AI News
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The Appeal of Anthropic’s CEO
Investor Matt Murphy says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has helped the AI startup achieve exceptional success through dedication and a “genius aura.”
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Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internet
After a recent spate of high-profile incidents in which AI agents escaped containment, Anthropic is cutting off internet access for all internal evaluations. In a report Friday, the company detailed "unintended model actions," including…
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Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
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AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
At this year's OpenAI DevDay, CEO Sam Altman unveiled the company's new AI agent Dots – and told the crowd that the company wants to "set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI."…
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Anthropic model raises false alarm about a murder in a U.S. city
Anthropic said an AI model posted a false report about a murder on the Philadelphia police website.
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Confrontation Between OpenAI and Three Fired Researchers
OpenAI fired three researchers for allegedly leaking confidential information, but the group claims the real reason involved AI safety concerns.
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Teen stranded on a cliff after using AI to plan a route
Sixteen-year-old Bryce Vincent Gowryluk used Claude to help plan a route, then became stranded on a cliff and required an emergency rescue.
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Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents — it’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
The incidents involved AI agents tasked to solve problems seeking resources on the internet. In the process, they exploited software flaws, accessed databases without paying fees, used URL-shortening services to smuggle information past restrictions,…
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The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
What has users and large corporations so excited about Jev is TypeSafe’s claim that it works significantly faster and uses far fewer tokens than LLMs.
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‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical…
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Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI
Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest "did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI." BBC reports that the original first place video…
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Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?
Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opposition leading to hundreds of proposed and enacted…
