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A Singapore court has fined a French student S$600 ($465; £348) for licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine and replacing it in its dispenser. Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, 19, pleaded guilty to one count of disorderly conduct. Maximilien, who studies in Singapore, posted the video of himself licking the straw on Instagram
For a year now, AI security testing company Andon Labs has tasked frontier models with various real-world tasks to determine how well they perform as agents operating for long periods without human supervision. On Wednesday, Andon published a new installment about how things are going in its Vending-Bench research, where the lab has cutting-edge models
