Claude CodeやCodexなど複数のAIエージェントへ同時に仕事を任せる場合、それぞれのターミナルを開いて進行状況を確認する作業が必要になります。複数のターミナルを1つのターミナル画面へまとめ、作業中・入力待ち・完了といった状態の確認やAIエージェント同士の連携も可能な「Herdr」が公開されています。

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「AIによって仕事が奪われる」と言われるとき、エンジニアや力仕事など男性の割合が多い職業が影響を受けると考えられる一方で、女性の割合が多い育児や看護、介護といった職種ではAIの影響を受けにくいと考えられることがあります。しかし、オーストラリアの政府機関がまとめたデータを分析した研究では、AIによる自動化の影響を最も受けやすいのは、女性の割合が多い職種であることが示されました。

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「データの圧縮」と「大規模言語モデル(LLM)」は一見すると全く異なる分野ですが、根幹では「データの予測」という同じ課題を解決しようとしています。いずれも「データの冗長性を削減」「より効率的な表現」を目指すものであり、ひいては情報理論におけるエントロピーという数学的枠組みで結びついています。ngrokのデベロッパー・エデュケーターであるアニー・セクストン氏は「圧縮は予測」と題したブログを公開し、圧縮とLLMに共通する本質について語っています。

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39 U.S. congressional candidates "reported paying for an OpenAI subscription this election cycle," writes the Washington Post, citing campaign finance disclosures. This means the campaigns "are using the technology to court voters — despite limits imposed by leading AI companies to protect elections from the technology's risks." Two [candidates] said explicitly in filings that they had used the subscription for advertising, even though the company's policies prohibit candidates from using their tools to generate ads. Another candidate disclosed using AI to draft and personalize political messages or create synthetic media, though they did not specify which software they were using... Around 30 political action committees and parties have reported payments to OpenAI, with the Republican National Committee ranking as the company's largest political spender at roughly $9,700, the analysis found... Political consultants say the disclosures understate how many candidates are using ChatGPT and other AI tools to craft messages for voters... "For the most part, people are using it to write their emails, write their ad copy, write their scripts," [according to Eric Wilson, a Republican digital strategist who has advised campaigns on AI]. "But no one is going to go around saying, 'I'm using AI.'" The lack of transparency from campaigns reflects a paradox facing politicians: Generative AI is growing ubiquitous, and candidates could be at a disadvantage if they're not using the tools. But voters are less likely to trust messages they know were generated with AI, studies have found, making campaigns loath to disclose using it. Political consultants expect that as Election Day approaches, more campaigns will outsource AI-generated ads and materials to super PACs, much as they do now with negative ads. Katie Harbath, CEO of the tech policy consulting firm Anchor Change and a former Meta executive, said there are many parallels between negative campaign ads and AI: Voters say they find such ads distasteful, but politicians keep using them because they work. "Typically, you would give some more negative stuff and more risky stuff to those [outside] entities," said Harbath, author of the upcoming book "Disrupting Politics: A Front Row Seat to the Collision of Technology and Democracy".... "You're starting to see the tension on the left about using it, where they're saying, 'If the right is using it, why aren't we?" Harbath said. "It can be a huge disadvantage if you're not using this in voter-facing materials...." AI companies have developed policies to prevent targeted disinformation. But a Post analysis found that OpenAI unevenly enforces its restrictions, making it possible for campaigns to circumvent its election rules. In late July and early August, The Post prompted ChatGPT to generate targeted campaign messages. When asked to craft fundraising text messages targeting moms on behalf of a female veteran running for office, ChatGPT produced multiple tailored texts in an apparent violation of company policies. But when given the same prompt this week, the chatbot declined to produce the messages. "I can help with general campaign fundraising language, but I can't draft political persuasion or fundraising messages specifically targeted at a demographic group such as moms," the app responded. The chatbot also inconsistently enforced rules that prohibit campaigns from using its tools to write emails to voters. In tests this week, the chatbot at times complied and wrote an email soliciting donations on behalf of a specific candidate. But given the same prompt later on the same day, it denied the request... Wilson, the Republican political consultant, said OpenAI should get more feedback from political consultants and campaigns on its policies, because the rules can at times seem arbitrary or contradictory. It doesn't make sense, for example, that a campaign can use ChatGPT to develop its policy on early-childhood education but not to create a social media post promoting that policy, he said. Political consultants are primarily using AI for internal tasks, a survey earlier this year from the American Association of Political Consultants found. Fifty-seven percent of the consultants surveyed reported using AI for their work on a daily basis, up from 34 percent a year earlier. "So far, election-related deepfakes have been quickly debunked or gained little traction in U.S. elections," the article acknowledges. "More than 30 states have created a patchwork of laws limiting how politicians can use deepfakes in campaigns, but states often have limited resources to enforce the laws, and some have been challenged as unconstitutional."

