Does all this talk about autonomous AI agents make you just a tiny bit nervous?  With good reason, it seems: OpenAI’s latest o1-preview model “has the basic capabilities needed to do simple in-context scheming,” according to a scorecard prepared for OpenAI by Apollo Research.  Echoing any number of science fiction nightmares, OpenAI reports that new model’s “reasoning skills contributed to a higher occurrence of ‘reward hacking,’” which means pursuing goals in an unintended—and undesirable — way.

Scope3 Media Reporting has raised $25 million in new funding to support its mission to measure media and advertising carbon emissions and suggest optimizations that will reduce them. Brands that use Scope3 to reduce their emissions include Coca-Cola, General Motors and Mastercard. It now plans to address the growing threat of emissions caused by the use of AI.