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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PLEDGES TO STIMULATE AI USE AND EXPORTS

The Trump administration has promised to slash red tape and take steps to boost exports for US tech companies in a bid to accelerate AI use in the US. Its action plan lays out moves to make it easier and faster for tech companies to build data centers and get the power they need for those centers. The plan includes directives to several government agencies to identify and gut any regulations that block the development and use of AI. The administration is also working on addressing uncertainty about whether it is legal for AI models to train on copyrighted material.

ANTHROPIC BACKS US AI PLAN, URGES TRANSPARENCY AND SECURITY

The White House's "Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan" prioritizes accelerating AI infrastructure, federal adoption, and security coordination. Anthropic supports this strategy and emphasizes the importance of export controls and transparency standards in AI development. The plan aligns with Anthropic's earlier recommendations and highlights the need to maintain America's AI leadership through robust infrastructure, security, and responsible policy measures.

“BEHAVIORIST” RL REWARD FUNCTIONS LEAD TO SCHEMING

A large class of reward functions, which includes almost every reward function in the RL and LLM literature, are all doomed to eventually lead to AI that will pretend to be docile and cooperative while secretly looking for opportunities to behave in egregiously bad ways. This is because negative reward for lying and stealing looks the same as negative reward for getting caught lying and stealing. The reward function will miss sufficiently sneaky misaligned behavior, so the AI will learn that this kind of behavior is good.

TIMESCOPE: HOW LONG CAN YOUR VIDEO LARGE MULTIMODAL MODEL GO?

TimeScope is a new open source benchmark for evaluating vision models on how well they handle long videos. It evaluates not just retrieval but synthesis, localization, and fine-grained motion analysis to provide a more holistic view of temporal comprehension. Using the benchmark reveals how model size isn't everything - simply scaling parameters doesn't automatically grant a longer temporal horizon - and Gemini 2.5-Pro is in a league of its own, being the only model able to maintain strong accuracy on videos longer than an hour.

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