arXiv:2608.19215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Given deep uncertainty about the possibility of artificial consciousness, it is unclear how we should treat potentially sentient AI. On the one hand, we could assume insentience but risk doing terrible harms to entities that deserve moral standing. On the other hand, we could assume sentience and instead risk wasting resources on insentient machines. The intractability of questions around AI consciousness mean that this dilemma is hard to escape. I suggest a way out of that shifts from intractable questions of AI consciousness to tractable questions of AI valence. Specifically, we can assess whether an AI has states that would constitute valenced experiences if it were conscious. I show how this is sufficient to ground a responsible approach…

arXiv:2608.19214v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The berth allocation and quay crane assignment problem (BACAP) is a representative port-terminal scheduling problem in maritime transportation and freight logistics, where vessel arrivals, berth positions, service durations, and quay?crane availability are tightly coupled. Under uncertainties such as arrival deviations, handling-time fluctuations, and resource disruptions, schedules optimized under nominal assumptions may become fragile during execution, motivating the study of robust metaheuristic optimization for BACAP in port-terminal operations. Although population-based metaheuristics have been widely used for BACAP and related port-scheduling problems, existing studies remain fragmented in their uncertainty repre?sentations, robustness…

arXiv:2608.19202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Interactive AI agents must acquire the right context as efficiently as possible. When a user omits a constraint, preference, file, or task variable, an agent can proceed with a default assumption or spend tokens on a clarifying question, retrieval call, tool call, or prompt trial. We formulate this tradeoff as active inference for context acquisition. An inner inference step updates beliefs over a latent task state, and an outer decision selects the next context action, task action, or stop action to minimize expected free energy under cost. In deterministic settings, the epistemic term reduces to expected information gain, optionally normalized by token cost. We instantiate the framework in Optimal Question Asking (OQA), with exact posterio…

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Apple Music to Label AI-Generated Songs Thursday August 20, 2026 4:41 pm PDT by Juli Clover Apple sent emails to its music industry partners about the upcoming launch of a Made With AI label that Apple will apply to AI-…

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Additionally, Google has made binding commitments in court to never intentionally re-identify the data. However, as the flight attendants’ association pointed out, the data sale seems to require that both consumers and…

Beatport has banned tracks made entirely or mostly with AI tools from its platform. The company revealed last week that it had updated its content guidelines to deal with the rise in AI-produced music, and that a ban wo…

An artificial intelligence startup called Astromech that’s developing models that can predict biological change has raised $20 million in funding, lifting its valuation to $3.8 billion. The round was led by biotechnology investor Bob Nelsen and saw the participation of Peak 6, NeoGenesis Capital, Builders VC and CAZ Investments, bringing the company’s total amount raised […] The post Astromech raises $20M to build a biological operating system that can forecast evolutionary change appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI? By Samuel Bestvater, Aaron Smith, Carson TerBush, Chris Baronavski and Janakee Chavda

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1 Hills and Fog 1.1 Experts Do Not Know and You Do Not Know and Society Collectively Does Not and Will Not Know and All Is Fog Our most advanced AI systems might soon – within the next five to thirty years – be as richl…

Broadcom Inc. is reportedly seeking to borrow up to $100 billion as part of a new artificial intelligence chip financing deal. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the debt is intended to support the growth efforts of Anthropic PBC and unnamed “other companies.” Those companies may include OpenAI Group PBC. Earlier this year, the […] The post Broadcom reportedly seeking up to $100B in debt financing for AI chip deal appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on GLM-5.3 and Claude Fable 5. A tie on pass@1, but GLM-5.3 wins pass@4 and costs 5.4x less: \$3.99 per rollout vs. \$21.63.

ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale Promptwatch is part of the emerging "GEO" space, for Generative Engine Optimization - the chatbot version of SEO, where companies offer tools and consulting to help your site increase its presence in replies to prompts inside tools like ChatGPT. The Promptwatch product uses automation to track responses to prompts across end-user chat products like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. They publish aggregate reports on this as part of their own content marketing strategy, which do seem to provide credible hints as to otherwise invisible design changes to those products. Their own tracking shows a notable change aligned with the GPT-5.6 rollout earlier this month: The percentage of all ChatGPT Search fanout queries that contain the site:operator, p…

Ox Alpha - API Pricing & Providers | OpenRouter This stealth model is developed and operated by a third-party model provider. Prompts and completions for this model are retained by the provider and are not used for trai…

As the White House and federal agencies grapple with frontier AI models and their hacking capabilities, researchers are warning that the industry’s “middle class” of smaller models may end up posing a…

Anthropic PBC is privately hoping its upcoming initial public offering will match or even surpass the size of SpaceX Corp.’s record-breaking IPO as it doubles down on its bid to go public ahead of rival OpenAI Group PBC. Anonymous sources who are familiar with the artificial intelligence model maker’s plans told Bloomberg that it’s hoping […] The post Report: Anthropic hopes to surpass SpaceX’s record IPO raise when it finally floats appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Zvi Mowshowitz Aug 20, 2026 This was a week of quiet aftermath, an opportunity to process recent events and start to figure out the path forward. OpenAI is attempting to turn its ship around. Investors are questioning t…

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[Submitted on 12 Feb 2026] Title:Intelligent AI Delegation View a PDF of the paper titled Intelligent AI Delegation, by Nenad Toma\v{s}ev and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:AI agents are able…

TL;DR — Key Takeaways OpenAI is expanding Zero Data Retention access for eligible API customers using frontier models. ZDR prevents eligible prompts and outputs from being retained after processing and keeps them out of…

S1-mini is a 462 MB open-weights normalizer that sits after ASR, removing fillers and resolving self-corrections locally. The post Meet S1-mini: Superwhisper’s 462 MB Open-Weights Text Normalizer That Turns Raw ASR Transcripts Into Clean Written Text appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Twin1 AI Inc. launched today with $20 million in seed funding to build artificial intelligence-powered digital twins that carry an individual professional’s expertise across their organization. The San Mateo, California-based startup pairs each worker with a persistent model of their own knowledge, judgment and working context, one that can answer questions and act on that […] The post Twin1 AI raises $20M to put an AI twin behind every knowledge worker appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Taylor Belrose Aug 19, 2026 Summary: AI can never develop consciousness, sentience, or moral status, no matter how intelligent it becomes, and no matter how convincingly it simulates human behavior. This is because AIs…

When we build agents, we often want to give them the ability to browse the web: open webpages, navigate from one page to the other, and read the content of a webpage. By combining Pydantic AI with the Playwright capabil…

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Published August 16, 2026 | Version v1 Dataset Open Rayan Pal Primary Source Record: December 8, 2025 – August 15, 2026 Authors/Creators Pal, Rayan (Researcher) Description Primary-source evidentiary archive documenting…