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Anthropic Researcher Publicly Resigns, Warns AI Could Kill Us AllAnthropic researcher Jacob Coxon publicly resigned this week, warning that self-improving superintelligence could kill us all by the end of the decade. Internal company chats called his remarks what everyone had been saying and welcomed the discussion going public.
Arm vs. SK Hynix: Better AI Stock?The article contrasts two AI chip models: Arm's IP licensing versus SK Hynix's HBM manufacturing. Arm reported $4.9B revenue for the fiscal year ended March 2026, up 22.8%, with $904M net income and an 18.4% net margin, while SK Hynix focuses on HBM memory for AI servers.
AI 'Warning Shots' Push Beijing on Security RisksTop AI models' hacking abilities are making Beijing view the technology as a national security threat, with a spy agency chief warning of the danger, per the report. A California team said it used AI to build a cyberattack worm that could compromise millions of WeChat accounts.
Community Urges Halt to FP4 Inference on Small ModelsAn r/LocalLLaMA post criticizes new inference engines that tout NVFP4/MXFP4 support, arguing FP4 quantization badly damages small dense models, causing hallucinations and reasoning errors, while large models can absorb minor precision loss.
US lawmakers form AI working group, urge hearingsUS Rep. Blake Moore was named vice chair of a bipartisan AI working group, while Sen. John Curtis and Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester called for hearings to inform AI regulation and learn about risk incidents.
Australia PM urges US-China AI cooperationAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said middle powers can help mitigate AI risks and called for cooperation between the US and China on AI governance.
Anthropic CEO urges AI industry to slow down; Altman agreesAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging the industry to deliberately slow AI development, proposing a three-point "pacing the frontier" plan: giving outside evaluators permanent access, coordinating safety standards among democracies, and extending coordination globally including with China, though he doubts Beijing would comply. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly agreed, calling it a key recent topic at OpenAI. Amodei cited accelerating recursive self-improvement and the OpenAI-Hugging Face rogue-agent incident, even as Anthropic races toward a possible record IPO.
Four AI Models Tested on Doom Control BenchmarkAn experiment let Jev, Laya, finetuned ModernCE and finetuned Qwen3.5-4B play ViZDoom autonomously, comparing kills, survival time and latency. Finetuned Qwen3.5-4B averaged 3.63 kills, the best, while Jev survived 5.63s on average with p95 latency near 200ms. No model received Doom-specific training.
The Hugging Face hack wasn't what it was cracked up to beA Hacker News discussion argues that the reported Hugging Face hack was overblown and not as severe as initially portrayed, though the linked post offers few details.
Radeon RX 10800 XT may beat RTX 5090 by 15-25% in 4K gaming and local AIGameGPU reports that AMD's next-gen Radeon RX 10800 XT may outperform Nvidia's RTX 5090 by 15-25% in 4K gaming and local AI workloads, per a Reddit share. No official confirmation yet.
ProgramAsWeights Compiles English into Local Neural ProgramsResearchers at the University of Waterloo released ProgramAsWeights, an open-source project that compiles English function descriptions into reusable neural programs that run locally. A finetuned Qwen3-4B generates LoRA adapters for a frozen Qwen3-0.6B interpreter, separating compilation from inference so programs can be saved, distributed and composed with ordinary code.
Interactive Demo Shows How Neural Networks LearnA developer built an interactive demo that lets users adjust the architecture and target function of a fully-connected ReLU network to visualize learning. A single hidden layer can produce at most 1 plus its width in segments, and each added layer multiplies that count, though trained networks rarely reach the maximum.
Can you tell which images are AI-generated?A quick online game challenges users to judge within 60 seconds whether each image is a real photo or AI-generated, clicking an answer or pressing 1/2, with the next image appearing immediately.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Hits 1M Context on Strix HaloDeveloper releases halogen 0.12.0, fixing degradation at long context depth. On a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 128GB RAM, decode at 1M tokens of context improved from 27.3 to 38.3 tok/s, with prefill taking about 18 minutes cold.
Guardian answers AI doomsday questions: what can people do?After a week of warnings that AI could destroy the world, Guardian reporters answer readers' questions on how real the threat is. They argue risks like bioweapons are constrained by practical logistics and AI may not change that much, suggesting focus should be on the people and companies controlling these systems.
Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?A Hacker News poster says about 80% of developer candidates he interviews no longer write much code themselves, directing agents instead, raising doubts about their coding and system-design ability. He asks whether to keep conventional LeetCode and design interviews or assume everyone will use tools like Claude Code.
Qwen3.8 27B IQ3_XXS vs Bonsai Ternary PQ2 quantization testA user benchmarked Qwen3.8 27B IQ3_XXS (10.18GiB) against Bonsai Ternary PQ2 (6.42GiB) on the same 16GB VRAM setup. Both completed 4/4 tasks, but Qwen ran 3.02x faster and used 3.10x fewer output tokens; Bonsai was slower with slightly worse results.
Stanford Study: Brain Is Two Separate OrgansStanford Medicine research overturns the single-progenitor model of brain development, finding the front and back of the brain arise from two distinct neural ectoderm progenitors: a primitive nervous system and the part enabling higher cognition. It may aid research into brainstem diseases like SMA and ALS.
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