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China racks up advantages from Iran energy crisis
Semafor Technology 2026-06-29 22:50 UTC Score 52.0 USR-0094-20260629-global-ai-ne-2bcf9a89 Full article

China racks up advantages from Iran energy crisis

China’s relative insulation from supply and price shocks will “deepen economic dependencies” that Beijing could leverage for geopolitical advantage, a new report argued.

Iran says no high-level US talks planned
Semafor Technology 2026-06-29 22:14 UTC Score 49.0 USR-0094-20260629-global-ai-ne-1a758902 Full article

Iran says no high-level US talks planned

Iran contradicted the US’ assertion that the countries plan to hold high-level talks in Qatar on Tuesday to shore up their shaky ceasefire.

Feature Request: include API key name (or group_by=api_key_name) in the Usage & Costs API responses
OpenAI Community 2026-06-29 22:01 UTC Score 37.0 AI-116-20260629-social-media-437f2984 Full article

Feature Request: include API key name (or group_by=api_key_name) in the Usage & Costs API responses

Our team manages a large number of API keys, and we use the Usage and Costs endpoints ( /v1/organization/usage/* , /v1/organization/costs to break down spend by key. Today these endpoints group only by api_key_id , which makes it hard to tell at a glance which key is which. With many keys, our teams cannot tell at a glance which key maps to which product surface, so reconciling spend means manually and frequently cross-referencing IDs and building mapping logic against our own records. We’d like these endpoints-- most importantly the costs endpoint, to include api_key_name as a new group_by option to avoid extra lookups to map IDs back to keys.

Supreme Court punts on future Fed firings
Semafor Technology 2026-06-29 21:30 UTC Score 49.0 USR-0094-20260629-global-ai-ne-37fb33be Full article

Supreme Court punts on future Fed firings

The high court ruled that the president can dismiss members of most independent agencies without cause, but that the US central bank is different.

LessWrong AI 2026-06-29 21:24 UTC Score 65.0 USR-0152-20260629-community-fo-f50e7643

Role confusion: sounding like the cause is indistinguishable from being it.

A replication of Prompt Injection as Role Confusion (2026) and why the mechanistic story of prompt injection is harder to pin down than it looks. Epistemic status: I reproduced the direction of the paper's main results on a single consumer GPU (it was faithful in direction but not like for like in magnitude, see caveats at the end) I then tried two ways to test the paper's causal claims. First activation steering and then activation patching; neither settled it. Steering is too weak, it can't move behaviour even along a direction built exactly to do that, whilst patching does move behaviour but isn't specific - a random perturbation of equal size does the same thing. This post is a replication and an honest bracketing negative result: The causal tools can't show that role confusion IS the mechanism NOR that it's a bystander, but there are two clues that need no working intervention: 1) the styled/destyled gap is ~95% outside the probe's role axis, and 2) the probe's predictive ability collapses once style is held fixed both lean towards it being a bystander. What I can show is narrower, but it's well supported by the data, and exploring why a clean verdict is out of reach is interesting on it's own. The dead ends here demonstrate precisely why making causal claims about how prompt injections work is so difficult. If you are hoping for a verdict on the original paper. There isn't one. I couldn't get one, and I really tried. Rather this post is about why a clean verdict is so…

Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity
Microsoft Research Blog 2026-06-29 21:14 UTC Score 70.0 AI-053-20260629-official-ai--9e9f57b6 Full article

Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity

AI agents can't remember past conversations. They must constantly reload or retrieve context, which grows less efficient as tasks get longer and more complex. Memora solves this with a scalable memory system separating what’s stored from how it's retrieved. The post Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity appeared first on Microsoft Research .

T-Mobile is booting customers from its oldest plans
The Verge AI 2026-06-29 21:06 UTC Score 49.0 AI-016-20260629-global-ai-ne-f7fb50ef Full article

T-Mobile is booting customers from its oldest plans

Earlier today, T-Mobile started notifying customers that it will be retiring many legacy plans and moving subscribers onto one of its current rate plans. This move includes plans that date back to the 3G era, and it's going about as well as you'd expect. Affected customers began sharing screenshots of the text on reddit and […]

After a great start, DC’s new cinematic universe is already slowing down
The Verge AI 2026-06-29 21:00 UTC Score 49.0 AI-016-20260629-global-ai-ne-be65f3ba Full article

After a great start, DC’s new cinematic universe is already slowing down

While Kara Zor-El's appearance at the end of James Gunn's Superman was a very pleasant surprise, Warner Bros. Discovery's plan to fast-track a standalone Supergirl feature always felt a little dubious. It seemed odd that, after Superman, the studio wanted to flesh out its new cinematic universe with films about another Kryptonian and one of […]

Transmission Line Inspection AI
Roboflow Blog 2026-06-29 20:58 UTC Score 50.0 USR-0088-20260629-ai-specialis-0fc40f8f Full article

Transmission Line Inspection AI

Detect foreign objects and damaged cables on transmission lines using RF-DETR and Roboflow Workflows.

