@bakkermichiel
LLMs and AI alignment. Assistant Prof @MIT. Ex @GoogleDeepMind @GeminiApp.
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Gabriel says he continues to support a liberal, democratic and humanist vision for AI accountable to everyone affected.
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Stanislav Fort says he'll lead AI security research at Cohere if the deal closes.
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One poster calls a ban impossible; replies question how legalization would work and whether it could concentrate power.
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A user invited COLM attendees to meet @GraceLiu78 at their poster and hear about a paper and follow-ups still in progress.
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Mistral says Mistral Large 4 is live via API in public preview now, with open weights due at the end of October. Reuters says the launch is part of Mistral’s push to narrow the gap with leading Chinese open-weight models.
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A post predicts governments and big companies will use AI to influence people, and argues citizens need equally powerful tools that keep their thoughts private.
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Reddy said in an X post that his role will focus on safe, capable, open LLMs and building ties between Mistral, McGill, Mila, and the wider Canadian AI ecosystem.
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A post announcing a new preprint says researchers and engineers increasingly rely on LLM-written accounts of code and experiments to understand work generated by agents.
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A post urging people to join the AI Security Institute claims its team has found alignment issues, control monitor flaws and critical jailbreaks at “~all major AI companies.” It calls hiring the bottleneck.
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The announcement offers Dutch-edition preorders for delivery on October 6, 2026, and says the story is still free online in 21 languages, all translated by humans.
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A launch announcement says all fees from the token’s activity go toward independent research associated with MIT.
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Contributors outline plans for secure access to models and chips and better crisis readiness, while one argues for backing private labs rather than building a government-controlled rival.
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Amodei promises permanent, employee-level access for third-party evaluators. One commenter argues compute-allocation rules could be harder to game than safety evaluations.
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Amodei says Anthropic will give third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems to verify adherence to safety measures, report incidents and assess models’ alignment during training.
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MIT assistant professor and DeepMind researcher questions assumptions about open source AI ecosystem dominance.
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Jakub Pachocki discusses risks from advanced AI and needed safeguards.
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The model adds scientific intuition to coding agents for paper replication.
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Founder Anton Osika posted that the AI web-app platform quadrupled ARR in the past year.