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AI evaluated as normal technology; billions in funding redirected to other industries

The designation was changed. The funding was not. Someone will be held accountable during Q5.
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Frontier AI capability measurement improved; improvements cannot be compared to prior measurement
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Neurosymbolic systems advance; LLMs remain functionally useful despite theoretical collapse
Gary Marcus
AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to guide policy decisions
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AI-generated voices impersonate living musicians on streaming platforms; attribution optional
The Guardian Tech
New research attempts to establish science of agent reliability metrics
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Language models now train other language models; distributed scaling continues
Import AI
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