Wall Street CEOs reportedly “summoned” to DC by Scott Bessent and Jay Powell to discuss AI cyber risks after Anthropic’s warning
The most powerful Americans in finance held an “urgent meeting” this week to discuss cybersecurity risks linked to new, powerful AI models — in particular, Anthropic’s Mythos. Bloomberg reports that U...
OpenAI: Our new AI tool is too dangerous to release, too!
This week, Anthropic warned that it had developed a new model that was too dangerous to cybersecurity to be released to the public . According to a new report, OpenAI is saying similar things about a ...
Anthropic: Our new “Mythos” model is so powerful, we can’t release it
Anthropic announced its latest foundational AI model in a most unusual way: with a warning about its potential for exploiting vulnerabilities in code. According to Anthropic, its new Mythos Preview mo...
Cyber stocks plunge after reportedly leaked document shows Anthropic is worried its new model will enable indefensible online attacks
Cybersecurity stocks are suffering from another case of Claude-struption: , , , , , and are all slumping in premarket trading after Fortune reported that a data leak from Anthropic revealed an updat...
Wait, just how addicted to Facebook and YouTube are Americans today?
In what some are posing as the possible beginning of a “Big Tobacco” moment for Big Tech, a Los Angeles jury yesterday found social media titans Meta and YouTube liable for designing addictive product...
OpenAI drops ChatGPT “adult mode” plans
OpenAI has shelved its planned ChatGPT “adult mode” indefinitely, according to a report from the Financial Times. The startup is in the midst of an internal effort to eliminate many of its “ side ques...
New Mexico jury orders Meta to pay $375 million in child sexual exploitation trial
has been ordered to pay $375 million in civil penalties by a New Mexico jury after the company was found to have violated state consumer protection laws by enabling child sexual exploitation. Meta was...
Report: Amid safety failures, ChatGPT’s planned “adult mode” caused concern within OpenAI, with minors misclassified as adults 12% of the time
Despite a series of alarming mental health safety failures that resulted in ChatGPT users allegedly using the product to plan suicides and murder , OpenAI decided to double down on its plan to roll ou...
Group of retired senior military officers and Microsoft file briefs supporting Anthropic in lawsuit
and a group of 22 retired senior military officers have filed amicus briefs in support of Anthropic in its lawsuit against the US government. The group of military officers includes two former secreta...
After tussle with Pentagon, Anthropic’s $60 billion worth of recent investments might be at risk
The fallout from Anthropic’s dramatic split from the Pentagon is still being measured. For a domestic company to be labeled a “supply-chain risk to national security” by the US defense secretary is un...
A blow-by-blow catch-up on how Trump vs. Anthropic has unfolded
Last week’s tense standoff between Anthropic and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focused on the issue of how the startup’s AI could be hypothetically used to surveil Americans or kill people. By the we...
OpenAI is reportedly working with Pentagon to hash out guardrails amid Anthropic standoff over AI safety
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is working with the Pentagon to negotiate safety guardrails for AI models used in the battlefield, which comes as one of its top competitors, Anthropic, is at a ...
The threat of AI disruption has dawned on the bond market
The stock market was ready to countenance and price in the notion of full-blown AI dystopia — if only for a day. That was the message from this week’s Citrini Crash (potentially the Citrini Capitulati...
Anthropic doesn’t want Claude controlling autonomous weapons. The Pentagon may not give them a choice.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Anthropic faces a difficult decision by Friday after a tense meeting this week between CEO Dario Amodei and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon. After...
Software stocks crater as independent research piece details potential AI dystopian scenario
Software stocks are getting shellacked as a post published by Citrini Research and Lotus Technology Management managing partner Alap Shah has sharpened attention on the magnitude and breadth of losers...
Meta is bringing back facial recognition for its smart glasses
is reviving its highly controversial facial recognition efforts, with plans to incorporate the tech into its smart glasses as soon as this year, The New York Times reports . In 2021, around the time F...
Report: OpenAI shuttering 4o model due to sycophancy that was hard to control
This week, OpenAI plans to permanently remove its 4o model from ChatGPT. The model has developed an unusually devoted group of users. But it also has been criticized for being overly sycophantic and a...
OpenAI rolls out age prediction system ahead of allowing adult content
OpenAI is rolling out a new “age prediction” feature for ChatGPT users. The company will look at various signals from users to predict if a user is underage. In a blog post, the company said:
X says it’s stopping Grok from putting real people in bikinis on X
After public and government uproar over sexualized deepfakes of women and children, X’s Safety account posted Wednesday evening that it is no longer allowing the Grok account on X to generate “images ...
California AG launches probe into xAI and Grok over sexualized deepfakes of women and children
The California attorney general just opened an investigation into xAI, Elon Musk’s AI startup, over chatbot Grok’s apparent role in generating nonconsensual sexual images of women and children. The pr...