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Rubio says Iran deal still possible within days despite US strikes

Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models. What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

IRAN'S PRESIDENT ISSUES DECISION FOR INTERNET RESTORATION - IRANIAN MEDIA - STATE MEDIA

IRAN-US TALKS APPEAR CLOSE TO BREAKTHROUGH; QATAR SAID TO HAVE PLAYED KEY ROLE AS MAIN MEDIATOR IN EASING TEHRAN-WASHINGTON DISPUTE

By all accounts, Trump is very close to accepting a deal to try to open the Strait and essentially punt nuclear talks to the future. And of course, Netanyahu is working against it. I wonder if he will give a speech in Congress.

United States, Iran are close to extending the ceasefire for 60 days

🚨🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran's Armed Forces have entered the highest state of alert. Tehran is reacting to the same signals everyone else is tracking.

🚨🇮🇷 Iran just threatened a "third version of combat" with new weapons and extra regional fronts if the U.S. strikes again... A military source told the state media outlet Tasnim that the armed forces have prepared new scenarios for "any enemy foolishness." The source warned that if the U.S. acts, it will witness "the third version of combat" featuring new equipment, new targets, and new tactics. The most significant phrase: "new extra regional fronts will also make them more regretful." The source claimed the U.S. would face its "third major punishment in less than a year" in "a more specific and new form." This lands after Axios reported Trump is seriously considering a "decisive" strike. Both sides are now openly preparing for round three. Source: Tasnim News Agency

Decent sign that a deal may, in fact, be close.