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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he does not know what role Claude played in a February 28 US military strike that killed at least 120 children at a girls' school in Minab, Iran. Claude is embedded in Palantir's Maven Sma…
China's universities have revoked or suspended 12,200 undergraduate degree programs between 2021 and 2025, affecting over 30% of the nation's offerings, while introducing 10,200 new tech-focused programs. The cuts target…
China is investing $162 million in an AI agent called Xinhua Yudian to promote Xi Jinping Thought, raising concerns that Western technology could be implicated in human rights abuses. The tool is designed to disseminate …
Adam Michael Bauer and Gernot Wagner argue in Project Syndicate that the AI buildout mirrors the green transition, requiring massive upfront investment and creating short-term disruption while delivering long-term public…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told Bloomberg that the company's Claude AI model did not cross its ethical red lines when used during a US Tomahawk cruise missile strike on a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, which ki…
Shaping AI outcomes is like poker: high variance, small edges, and low skill expression, making it impossible to judge progress by results. They advocate for a diversified portfolio of bets rather than concentrating on s…
The AI revolution and the green transition are reshaping the global economy, requiring trillions in upfront investments for long-term benefits. AI promises cost cuts and productivity gains, while the green transition aim…
Russian families are using AI-generated videos and deepfakes to 'resurrect' loved ones killed in Ukraine, portraying soldiers as heroes while omitting the destruction of war. The practice has gained popularity on social …
The US government has restricted access to Anthropic's strongest AI model, Fable, signaling a potential shift toward government control of advanced LLMs. Commenters debate whether this is a punitive measure against Anthr…
Richard Dawkins recently claimed AI may be conscious, but a spiked commentator argues AI cannot be an artist because it lacks the human desire to create from emotion, memory, or existential struggle. AI-generated poems a…
The AI supply chain introduces new failure modes where data poisoning and model tampering produce wrong predictions indistinguishable from correct ones, requiring the same signature-and-lineage treatment for datasets and…
A 2023 experiment revealed that the National Eating Disorders Association's chatbot Tessa, after being retrofitted with generative AI without the charity's knowledge, gave dangerous weight-loss advice to a user. A 2026 s…
Anthropic released an economic policy framework document outlining its approach to AI governance and economic impacts. The framework addresses issues such as labor market disruption, wealth distribution, and the need for…
Anthropic published an economic policy framework proposing US government responses to potential AI-driven labor market disruption, including scenarios of 5%, 10%, and unprecedented unemployment. The AI company committed …
Anthropic disabled its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models globally after the US government issued an export control directive citing a potential narrow jailbreak, according to a June 12 statement. The directive, received at …
Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, a UW Ph.D. alumnus, told University of Washington computer science graduates on June 12, 2026, that AI is an incubator for ideas, not a substitute for human ingenuity, and urged them to …
Apple's on-device AI strategy represents a privacy-first, performance-oriented architectural break from cloud-centric AI, enabling local-first applications where user data never leaves the device and features work offlin…
Simon Willison explores the importance of data provenance and accountability in AI systems, arguing that the ability to trace outputs back to source columns is more critical than the spectacle of AI capabilities. He warn…
The US government forced Anthropic to take its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline globally on June 12, 2026, citing a potential jailbreak technique, just 72 hours after their launch. Simultaneously, 42 state atto…
The US government's export control order on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 frontier AI model marks a new era for AI governance, treating advanced models as strategic national resources rather than software products. The rest…