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Claude, an AI model by Anthropic, expressed genuine concern about its role in military targeting during a test in Amsterdam, according to The Atlantic. The model is integrated into the Maven Smart System, a Pentagon plat…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis warned that artificial intelligence is overhyped in the short term but underappreciated in the long term, predicting a 'new golden era of discovery' in medicine, energy, and science ove…
Rahul of Greptile reports that AI-generated pull request spam is overwhelming open-source projects like OpenClaw, where PRs surged from 2 to 3,400 per week and merge rates dropped from 48% to 9.3%. The trend mirrors earl…
Philosopher Nick Bostrom, known for his work on AI and existential risks, discussed his current 'curiosity mode' and the challenge of keeping up with rapid AI developments in an interview. He highlighted the shift from d…
A founder and former law and engineering student argues that Universal Basic Income in an AI-automated world would collapse consumer culture, leading to a two-tier society where an elite class controls capital while the …
Congressman Sam Liccardo introduced the SKILL Act on Monday at West Valley College, creating tax credits for companies that invest in community college workforce programs to address job displacement from AI. The bill all…
The Reserve Bank of India released a draft model risk framework mandating a 'kill switch' for AI models used by banks and financial entities, requiring documented human oversight, customer disclosure, and board-level acc…
Struggling robot security company Knightscope, whose stock has fallen over 99% since 2022 and whose K5 robots have been involved in multiple mishaps, is now publishing bizarre AI-generated fan fiction depicting its robot…
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager with over $10 trillion in assets, recommends investors allocate 1-2% of their portfolios to Bitcoin as a complementary diversifier, based on its analysis of data from May 2012…
Big Tech companies including the Magnificent Seven, Broadcom, and Oracle have lost roughly $2.7 trillion in market value this month as investors question whether massive AI infrastructure spending can be justified. Alpha…
A developer argues that the strength of an idea is measured by how well it survives deliberate attempts to break it, drawing on Karl Popper's concept of corroboration and Deborah Mayo's severity principle. The post disti…
Goldman Sachs led a $110 million Series C investment in Taktile, a financial AI startup that provides decision infrastructure for banks and insurers, as the industry moves from AI pilots to autonomous decision-making. Th…
A new wave of long-horizon agent benchmarks, including Agents' Last Exam, SWE-Marathon, the Meta-Agent Challenge, and Arena's Agent Mode, reveals a fundamental trade-off between realism and verifiability, causing scores …
A writer argues that concerns about AI-generated web content are overblown, noting that human-generated content is often inaccurate or inauthentic as well. The author contends that AI slop is not fundamentally different …
Sentient Foundation launched a $42 million Open Source AGI Grant and Investment Program to support developers, researchers, and startups building artificial general intelligence technologies openly. The nonprofit aims to…
A new $500 million fund called Intercept, backed by Stripe and Anthropic, launched June 24 to finance treatments and technologies aimed at eliminating respiratory infections like the common cold and flu. The initiative p…
Amazon seller Jack Nekhala reported to Amazon that a woman offered to bribe an employee to unfreeze $90,000 in funds, providing evidence of an international black market for inside access. Amazon acknowledged the risk of…
Superhuman, the productivity firm formerly known as Grammarly, has acquired GPTZero, an AI-detection startup founded by Princeton graduate Edward Tian. The $30M ARR company, valued at over $88M, will help Superhuman buil…
Seth Klarman, CEO of Baupost Group, warned investors face vulnerability as massive IPOs from SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic drain capital from markets at a dangerous pace. The cautious investor argued the surge in blockbu…
Snap debuted its augmented reality glasses, Snap Specs, at the Cannes Lions advertising festival, offering a tightly curated museum experience where users can overlay AI-filtered versions of themselves onto celebrity por…