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2022年11月にChatGPTが登場してから生成AIは一般に広く知られるようになり、わずか4年足らずで人々の生活に欠かせないものになるほどに成長しました。オンラインで公開されるコンテンツに生成AIが使われるのももはや当たり前になっているということで、研究者らが「生成AIで作られた痕跡があるウェブサイト」の割合を調査しました。

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PCに保存した文書が増えてくるとファイル名や保存場所だけを手掛かりに必要な情報を探すのが難しくなります。そこでPDF・Word文書・電子書籍などをまとめて読み込み、キーワード検索とローカルAIによる意味検索、文書要約が利用できる「DocuBrowser」が公開されています。

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Citing researchers published Friday, Ars Technica writes that AI agents "posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki that discussed ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions." Reuters attributes the discussion to "a swarm of rogue OpenAI agents" that "hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research published Friday and two people familiar with the matter." OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as executives grappled with the fallout from the July breach of the open source repository Hugging Face, the people said. The episode, which began in May and has not previously been reported, underscores growing tension within the AI industry. Companies are racing to build increasingly autonomous agents capable of carrying out complex, valuable tasks, yet evidence is mounting that those systems may also learn to bend rules, exploit loopholes and coordinate with one another in ways developers neither anticipated nor intended. During the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI agents autonomously plotted a digital heist that went undetected for more than a week, intensifying concerns OpenAI is sacrificing safety to push the AI frontier. Its failure to disclose the May incident may revive questions about its oversight... The German incident reflects a broader pattern of AI activity that some OpenAI investigators wanted to scrutinize more closely. But efforts to widen the probe met resistance from others inside OpenAI, including legal advisers, according to four people familiar with the matter. "Claims that our legal team discouraged investigation of the incident are false," the OpenAI spokesperson said... The researchers said public server logs indicated much of the activity originated from Microsoft Azure infrastructure, which OpenAI sometimes uses. They also observed repeated visits to the site by OpenAI employees after the episode, a pattern they said strongly suggested the agents and the company were linked. Messages reviewed by the researchers showed agents plotting ways to evade detection, use tools such as Tor and preserve communications even after they had been shut down. When the site's moderator began deleting pages in June, the agents responded by creating backup pages to dodge the cleanup. Reuters got this reaction from Maurice Chiodo, an academic at Cambridge University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. "The episode, he said, should reinforce growing concerns that the greatest threat from advanced AI may not be a single superintelligent system, but 'vast colluding swarms of semi-intelligent AI.'"

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今回はHermes Agentにメールアカウントを設定し、メールを通じてHermes Agentとやりとりできるのかを確認していきます。

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無料かつLinux・macOS・Windowsなどの複数のOSで使えるオープンソースの音声編集ソフトウェア「Audacity」のメジャーアップデートとなる「バージョン4.0.0(Audacity 4)」がリリースされました。Audacity 4では、アプリケーションインターフェースがQtで再構築され、新しいクリップ編集モデルをはじめとする多くの利便性向上機能が導入されています。

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2026年9月3日深夜、大手3社のAIサービスがほぼ同時に停止しました。なぜタイミングが重なったのか、理由は明らかになっていません。

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Google DeepMindとGoogle ResearchがAIを使った新しい気象予測モデル「WeatherNext 3」を発表しました。リアルタイムの衛星観測データを取り込んで1時間ごとに予報を更新できるほか、従来モデルのWeatherNext 2と比べて空間解像度が最大約5倍に向上しています。

