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Hugging Face volunteers to audit the AI labs, and Nvidia is buying it

Hugging Face has asked to become one of the outside auditors of the AI labs. Clement Delangue announced the Open Alignment Initiative on X on Saturday. He posted it four hours after Dario Amodei said Anthropic would let third-party evaluators inside. Alignment will not come from behind the closed doors of a handful of frontier labs, Delangue wrote. Thomas Wolf, his co-founder, leads the new effort.

Amodei had posted the essay at 16:01 CET. Anthropic would give third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems, he wrote. Those evaluators could then verify that Anthropic keeps to its safety measures, report on incidents, and assess how models align during training. TNW covered the essay itself on Saturday.

Delangue posted at 17:08. He asked to join the embedded evaluators programme Amodei had just announced. Making AI safer means making it more transparent, he wrote. Sam Altman said the same day that...

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New corners, new lights for 2028 Volvo XC40

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"Offensively cheap": Solar power is looking up

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Steam Frame: The Ars Technica review

Better late than never? Valve’s new $1,049 VR hardware tries to revive an abandoned VR “revolution.” Hey, wheres all the wires and stuff that are supposed to connect to my computer? Credit: Kyle Orland In the 2010s, Valve was at the forefront of a virtual reality revolution that

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Prehistoric builders transported Devil's Arrows 11 miles

Clarke et al. took samples from all three Devil’s Arrows stones, as well as from the Battle Cross monument and Peg Bridge, using small sections of adhesive tape applied to inconspicuous areas of the stones free of lichens or mosses. Grain samples stuck to the tape and were later

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