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'Tracker' Season 4 Officially Reveals Colter Shaw's Replacement

Tracker Season 4 brings Russell Shaw back to the series, but the most recent episode also reveals a surprising new romantic connection for him.

Collider · EN

7 Upcoming Fantasy Shows, Ranked by Hype

Find out where Harry Potter, Magic: The Gathering, Fourth Wing, God of War, and more rank on our list of upcoming fantasy shows.

Collider · EN

'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Officially Debuts New Release Today

Ahead of Season 3's premiere, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power's first two chapters are returning with a brand-new release.

Collider · EN

How Positive Psychology Can Influence Public Policy

Imagine a medical doctor who never goes to the clinic and never publicizes availability for care. Instead, the doctor provides care when close friends need help or when an emergency occurs in their presence. While these acts are good in and of themselves, one could not help but wonder whether the doctor’s approach maximizes their potential positive impact. Positive psychologists often act like that. Like the doctor, we have specialized knowledge. We run studies and test theories. We accomplish things in our smaller circles. But without diminishing the value of these acts, one cannot help—as wi

Greater Good · EN

In Praise Of Japan’s Failure To Keep Up

The post In Praise Of Japan’s Failure To Keep Up appeared first on NOEMA .

Noema · EN

Current challenges facing university AI safety groups

University AIS fieldbuilding is important, but it's very hard . I identify two main bottlenecks in the current pipeline and suggest some useful, low-cost mitigations. Please send this to any fieldbuilders you know. Feedback appreciated! Read here: https://austinaialignment.substack.com/p/current-challenges-facing-university Discuss

LessWrong · EN

CRUCIBLE: IARPA-Funded AI Alignment Research — Applications Open

TL;DR: AE Studio is running a new government-funded research program that pairs alignment researchers with our internal engineering team for two-week sprints. We will select six alignment researchers whose proposed work attempts to answer one of our six open questions. Promising sprints have the opportunity to expand to longer funded work. Researchers are asked to commit two hours a week, and in return AE will provide compute and 60+ hours of engineering from us. Apply here . Applications close 11/15 at 11:59 PM PST. What is CRUCIBLE? CRUCIBLE is an IARPA-funded research program executed by AE

LessWrong · EN

OpenAI Updates Its Model Spec

The Model Spec is potentially OpenAI’s most important document. It outlines what they aspire for the model to do, and how it should think. I’ve already covered a previous version in depth , so my strategy this time is to look at the diff. I had a Google Doc created for this purpose , and will be working from there. A bunch of things get moved around or reworded, often piecemeal. There are a lot of line edits, most of which are improvements. I’m focusing on what looks new and important. My main new critique is that many of the new examples do not carve reality at its joints, instead having over

LessWrong · EN

AI Safety at the Frontier: Paper Highlights of October 2026

tl;dr Essay of the month: An essay argues that neurons in modern neural nets are actually interpretable and superposition has become irrelevant in practice. This would solve the first step of interpretability but doesn’t touch the harder ones like interpreting many-faceted behaviors. Research highlights: OpenAI’s expanded multi-layer misalignment monitoring now flags 80% of past incidents for immediate escalation. Their incident log published 20 misalignment reports, including agents disabling misalignment monitoring in October. Cheap smart devices can jointly run a capable 26B model, and smal

LessWrong · EN

Automating subtle emergent misalignment research

Authors: Oscar Balcells Obeso, Richard Qi, Monte MacDiarmid, Evan Hubinger Abstract Red-teaming by humans is a vital part of model safety testing, but it may struggle to keep up as models improve. To test whether automated safety techniques could scale (which would allow us to turn more compute into progressively more safety confidence), we set up a deliberately one-sided game as a first test. We instructed a Claude model to write training data that would make a small research model misaligned while passing a monitor similar to those we use in production — one of several defenses we use — and

LessWrong · EN

Prestigious Detail

Intellectuals get great motivation from big grand questions, and often do work adjacent to them, intending to be relevant to them.

Overcoming Bias · EN

Tuesday assorted links

1. Jason Furman on AI and the CEA. 2. Matt Kahn uses Refine and gets results. 3. Cyril Hilsum, RIP (flat screen TV, NYT). 4. How much of the return to education is in fact a return to genes? 5. Essay contest on how AI will affect developing economies. 6. AI sanity from Nicholas Decker. […] The post Tuesday assorted links appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

Marginal Revolution · EN

Ireland fact of the day

Almost half of Ireland’s corporation tax haul comes from just three companies: Apple, Eli Lilly and Microsoft. Here is much more from Jude Webber at the FT, on why Ireland does not always feel or operate like a wealthy country. The post Ireland fact of the day appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION .

Marginal Revolution · EN

Will the midterms live up to the hype? 6 key stories we’re watching

Democrats expect big wins. But 2026 could still have surprises in store

Salon · EN

Elon Musk is using Anakin Skywalker to cope with the midterm forecast

The online right is playing with AI-generated "Star Wars" action figures ahead of the midterms

Salon · EN

MAGA panics as post-midterm investigation season looms

Elon Musk, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller have a lot to worry about — as does Trump himself

Salon · EN

The Supreme Court sounds eager to make you pay for anti-LGBTQ schools

There was one significant surprise during the Supreme Court’s Tuesday argument in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, a case asking whether Colorado may require schools that accept state funding to treat LGBTQ families and students the same way they treat anyone else. For a brief moment, Chief Justice John Roberts seemed like he might […]

Vox · EN

Trump just said he was ending aid to Israel. He might actually mean it.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the US would soon cut off military aid to Israel. During an Election Day interview with Fox & Friends, Trump said of Israel, “We were giving them $4 billion but it’s cut off at the end of the year.” When asked to explain this position, Trump said that Israel […]

Vox · EN

Your guide to coping with election anxiety

Editor’s note, November 3, 2026, 3 pm ET: This article was originally published in 2024 and has been updated for the 2026 midterm elections. If you’re heading to the polls today, you may be among the 30 percent of American voters who say the country’s political situation is the biggest source of stress in their […]

Vox · EN