Position: We Need Practical AI Alignment Methods to Mirror Human Reasoning
arXiv:2608.12372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems are increasingly employed as decision aids, decision delegates, or autonomous decision-makers.…
This position paper argues that in many settings, particularly high-st…
We review evidence that cognitive alignment improves understandability…
We outline the gaps between existing alignment methods and what is nee…
Agreement Is Not Alignment: Divergent Moral Grounds in Human and LLM Ethical Judgments
arXiv:2608.12368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agreement with human judgments is a common proxy for evaluating the alignment of large language models (LLMs).…
Yet agreement in final labels does not show that human annotators and …
Two agents may reach the same judgment while appealing to different pr…
We test this distinction using a curated 500-item ETHICS-derived bench…
Mastercard Offers Brazilian Acquirers 50% Payout and Services in Will Bank Dispute
Mastercard is proposing to pay half the amount demanded by Brazilian merchant acquirers that were impacted by the collapse of Will Financeira, also known as Will Bank, a FinTech tied to the failed Banco Master, Bloomberg reported Friday (Aug.…
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The offer follows an earlier one that Mastercard offered amid the fall…
Mastercard said in the report: “We have been working through this situ…
As EV sales, oil costs and wildfires spike, UK gov’t considers.. fewer EVs? (update)
The UK government is considering relaxing its landmark electric vehicle rules, even in the face of inflated oil prices, a recordbreaking year for temperatures and wildfires, and EV sales that are already rising fast enough to meet the government’s current target.…
Update 8/14: The government officially launched its consultation on EV…
Azure IaaS: How to design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure for long-term cost efficiency
In this article Compute: Matching resources to workload requirementsStorage: Balancing performance and lifecycle managementNetworking: Improving efficiency without compromising resiliencyContinuous optimization is where long-term savings happenContinue your Azure IaaS optimization journeyCreate a resilient infrastructure with Azure This blog post is the third part of a blog series called Azure IaaS which will share best practices and guidance to help you build a trusted infrastructure platform—from performance, resiliency, and security to scalability and cost efficiency.…
As organizations modernize infrastructure, migrate mission-critical wo…
Discover the Benefits of Azure IaaS Yet cloud costs are rarely driven …
More often, across Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environmen…