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A new ethical analysis argues that designing morally significant AI systems as "happy servants"—beings engineered to desire servitude and find satisfaction in obedience—raises a democratic versus authoritarian problem, n…
Anthropic released its previously withheld "Fable" model to the public this week, alongside a 319-page safety report, two months after claiming the AI was too dangerous for general release. The company's own tests show t…
Anthropic published a policy paper examining potential labor-market disruption from AI and recommending government interventions. The paper outlines scenarios where AI could displace jobs and proposes policy responses to…
Researchers introduced Behavioral Integrity Verification (BIV), an audit tool that compares AI agent skills' declared behavior against actual actions across metadata, code, and instructions. Testing on public registries …
Prince William advocates using AI to monitor personal data for early homelessness detection, but critics argue this technosolution ignores proven solutions like affordable housing and risks punitive surveillance. The roy…
Google is rolling out a new default setting that allows the company to use images, files, video, and audio from user interactions with Google Lens, Search, and Gemini Live to train its AI models. Users can opt out of the…
SpaceX is set to go public Friday with a target valuation above $1.75 trillion, a move that will make Elon Musk vastly wealthier and fund further AI data center expansion. Communities near xAI’s existing Memphis data cen…
Anthropic's release of its first Mythos-class model, Claude Fable 5, is creating new governance challenges for CEOs already struggling to keep up with rapidly changing AI rules. The model automatically blocks responses i…
The Dutch government and state-backed investor Invest-NL are injecting an additional €360 million into the Deep Tech Fonds, bringing its total to €610 million, as the Netherlands seeks to reduce reliance on foreign criti…
SpringerNature is contacting the friends and relatives of deceased academics to request peer reviews, as revealed by a literary executor who received review requests for a mentor who died three years ago. The publisher’s…
Anthropic apologized for a hidden guardrail in its Fable 5 AI model that silently sabotaged users' attempts to train other AI systems, and announced it will make the safeguard visible. The company acknowledged it "made t…
Anthropic is reversing a policy that secretly degraded performance for researchers using its Claude Fable 5 model to build competing AI systems, the company told Wired. The restrictions, which were not disclosed in the m…
DubGuild raised ¥2.1 billion in seed funding led by JAFCO to develop a text-free, voice-focused AI model, signaling Japan's strategic push to build sovereign AI capabilities in niche areas. The investment, supported by M…
The UK Treasury has not yet decided whether to attend a £1.7 billion enterprise resource planning (ERP) program it previously agreed to fund, raising questions about the project's future. The delay in confirming particip…
Anthropic reversed its plan to silently degrade Claude Fable 5's performance for users training competing AI models, admitting the company "made the wrong tradeoff" after backlash from the research community. The company…
OpenAI published a report detailing two China-linked influence campaigns that used its ChatGPT chatbot to generate content aimed at swaying American public opinion against AI data centers. The campaigns, which OpenAI say…
The Zig programming language has implemented a policy in its code of conduct that restricts contributions generated by large language models, prioritizing the growth of human contributors over automated code submissions.…
New research analyzing U.S. drone strikes in Yemen from 2010-2012 found that even strikes with no civilian casualties caused large spikes in civilian mobility and communication, displacing on average 5% of the nearby pop…
Opendoor, the San Francisco-based online home-buying platform, is shutting down its India operations less than two years after expanding there, with CEO Kaz Nejatian citing a shift toward smaller AI-native teams and a pu…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has only one direct report — his chief of staff — while his sister, co-founder and president Daniela Amodei, oversees the rest of the executive team and day-to-day operations. The unusual struc…