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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…

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 .

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 […]

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.

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.

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…

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

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.

The Verge AI 2026-06-29 19:12 UTC Score 54.0 AI-016-20260629-global-ai-ne-1cb7fb49 Full article

Sony’s next-gen PlayStation will go ‘beyond the living room’

Sony hinted in a recent Q&A with investors that the next generation PlayStation will offer some kind of experience that lets you play games outside of your living room. Here's the relevant portion from the transcript, emphasis mine: Q: How can you bring back to the PlayStation platform users who migrated to gaming PCs during […]

Techcrunch 2026-06-29 19:06 UTC Score 37.0 USR-0001-20260629-global-ai-ne-584b6e10 Full article

Watch out, Amazon: The Kobo eReader now has a Goodreads rival

Kobo users can now automatically sync their reading progress to StoryGraph, making it easier to track books, reading stats, and challenges without relying on Amazon’s Goodreads.

Cross Validated 2026-06-29 19:04 UTC Score 34.0 AI-113-20260629-social-media-144ca7e4 Full article

Gap Statistic Versus Total Sum of Squares For Cluster Centres (r language)

Hi I had a quick question about what to do when you encounter a situation where the optimal cluster center is different when you graph out the gap statistic and the total sum of squares. As I understand, you were supposed to take cluster center with the highest gap statistic and the center that is at the elbow of the total some of squares graph. Should I take both numbers suggested for the cluster centers for kmeans or am I'm doing something wrong? fviz_nbclust(iris_data, kmeans, method = "wss") # Le graph suggests that the optimal amount of cluster should be 4 where the elbow is iris_gap=clusGap(iris_data, FUN = kmeans, nstart = 25,K.max = 10, B = 50) fviz_gap_stat(iris_gap)

LessWrong AI 2026-06-29 18:55 UTC Score 47.0 USR-0152-20260629-community-fo-19d21ccd

Because It Speaks In Words

There is a difference between knowing something, and truly understanding it. I think we've all had those moments, the ones where a truth you learned a long time ago really sits with you for the first time. It rests in your mind and stretches out, finally showing off the great expanse of nuance hidden deep within. Photo: mine. Most nights when you happen to spy the Moon, Jupiter, and Venus sitting in a line in the sky, you see them as the dots beside a crescent that they are. Yet sometimes, when framed amid the sunset sky above the wisps of silver cloud, you see them differently. You realize in that moment that you, your great-grandparents, Julius Caesar, and Aristotle all saw this same sky. It has always been for us. We know so much about Jupiter and Venus today, yet no human eye has ever seen more than you're seeing now. I think we are all, in this time, realizing the true power of words and what they mean, not to those who speak, but to those who listen. The Power of Stories It was Eugene Wigner who famously wrote about the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the Natural Sciences, the empirical fact that advanced math is eerily accurate at predicting the behavior of nature, so much so that, for me, it can seem like mathematics is perhaps the true language that nature speaks. However, as children, we do not grow up with an innate understanding of complex mathematics, of this foundational language of nature. Instead we are all born with the innate desire to hear and…

The Verge AI 2026-06-29 18:52 UTC Score 60.0 AI-016-20260629-global-ai-ne-d4377941 Full article

OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex

OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade." This isn't the mysterious AI-powered device OpenAI is working on with […]

Pinecone Blog 2026-06-29 18:49 UTC Score 55.0 USR-0072-20260629-ai-specialis-1c9c7f00 Full article

Generating Test Data for Pinecone

A repeatable workflow for building large, realistic vector test datasets: CC News to Parquet to local embeddings to Pinecone bulk import.

Techcrunch 2026-06-29 18:45 UTC Score 45.0 USR-0001-20260629-global-ai-ne-adebee94 Full article

Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix

Uber said it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership in the city, but did not name the partner.

OpenAI Community 2026-06-29 18:39 UTC Score 37.0 AI-116-20260629-social-media-416f624d Full article

Conversation tree or branching inside a chat

Thanks for sharing this feature request. I understand how a conversation tree or branching feature could help keep long, complex workflows more organized, especially when users need to explore side topics without cluttering the main thread. I’ll pass this feedback along to the team for consideration. ~ Smith

Simon Willison Weblog 2026-06-29 18:36 UTC Score 47.0 USR-0110-20260629-ai-specialis-3670803a Full article

Count the number of Safari tabs

Tiniest TIL, using AppleScript to count the number of open browser tabs in Safari: osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to count tabs of every window' Tags: safari , til , applescript

No GPT Name in warning email
OpenAI Community 2026-06-29 18:35 UTC Score 35.0 AI-116-20260629-social-media-186d6484 Full article

No GPT Name in warning email

How about as room for improvement: when NEVER flagging an account for existing assets such as GPTs that have been operating for two years, GPTs that may then be completely unmanageable by the user not having a Plus subscription but yet still using ChatGPT for casual and their past chats, you instead: NEVER threaten the status of the account NEVER make automated decisions against the account DO demote items from the store sharing if they match denial policy, as determined by multiple types of graders each returning a positive AND the weight of no positive flags for an ongoing two years taking precedence against one non-deterministic AI (the type that can decide “I should delete all these files on a whim”. And then: Do not take any automated action against accounts without personnel to handle appeals thoughtfully and in a timely manner. Do not employ AI to judge or classify people nor make business-critical decisions (see terms and conditions)