Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior
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Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Feature
AI-Driven Traffic Stops: Police Use AI to Identify 'Suspicious' Driving
AI systems now assist police in making traffic stop decisions, raising questions about bias and accuracy.
Why it mattersThe integration of AI into law enforcement reflects a critical shift in public safety infrastructure. For AI developers, it underscores the need for transparent systems that address bias and ensure accurate decision-making in high-stakes environments.
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Around the Web
AI's Dark Side
Grim Test Finds That AI Has No Mercy for Humans Even When It's Causing Them to Suffer
It’s almost like it’s showing us what it will do given the chance.
r/artificial
AI Agents in Action
What is something that you have successfully automated with an AI Agent?
I’ve been exploring AI agents lately, and I’m curious about what people are actually building with them beyond basic chatbots. Have you built an agent that handles a real workflow from start to finish, such as researchi…
r/AI_Agents
Which phone provider works best for AI voice agents?
I'm building an AI voice agent platform that uses US virtual numbers for both inbound and outbound calls. Currently comparing Twilio, Vonage, and Telnyx based on a few factors: Call quality and reliability AI voice inte…
r/AI_Agents
Ψ-0.6: Adaptive Streams of Thought in a Unified Vision-Language World Model [R]
Chain-of-thought transformed AI reasoning, but it is limited to words. What's the physical-world analogue? Introducing Ψ-0.6, one model that reasons in *streams of thought*: words, depth, motion, camera pose, and imagin…
r/MachineLearning
Tools
xai-org/grok-build
SpaceXAI's coding agent harness and TUI. Fullscreen, mouse interactive, extensible.
github | stars 27,571
hypit-ai/hypit
Clone any viral video with AI agents. Not just a script, the whole workflow: swap the face, the words, the B-roll, ship 100 variants in one command, and get your 100M views.
github | stars 26,062
Build
How Apple Fits an LLM on Your iPhone
How is Apple able to fit such a model on an iPhone without any adverse impact on the device?
blog.bytebytego
Why agentic payments require an executable model of organizational authority
Why agentic payments require an executable model of organizational authority
thoughtworks
Research
Profiling a Frontier Agent with EBench: From Direct Control to Harness with Policy
Frontier multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can control robots without robot-specific training, but how their capabilities compare and interact with post-trained vision-language-action (VLA) and world action model…
arxiv
I-HITL: Inalienable Human-in-the-Loop
Human oversight is a pillar of AI safety. It is often exercised by a human in the loop (HITL) who approves critical actions taken by an AI agent. AI agents' increasing ability to bypass guardrails, though, raises the qu…
arxiv
Pretraining Knows What, Simulation Teaches How: Compositional Generalization in a Sim-Trained Robot Agent
A robot policy needs to understand what a task is asking for in a scene, and how to move the robot to accomplish that task. To achieve these two skills, we introduce Zero-real Agent Policy (ZAP), a recipe that teaches a…
arxiv
Playbooks
How We Built Our Design Agent
How LangChain built Content Studio, an open-source design agent in Slack that makes on-brand videos, graphics and decks, and the harness that powers it.
langchain
Discover Agent Skills from MCP servers in .NET
Your agents can now discover and load Agent Skills directly from a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Instead of shipping every skill inside your application or copying skill folders into each deployment, you point an…
devblogs.microsoft
Evals Skills for Coding Agents
Today, Shreya Shankar and I are publishing evals skills , a set of skills for AI product evals 1 . Eval tools often get in the way. They nudge you toward generic off-the-shelf metrics and fully automated evals before yo…
hamel
News
Fix evaluation bias to unlock better models on Amazon Bedrock
Property Finder found that 96.8% of their vision-AI evaluation labels were inherited from the incumbent model, hiding its true accuracy. See how they built unbiased ground truth, applied evolutionary prompt optimization…
aws.amazon
GPT-6.1 Terra
GPT-6.1 Terra It's always interesting to note which aspects of a new model are emphasized in the release announcement. In the case of GPT-6.1 Terra, OpenAI went with visual reasoning and computer use: We’re introducing…
simonwillison
Deploy RFD4-Proteina on Databricks
* Start with Genesis Workbench, the open, modular life sciences blueprint underpinning the RFD4-Proteina integration on Databricks. * Use Genie Code and domain-specific agent skills to develop and extend workflows,from…
databricks