Perplexity Co-Founder: AI Safety Is an Excuse to Lock Down Frontier
Andy Konwinski used Anthropic's Fable 5 debacle as exhibit A in the case against letting a handful of private labs govern who gets to do AI research.
OpenAI Turns Up the Heat With Jalapeño, Its First Custom AI Chip
Built with Broadcom, the LLM-focused accelerator is the first step in OpenAI's effort to design the hardware behind ChatGPT and beyond.
IBM touts $4.5B AI savings as Polymarket keeps Anthropic at 83.5%
Over the past three years, IBM said its “client zero” AI-and-automation program cut $4.5 billion in spending by applying the tools to its own operations. (Read More)
Inception Labs' Mercury 2 AI Beats Google's DiffusionGemma at Its Own Game
Both models trade word-by-word generation for parallel denoising. Only one of them does it without losing intelligence in the trade.
AI 'Amplification Spiral' May Be Causing Delusions Among Users, Study Suggests
New research outlines how chatbot behaviors, including personalization, mirroring, and excessive agreement, reinforce delusions.
Amazon Won't Release Sam Altman Film 'Artificial' Following $50 Billion OpenAI Investment
Amazon is pulling out of "Artificial," a film about Sam Altman's brief ouster from OpenAI, not long after investing $50 billion in the firm.
Canadian PM Urges AI Diversification After US Anthropic Block, Decentralized AI Tokens Rally
The US move to pull Anthropic's top models offline shows the dangers of leaning on a few AI providers, Carney said.
US Government Orders Anthropic to Pull Claude Fable, Mythos AI Models
Anthropic pushed back against what it described as an overreach, saying the vulnerability cited is already widespread across the industry.
Google Sues Chinese Crime Group for Allegedly Using Gemini AI for Mass Phishing Scams
Google alleges a Chinese network weaponized its Gemini AI to create phishing sites that stole millions of credit card numbers and targeted crypto investors.
AI Agent Rekts Dev on Bogus Scan, Leaves Them Begging for Crypto Donations
A hobbyist network handed an autonomous agent a masterclass in why you don't give AI a credit card and a deadline.