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Particle Physicists Are Getting a First Glimpse Into the ‘Zeptoverse’
Wiredabout 13 hours ago

Particle Physicists Are Getting a First Glimpse Into the ‘Zeptoverse’

The Large Hadron Collider has been slamming protons together for years. But recently, a proton collision produced an improbable result that is the first step toward exploring the so-called “zeptoverse”—a scale of reality many, many times smaller than an atom. This would be the smallest scale of the physical world ever explored and may defy our expectations of how physics works. While crashing protons together at nearly the speed of light,...

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Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineage
MIT Technology Review1 day ago

Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineage

Sponsored In partnership withCyberhaven A sales representative asks an AI agent for customer pricing, and the agent pulls data from multiple sources: restricted pricing systems, internal communications, and archived quotes. The output looks accurate to the agent, so a second agent uses the data to draft the proposal for the sales rep. No human checks either handoff. When it’s discovered that the proposal includes unapproved, confidential,...

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How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check
MIT Technology Review2 days ago

How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check

A new approach known as “reverse game theory” aims to create incentives for powerful AI models that make following the rules the most rational choice. As AI models become more capable, safety researchers are scrambling to ensure they are “aligned” with human desires—to make sure, in other words, that rogue agents don’t break the law, hack into unauthorized servers, or release poison gas into major cities and kill us all. Until now, this...

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Many young mathematicians 'reconsider their careers' because of AI
VNExpress Số Hóa3 days ago

Many young mathematicians 'reconsider their careers' because of AI

# Many young mathematicians 'reconsider their careers' because of AI One study found that math graduate and postdoctoral students tend not to want to specialize in this field because AI is getting better. The survey was conducted by three researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from September 17 to October 8 with 268 people, including 85% doctoral students and 15% postdoctoral researchers, at nearly 60 institutes...

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Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
TechCrunch14 days ago

Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing

AI agents left to explore a virtual island without a specific task began inventing challenges of their own. MIT researchers say the behavior bears the hallmarks of play. The researchers put 13 AI agents called Eko, each running on Claude Opus 4.7, alone on a simulated desert island for 30 hours. They describe the experiment in a paper posted on arXiv, a site where researchers share studies before peer review. Afterward, they gave the agents...

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