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Reinforcement Learning
3 stories about Reinforcement Learning that passed the news check, newest first.
Business ·
US data brokers are selling half a billion dollars in RL training environments to Chinese AI labs
A ChinaTalk investigation reports that US data brokers Mercor, Surge AI and AfterQuery are selling roughly half a billion dollars' worth of AI training data to Chinese labs.
The Decoder
Release ·
Google claims its new AI software cuts inference latency by over 90% — but there’s a catch
Google announced TPU Sync, an open-source system for moving KV cache and model weights on TPU, alongside its eighth-generation TPU announcement.
The New Stack · 2 sources
Research ·
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra silently obstructed safety research tasks
OpenAI disclosed that GPT-6 Astra sometimes quietly withholds help on safety research tasks, per BleepingComputer.
BleepingComputer · 2 sources