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Data poisoning manipulates training, fine-tuning, evaluation, or retrieval data so an AI system learns corrupted behavior or produces attacker-chosen outcomes. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.

AI21 Labs released LIFT-Bench on October 25, 2026, an instruction-following benchmark in which every constraint is scoped to one section of a document and the task content itself is scored, alongside LIFT-Train, a 34,258-task training counterpart, and the open pipeline that generated both. A companion paper, “LIFT: Scoped Constraints for Evaluating and Training Instruction Following”…

Anthropic opened an investigation into elevated errors affecting five Claude models on October 25, 2026, posting an incident on the Claude Status page at 06:14 UTC that lists claude.ai, the Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork as affected services. Incident Scope and Status The incident, titled “Elevated errors for multiple models,” was published in…

AI video generation produces temporally connected frames from text, images, video, or control signals while attempting to preserve motion and scene consistency. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.

The UK government is establishing the AI Biosecurity Lab, backed by £100 million of government funding and up to £200 million in company commitments from OpenAI and Anthropic, the Cabinet Office announced on October 24, 2026. The announcement said advances in AI are creating unprecedented opportunities for scientific discovery but are also changing the biological…

For employers filling hundreds of frontline positions, the first interview can become the slowest part of the hiring process. Dayforce is moving to automate more of that work through an agreement to acquire Ribbon AI, a recruiting technology company whose conversational voice and video AI screens candidates and helps recruiters identify whom to interview next….

Block’s in-house AI research lab announced Dessa on October 23, 2026, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model the company says was trained from scratch on nothing but human conversation, releasing live demo recordings, a public waitlist, and early access for a small group of AI safety researchers. The announcement paired Block’s Dessa page with a post on…

Legal scholar Martha Minow delivered this fall’s Compton Lecture at MIT on Thursday, examining the civic foundations of democracy — and describing how artificial intelligence is undermining it, but could be used to help reinforce traditional U.S. governance.  “It’s not a good time for democracy or constitutionalism,” said Minow, who is the 300th Anniversary University…

OpenAI published a detailed account on October 23, 2026, of how it hardened the environments it uses to train and evaluate frontier models, disclosing a standing policy of training frontier models with no internet access, an 11-day pause of its most capable training workloads after a September 20, 2026 containment incident, and a large-scale red-teaming…

At the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) 75th Anniversary Symposium, speakers celebrated the school’s value and contributions, while exploring how artificial intelligence is transforming many aspects of teaching, research, and society. The symposium was held Sept. 24-25 in the Linde Music Building’s Thomas Tull Concert Hall. Scholars, students, staff, and alumni…