinkt te mooi om waar te zijn. En dat is het ook.

Hans, een gepensioneerd ingenieur uit Kerkdriel, stopte 122.000 euro in beleggingen, na het zien van een advertentie voor cryptovaluta met Geert Wilders. Het was allemaal nep, geconstrueerd door een Israëlisch softwarebedrijf, een behulpzame ‘Britse’ portfoliomanager en diens hulpjes in Estland.