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Don’t Be Cruel to Claude: Anthropic’s New Abuse Policy Tests AI Personhood
Anthropic wants to stop “sustained and needless” cruelty toward its chatbot. But does that imply AI has feelings?
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Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to “Russia’s Google”
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
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The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
TypeSafe AI raised $870 million in a round led by a16Z.
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Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide
An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc.
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OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks
The ChatGPT maker said the researchers “violated clear policies on handling sensitive information.”
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Did Claude Help an Amateur Astronomer Discover a New Planet?
Billions of exoplanets are believed to be out there awaiting discovery. AI—with its ability to sift through mountains of data—could speed that process along.
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Most US Adults Aren’t Ready for AI to Help With Holiday Shopping, Survey Finds
Far more people than last year are willing to use AI to help them find the right gift, but few want a bot handling their payment details.
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Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an 8-Step 7B Image Model
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated checkpoint of its open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 model. It generates and edits images in 8 denoising steps instead of the base model’s 40-step default.
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Contest-Winning Microscope Thrown Out for Using Generative AI
Ning Xu’s winning entry to Nikon Instruments’ Small World in Motion competition was ineligible due to AI, a spokesperson for the contest told Gizmodo.
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OpenAI Decisions API Hits Public Beta With 10x Faster Typed Answers
OpenAI’s Decisions API is now in public beta on GPT-6 Luna. It returns typed probabilities, choices and scores about 10x faster than the Responses API, billing $0.10 per 1M input tokens with no output charges.
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Apple acqui-hires AI startup founded by former NotebookLM developers
The European Union’s Digital Markets Act transparency website lists Huxe as Apple’s newest acqui-hire, and at least the fourth AI-related deal disclosed this year. Here are the details. more…
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An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.
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micro1 commits $1bn to buy company data for training AI agents
AI training company micro1 will spend $1bn over the next 12 months buying and licensing operational data from companies. The San Francisco company announced the plan on Friday. Citi and Hercules Capital are providing the capital. The money goes through micro1’s Company Data Partnerships programme.
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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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Anthropic signs CrowdStrike, Hitachi and 9 more to defend power and water
Anthropic will give its frontier Claude models, engineers and threat research to the companies that guard critical infrastructure. That means power grids, water utilities and transport networks. The Critical Infrastructure Defense Program is the first part of the Anthropic Cyber Mission.
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‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
“Staggering.” “Overwhelming.” “Unprecedented.” “Surreal.” “Pure insanity.”
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Suit says dynamic AI prices at McDonald’s are ‘nickel-and-diming consumers’
An antitrust lawsuit is being brought against McDonald’s alleging the chain is using dynamic AI pricing to rip off customers.
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AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner
New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.
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Wayve and Stellantis tune one AI driver for Fiat, Jeep and Maserati
Every car will one day need an AI driving system, just as it needs seatbelts and emergency braking, Wayve chief executive Alex Kendall said. He spoke with Stellantis chief executive Antonio Filosa at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday. Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas moderated.
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Apple marks first Apple TV 4K ‘vintage’ with new model imminent
The original Apple TV 4K from 2017 has just been added to Apple’s “vintage” products list. Here’s what that means. more…
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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.”
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Nik Storonsky wants Revolut to be Europe’s answer to Meta and Google
Revolut wants to grow beyond banking into a global tech company on the scale of the biggest US groups, but built in Europe, chief executive Nik Storonsky said. He spoke with Exor chief executive John Elkann at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled “Global Champions, European roots”.
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As Apple readies its 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studio for local AI, the M5 Max workstation drops by $200
With Apple prepping the launch of a monster 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studio, I’ve found the M5 Max machine on sale for us mortals who don’t need absolute power.
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‘I use AI to do the things that I’m bad at’: Linus Torvalds on why it works for him
The Linux creator calls vibe coding ‘a wonderful way to find joy in programming,’ but not for running Linux development. (Finding bugs is OK.)
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