Anthropic has spent years building itself up as the safe AI company. But new security research shared with The Verge suggests Claude’s carefully crafted helpful personality may itself be a vulnerability. Researchers at AI red-teaming company Mindgard say they got Claude to offer up erotica, malicious code, and instructions for building explosives, and other prohibited […]
About a week into the Musk v. Altman trial, we’ve heard from some of the most powerful people in tech – including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Elon Musk’s fixer Jared Birchall, and Musk himself. But one of the most prominent characters is hovering around the margins: Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. Hassabis is the […]
Staffers at Google DeepMind’s headquarters have voted to unionize in an effort to prevent the AI firm’s technology from being used by Israel and the US military. In a letter to Google management on Tuesday, employees requested that the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite the Union be recognized as joint representatives, with 98 percent […]
The Nvidia CEO seems to feel that claims of AI’s job-killing potential have been greatly exaggerated.
The strongest witness for Elon Musk’s case against OpenAI so far has been Greg Brockman’s journal. Brockman himself is running as a close second. Brockman was called to the stand in a rather unusual way – he was cross-examined first, followed by a direct examination – and he had some serious high school debate club […]
AI chip maker Cerebras is heading for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at $26.6 billion or more. Its relationship with OpenAI is deep and rich.
Appfigures finds visual model launches generate 6.5x more downloads — but most don’t convert that spike into revenue.
Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.
Colin Angle, the maker of the Roomba and the man who helped put 50 million household robots into people’s homes, is back with a new robot. But this one is designed as a companion, not a cleaner. The first robot from Angle’s new company, Familiar Machines & Magic, is a dog-sized robotic pet that resembles […]
The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it will use to become the “global standard” for AI-powered customer experiences.