Shane

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Microsoft published a blueprint for proving the authenticity of online content and recommended technical standards that combined provenance manifests, machine-readable watermarks, and cryptographic fingerprints after evaluating 60 combinations of verification methods against various failure scenarios.

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Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro, an updated model that more than doubled performance on a demanding reasoning benchmark compared with its predecessor.

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Google DeepMind published research calling for rigorous evaluation of large language models' moral reasoning and proposed techniques—such as robustness tests, chain-of-thought monitoring, and mechanistic interpretability—to distinguish substantive moral competence from superficial responses.

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David Silver raised $1 billion in a seed round for his London-based start-up Ineffable Intelligence to pursue reinforcement-learning-driven approaches toward a continuously learning superintelligence without relying on large language models.

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OpenAI and Paradigm released EVMbench, a benchmark that measured AI agents' ability to find, fix, and exploit vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts and showed that agents could autonomously exploit most vulnerabilities.

References

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/19/1133360/microsoft-has-a-new-plan-to-prove-whats-real-and-whats-ai-online/

Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online

A new proposal calls on social media and AI companies to adopt strict verification, but the company hasn’t committed to following its own recommendations.

technologyreview.com

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https://the-decoder.com/google-releases-gemini-3-1-pro-with-improved-reasoning-capabilities/

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro with improved reasoning capabilities

With Gemini 3.1 Pro, Google wants to improve the core intelligence of its model family. On a demanding reasoning benchmark, performance has more than doubled compared to its predecessor. But benchmarks are just that: benchmarks.

the-decoder.com

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1133299/google-deepmind-wants-to-know-if-chatbots-are-just-virtue-signaling/

Google DeepMind wants to know if chatbots are just virtue signaling

We need to better understand how LLMs address moral questions if we're to trust them with more important tasks.

technologyreview.com

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https://the-decoder.com/deepmind-veteran-david-silver-raises-1b-seed-round-to-build-superintelligence-without-llms/

Deepmind veteran David Silver raises $1B seed round to build superintelligence without LLMs

Long-time DeepMind researcher David Silver is raising one billion dollars for his London-based AI start-up Ineffable Intelligence, the largest seed round in European start-up history. Instead of training on internet text like today's LLMs, Silver is betting on reinforcement learning in simulated environments to build an "endlessly learning superintelligence."

the-decoder.com

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https://the-decoder.com/new-benchmark-shows-ai-agents-can-exploit-most-smart-contract-vulnerabilities-on-their-own/

New benchmark shows AI agents can exploit most smart contract vulnerabilities on their own

OpenAI and crypto investment firm Paradigm have built EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well AI agents can find, fix, and exploit security vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts.

the-decoder.com

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