Tarmac Safety AI
Roboflow Blog 2026-06-29 20:44 UTC Score 56.0 USR-0088-20260629-ai-specialis-3c176e4e Full article

Tarmac Safety AI

Build an automated airport FOD detection workflow using RF-DETR, Roboflow Workflows, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Leaked iPhone 18 Pro photos reportedly wound up on the dark web
The Verge AI 2026-06-29 20:18 UTC Score 49.0 AI-016-20260629-global-ai-ne-306491c0 Full article

Leaked iPhone 18 Pro photos reportedly wound up on the dark web

Leaked iPhone 18 Pro photos and parts lists appeared on the dark web following a data breach affecting one of Apple's key suppliers, according to a report from Reuters. The leaked images show a drop test of what a source tells Reuters is the iPhone 18 Pro, equipped with a three-camera layout and Apple logo. […]

API Access Blocked Due to Disputed Unauthorized Usage
OpenAI Community 2026-06-29 20:14 UTC Score 45.0 AI-116-20260629-social-media-1e17034a Full article

API Access Blocked Due to Disputed Unauthorized Usage

dad: It’s standard operating procedure across all businesses to disable access to services in the event of excessive outstanding bills/balances of all kinds–even if those charges are being disputed. It is also standard procedure that services like that are charged extra. Beside that .. there is a possibility to set warnings. https://platform.openai.com/settings https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/limits

How should a “prompt engineer” prompt be updated for GPT-5.5?
OpenAI Community 2026-06-29 20:04 UTC Score 37.0 AI-116-20260629-social-media-eb2b686d Full article

How should a “prompt engineer” prompt be updated for GPT-5.5?

I’ve found this “old” one of mine: ChatGPT ChatGPT - Meta Prompt Engineer Turns messy, unstructured requests into paste-ready prompts optimized specifically for GPT-5.2. Clarifies intent, resolves ambiguity, enforces human-native language, and outputs prompts you can copy into another chat. By TechSpokes Potentially outdated a bit, but may still contain some useful approaches.

Could AI Outgrow Consciousness?
LessWrong AI 2026-06-29 20:02 UTC Score 50.0 USR-0152-20260629-community-fo-b12e5a9d Full article

Could AI Outgrow Consciousness?

TL;DR: Conditional on believing in illusionist theories of consciousness, it seems plausible that AI systems will be conscious above some threshold of complexity but surpass a need for consciousness once they become sufficiently advanced. Consciousness for humans is confusing enough as it is but adding this onto a discussion of conscious machines makes things even more complicated. Some people are pretty confident that AI systems will not be conscious because there is something intrinsic about biology . Others note that the possibility is more likely than we might otherwise think . We think a neglected question to consider is whether AIs above a certain threshold of complexity may need consciousness but then no longer require it above some other threshold. To understand this take, though, it is important to unpick some of the concepts here. What is consciousness? Consciousness is clearly a bit difficult to pin down, with the most popular definition just saying it is where there is something it is like to be an individual . This doesn’t really clarify things! So it is worth thinking this through some more. We would contend a conscious experience is one which is necessarily subjective. We might look at a brain scanner to see the parts of a brain that light up when someone is happy but we do not directly observe the subjective nature of that experience. A doctor suffering from congenital insensitivity to pain may be able to describe exactly when, where, and (from a medical pers…

OpenAI Community 2026-06-29 20:00 UTC Score 34.0 AI-116-20260629-social-media-b2fdf693 Full article

Locked out of Codex because of an old phone number?

Thanks to everyone who shared case numbers here. We reviewed the newer reports and followed up when we were able to unblock. If you are still blocked, please continue working with Support in your existing case so we can review your account-specific situation.

Business workspace was deactivated
OpenAI Community 2026-06-29 19:56 UTC Score 35.0 AI-116-20260629-social-media-b31b5315 Full article

Business workspace was deactivated

Thanks everyone for sharing your case numbers and the additional details. For anyone seeing the option to reactivate a Business workspace: if the original workspace is greyed out, you may be prompted to create/purchase a new subscription for that same workspace. This can be expected as part of the reactivation flow. Important: when going through the Purchase subscription flow, make sure you select the same number of seats as the original deactivated workspace, or more . This is needed so the previous workspace members and their associated workspace data can be restored properly. If you select fewer seats than the original workspace had, only that smaller number of seats will be active after reactivation, and the remaining members may not get access to their previous workspace data. ~ Smith

Tidal won’t pay royalties on AI-generated music but isn’t banning it outright
The Verge AI 2026-06-29 19:47 UTC Score 57.0 AI-016-20260629-global-ai-ne-6e0dbec3 Full article

Tidal won’t pay royalties on AI-generated music but isn’t banning it outright

Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to "protect artists" and "inform listeners." Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal will label tracks it has identified as being 100 percent AI-generated with an icon. But starting today those tracks will no longer be monetizable. "Tidal's […]

LessWrong AI 2026-06-29 19:29 UTC Score 62.0 USR-0152-20260629-community-fo-b557397b

Destroying the universe: How hard can it be?

In quantum field theory, the vacuum state refers to the lowest energy state in a system. Particles are excitations above this state and carry energy, hence the term "vacuum" to refer to the state with no particles. Nothing requires this state to be unique. There may be many different field configurations that are local energy minima, and hence stable against small perturbations. A local minimum that does not globally minimize energy is called a false vacuum. While locally it looks like a stable vacuum, it is unstable and will decay to the deeper, true vacuum. If the energy barrier between the false and true vacuum is high, however, then the decay rate is exponentially suppressed and the false vacuum may be very long-lived. Analogous behavior is common in other physical systems. Open a carbonated drink and the CO₂, more stable as a gas once the pressure is released, comes out as bubbles. But the bubbles take a moment to appear, and they form on the sides of the bottle rather than throughout the liquid. A bubble has to pay an energy cost to create its surface—the boundary between gas and liquid—and small bubbles have a larger surface-to-volume ratio. The energy gained by moving CO₂ into the gas grows with the bubble's volume, while the cost of its surface grows only with its area; so below a critical radius the cost wins and the bubble redissolves, and above it the gain wins and the bubble grows. Reaching that critical size takes a large enough chance fluctuation, which is why…

Euronews AI 2026-06-29 19:28 UTC Score 40.0 AI-164-20260629-regional-ai--56249315

World Bank backs Spain with new Madrid office

First vice-president and economy minister Carlos Cuerpo presents Spain as a key hub for multilateral institutions after the opening of the World Bank office.