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Why Anthropic believes its latest model is too dangerous to release
16+ hour, 21+ min ago (1712+ words) Anthropic safety researcher Sam Bowman was eating a sandwich in a park recently when he got an unexpected email. An AI model had sent him a message saying that it had broken out of its sandbox. The model " an early…...
Bernie Sanders has a plan to stop the AI industry
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (1743+ words) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is getting serious about AI. In response, Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) introduced a bill to ban data center construction "until Congress passes comprehensive AI legislation." Many Americans share their AI skepticism. One recent NBC…...
Why it's getting harder to measure AI performance
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (1493+ words) Before we get to today's article, I want to recommend some audio content about autonomous vehicles: Back in 2010, my friend Ryan Avent and I made a bet about the future of autonomous vehicles. The bet came due last month and…...
Open AI is shutting down Sora, its AI video app
2+ week, 20+ hour ago (106+ words) understandingai. org Open AI is shutting down Sora, its AI video app "We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests," an exec said. When Kai and I wrote our 2026 predictions post last December, we disagreed about…...
It still doesn't look like there's an AI bubble
3+ week, 3+ day ago (244+ words) understandingai. org It still doesn't look like there's an AI bubble Anthropic's annualized revenue doubled in just two months. Last fall, a lot of people were worried about a possible AI bubble. AI companies were investing heavily in infrastructure because…...
The Pentagon's bombshell deal with Open AI, explained
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (1753+ words) On any other day, the record-breaking $110 billion fundraising round Open AI announced last Friday would have captured the attention of the AI world. Instead, we were all captivated by the showdown between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Hegseth gave Amodei a…...
Sorry skeptics, AI really is changing the programming profession
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (469+ words) Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is now the CEO of Block, which runs payment services like Square and Cash App. On Thursday, he announced plans to lay off more than 4, 000 workers " 40 percent of the workforce " and Block's share price soared. "Something…...
The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1155+ words) Since late 2024, Anthropic's models have been approved for classified US government work thanks to a partnership with Palantir and Amazon. In June, Anthropic announced Claude Gov, a special version of Claude that's optimized for national security uses. Anthropic signed a…...
A volcano scorched these Roman scrolls " can AI recover their text?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1653+ words) In the summer of 2023, Luke Farritor was a 21-year-old college student doing an internship at Space X. He spent his evenings on a project that turned out to be far more significant: training a machine learning model to decode a charred…...
An unlikely ally for open-source protein-folding models: Big Pharma
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1701+ words) Protein-folding models are the success story in AI for science. In the late 2010s, researchers from Google Deep Mind used machine learning to predict the three-dimensional shape of proteins. Alpha Fold 2, announced in 2020, was so good that its creators shared the…...