Technology & AI
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI board and safety committee
Paul Christiano, an AI alignment researcher with NIST ties and early OpenAI roots, joins the Foundation Board and Safety and Security Committee.
Marcello Babbili
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Analyst in New South Wales. I founded Not A Tech Guy in 2026 to track AI, technology and Australian property from the primary sources: the papers, the company disclosures, and the RBA and ABS releases.
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Technology & AI
AI agents can probe neural networks but misread their own data
A new benchmark tests if AI agents can autonomously reverse-engineer language models, exposing a gap between designing and reading their own experiments.
Technology & AI
AI agents don't know when they fail: new method reads internal signals
A new arXiv paper reads AI models' internal representations to predict whether agent actions will succeed, with zero extra compute cost.
Technology & AI
Show-Harness lets VLMs control robots with no extra training
Show-Harness exposes a compact semantic action layer that lets vision-language models control robots without costly retraining or extra hardware.
Technology & AI
NVIDIA targets 2 GW of AI factory capacity in Australia by 2027
NVIDIA's DSX platform will power up to 2 gigawatts of Australian AI compute by 2027, with local operators building and running the facilities.
Property & Economy
Rental kids move every 2.3 years as housing crisis bites
New AHURI research shows children in rentals move every 2.3 years, as cost-of-living pressures force families to relocate more often.
Technology & AI
SAREF ontology maps distributed AI across edge-fog-cloud continuum
A SAREF-compliant ontology extends an ETSI standard to describe distributed AI pipelines and resources across edge, fog and cloud environments.
Technology & AI
OpenAI claims AI solved Navier-Stokes problem
OpenAI published an AI-generated Navier-Stokes solution with a Lean proof on September 8. Nobody has verified it. The Clay Institute has not accepted it.
Technology & AI
OpenAI $5M grant funds research on AI and teens
OpenAI's $5 million grant program invites independent researchers to study how generative AI shapes teen development, well-being and safety.
Technology & AI
AI safety paper: refuse harmful prompts, keep benign ones
Multiverse Computing's new method refuses only the harmful subset of a topic while answering benign prompts, exposing a gap in LlamaGuard-3.
Technology & AI
Home Assistant trends on GitHub at 90,000 stars
The open-source home automation platform hit 90,295 GitHub stars this week, riding a privacy-first wave against cloud-dependent smart homes.
Technology & AI
Banning personal AI at work barely cuts risk, study finds
A new maturity model finds prohibition-based AI policies leave residual risk near baseline, while layered controls cut exfiltration risk substantially.