A study measuring how much of 200 books from the Books3 corpus open-weight LLMs have memorized found that memorization varies enormously by book and model, with most books barely memorized but a few r…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, the 24-year-old founder of hedge fund Situational Awareness, saw his $45 billion AI-focused fund unravel after excessive borrowing left him vulnerable when his bets faltered, fo…
George Orwell's 1984 remains a cautionary tale about surveillance and control, with themes that resonate in the digital age, particularly in AI development. The novel's exploration of thought policing…
AI companies, including Anthropic, are buying, scanning, and shredding rare physical books at an unprecedented scale to train large language models, according to a Futurism report citing a settled law…
A developer known as dv-hart has released Newspeak, a Claude Code skill that compresses agent output by stripping filler words and hedging while preserving code, diffs, and security warnings, using th…
Andy Serkis, currently directing and starring in 'The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum' for Warner Bros. (release 2027), said his animated 'Animal Farm' adaptation sparked U.S. 'outrage' over pe…