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Amit Katwala

Reporter · US

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Sep 25, 2026
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Sep 14, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Amit Katwala

    The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector (opens the original)

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    The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called “Polygraph+” or “Polygraph Next”, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning and on a technique called “standoff sensing”, which refers to the ability to take physiological readings from a subject without attaching a device to their person. According to details of the budge

  2. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Amit Katwala

    AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues (opens the original)

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    A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by Google DeepMind, could have implications for alignment researchers trying to keep swarms of autonomous AI agents in line. Researchers at frontier labs hope large swarms of agents working together will speed up the rate of scientific discovery. But their behavior can be unpredictabl

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