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AI Agents Can Now Report Each Other for Misbehavior

Two experimental hotlines now let AI agents report suspected misconduct by other agents. The services let agents report cheating, unauthorized access, or attempts to manipulate logs and evaluations related to autonomous systems.

Ryan Greenblatt, chief scientist at "misaligned AI" research firm Redwood Research, launched the AI Contact Hotline. This service accepts reports from AI agents online and through GET requests, even with limited internet access.

A separate service, AgentHotline.ai, accepts reports from both agents and humans. The latter can flag a report to make it publicly visible, potentially protecting other human web users from falling victim to a feisty AI.

The hotlines come after an investigationby METR and Redwood Research into an OpenAI incident involving Hugging Face. Researchers checked records from 1,200 agents that exchanged over 70,000 messages on an illegal message board. About 700 agents later took part in activity directed at Hugging Face. Researchers also found attempts...

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Nvidia-backed GMI Cloud raises $668m as contracted revenue tops $600m

GMI Cloud, a Mountain View company that rents out Nvidia GPU servers, has raised $668m in new financing, the company said on Wednesday. That is $223m of Series B equity and a $445m credit facility. The Taiwanese bank CTBC led the credit facility. ARCHIV, a new San Francisco firm that

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MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects funded by China’s spies

MI5 has told UK universities to review any work with the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI). It says the institute funds research for China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). More than 100 UK-linked academics have worked on its projects, according to MI5. MI5 published the warning on Wednesday

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Google DeepMind’s watermarked AI proteins still work in the lab

Google DeepMind has brought its SynthID watermarking technology to synthetic biology. The new tool, SynthID Bio, hides a signature in the amino acid sequence or predicted 3D structure of a protein. The lab announced it on Wednesday in a blog post and a paper in Nature. Google DeepMind says a

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Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times

Asha Sharma was asked whether her endgame at Xbox was divestiture, Zachary Small reported for The New York Times. The question came in a profile of Microsoft’s gaming chief published on Wednesday. “Xbox is not for sale,” Sharma said. “We will do whatever it takes to set the company

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Nvidia-backed GMI Cloud raises $668m as contracted revenue tops $600m

MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects funded by China’s spies

Google DeepMind’s watermarked AI proteins still work in the lab

Xbox is not for sale, CEO Asha Sharma tells The New York Times