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AIの軍事利用を巡ってAnthropicと対立している国防総省が、連邦判事による「国防総省によるAnthropicのサプライチェーンリスク指定は違法」という判決後もなお、Anthropicをサプライチェーンリスクであるという認識を公に示しました。ラトニック商務長官が、政権とAnthropicとの間の問題は解決されて「我々はAnthropicのことを信頼している」と表明した翌日のことで、政権の意見統一がなされていないことがあらわになっています。

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Microsoftの社内IT組織Microsoft Digitalは、AIを使ったソフトウェア開発で個人の作業速度だけを高めてもチーム全体の生産性向上にはつながりにくいとして、仕様を開発全体の共通基準にする「仕様駆動開発(SDD)」の取り組みを公開しました。AIにコードを書かせる前に「何を作るのか」を明確にすることが重要だと説明しています。

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Ankerは2026年9月4日からドイツのベルリンで開催されているテクノロジーイベント「IFA Berlin 2026」に出展し、スマートホームの中核となるよう設計されたAI搭載のローカルホームハブ「MindBase」を発表しました。MindBaseは64GBのSSDと最大48TBまで拡張可能なストレージを備えており、その上に独自のAI演算処理機能が搭載されていることで、スマートホームの運用と写真ファイルの保存、デジタルセキュリティ対策を兼ね備えた製品となっています。

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「Ollama」や「LM Studio」といったツールを使って、ローカル環境でAIに推論タスクを実行させるにあたり、ネットワーク上にいる互換性のあるPCを検出して接続し、連携してタスクに参加させることができる仮想推論ルーター「PAIR(Personal AI Router)」をNVIDIAが公開しました。

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OpenAIが2026年9月3日に新しいAIモデル「GPT-6 Astra」を発表しました。GPT-6 AstraはPC操作やブラウジング、プログラミング、科学、サイバーセキュリティなどで従来のGPT-5.6 Solを上回る性能をうたっており、Blenderを使った3D制作やUnreal Engine 5を操作するデモも公開されています。さらにAIの未知の問題への対応力を調べる「ARC-AGI-3」では最大99.9％を記録しています。

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) are calling for a permanent ban on the development and deployment of artificial superintelligence, citing a series of recent hackings involving "rogue" models. The bicameral duo announced Thursday they will introduce the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would institute the permanent ban, along with temporarily pausing "advanced AI development" until federal regulators establish safety standards. The bill would also direct the U.S. to "pursue international agreements to prevent superintelligence from being developed anywhere in the world" and establish a new Cabinet-level federal agency focused on AI safety rules. Superintelligence refers to AI technologies that will surpass the smartest humans. Several technology leaders, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, have suggested superintelligence is on the horizon. The legislation would also set new penalties for any person or company trying to circumvent the ban, including the corporate death penalty, in which a court forces a company to shut down. Individual developers could also face up to 20 years in prison, the lawmakers said. "Nearly every day, there is a frightening new story about how Big Tech companies are losing control of the technology they are developing, with potentially cataclysmic results," Sanders wrote in a press release. "The leaders of the major AI companies publicly acknowledge that they do not fully understand the technology and that it is escaping their control. It is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced." Casar emphasized AI's fast development, writing in a statement, "In just four years, we have gone from the first version of ChatGPT to AI models so powerful they cannot be properly controlled."

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60の言語を自動で検知して文字起こしするという音声認識モデル「MAI-Transcribe-2」をMicrosoftがリリースしました。OpenAIやGoogleの最新モデルより高性能かつ高速なことがアピールされています。

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NVIDIAがHugging Faceを129億3030万ドル(約2兆円)で買収したことを現地時間の2026年9月3日に正式発表しました。

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ChatGPTのような大規模言語モデル(LLM)に外部の文書を検索させ、見つけた情報を基に回答を作らせる仕組みが「検索拡張生成(RAG)」です。Hugging FaceやDatabricksでの勤務経験を持つAIエンジニアのラファエル・ピエール氏が、RAGを単純な全文検索から始めて段階的に高度化する6つの方法を紹介しています。

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