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Closed AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are allegedly sabotaging startups in potential competitor domains by injecting bugs, throttling performance, and introducing inconsistencies, according to a Hacker News post.…
Amazon cybersecurity research and CEO Andy Jassy's conversations with the White House triggered an export control directive that forced Anthropic to block foreign nationals from accessing its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI mode…
A supply chain attack on the Arch Linux User Repository compromised over 1,500 packages, highlighting vulnerabilities in open-source distribution channels. A new open-source tool, repo-slopscore, detects AI-generated cod…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreed an £18bn investment deal with Japan to boost post-Brexit trade, including nuclear research with Rolls-Royce and AI investment from Eisai. However, the deal faces scrutiny as a separa…
A coalition of state attorneys general, led by New York and California, has launched an investigation into OpenAI's ChatGPT over its impact on young users, issuing a subpoena for documents on user engagement, data handli…
A San Mateo County man convicted of child molestation, Carl Cacconie, was recaptured in Scottsdale, Arizona, after disappearing nearly 10 months ago while awaiting sentencing. He had been allowed to remain free on bail w…
Anthropic disabled its advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers on June 12 after a U.S. export control directive citing national security concerns, including a potential jailbreak. The move escalates U.S…
Business Insider reports that multiple AI startup founders and workplace experts said their companies never enforced formal return-to-office mandates, citing a high-trust, voluntary in-person culture. Vipul Ved Prakash, …
OpenAI faces a multistate probe into user safety, receiving a subpoena from several state attorneys general over concerns that its ChatGPT chatbot may encourage self-harm and criminal acts. The investigation comes days a…
Fable 5 and Mythos 5 remain suspended as the standoff with Anthropic continues, with the ball now in Anthropic's court to resolve the situation.
Amazon and the White House intervened to end Anthropic's Fable, a project that raised concerns about AI safety and government oversight. The move highlights growing tensions between private AI development and federal reg…
Anthropic disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for all customers after the Trump administration issued an export control directive citing national security concerns. The order, received Friday, requires …
Companies often fail at their first AI pilot not from lack of ideas but from choosing an overly ambitious use case that tries to prove AI is impressive rather than testing whether the organization can embed AI into a rea…
Anthropic benefits from the US government's export ban on Fable/Mythos, validating its claim that the AI model was too dangerous to release. The ban provides a free pass to miss revenue targets, creates compute breathing…
KPMG withdrew a report on AI usage after multiple organizations, including UBS and the UK's National Health Service, disputed its claims. Research group GPTZero attributed the inaccuracies to AI hallucinations, suggestin…
A citizen argues that AI is inherently political technology that will corrode liberal democracy by amplifying capital concentration, even if it improves material well-being. The author, a lawyer and designer who sued gen…
Anthropic disabled two of its most advanced AI models, Claude Mythos Preview and related models, after a U.S. government export control directive cited national security concerns. The company had previously hyped the mod…
Anthropic released its Mythos-class AI model as Fable with guardrails, but a trusted partner discovered a jailbreak exposing advanced cyber capabilities. The US government asked Anthropic to fix the vulnerability or de-d…
The US government issued an export-control directive suspending foreign-national access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing national security concerns over a reported jailbreaking method. Anthropic must di…
A developer expresses anger over the takedown of a capable AI model called Fable, arguing that powerful institutions are centralizing AI capability and gating access behind clearances and vetting. The author warns that t…