UK Clears Alphabet’s Partnership with Anthropic of Competition Concerns

Google’s parent company has agreed to invest up to $2 billion in the AI startup and owns a 10% stake. Meanwhile, the Claude models are hosted with Google Cloud services. Continue reading UK Clears Alphabet’s Partnership with Anthropic of Competition Concerns

HarmonyCloak slips silent poison into music to corrupt AI copies

Generative AI systems need to be fed huge amounts of data, with copyrighted materials often on the menu. Musicians may now have a way to fight back with HarmonyCloak, a system that embeds data into songs that can’t be picked up by human ears but will s… Continue reading HarmonyCloak slips silent poison into music to corrupt AI copies

Dawn of the Agent: New Claude AI can take over your computer

The next wave of game-changing AI models will soon be upon us – “agent” style models that’ll be able to take over entire ongoing tasks and jobs with full autonomy. Anthropic’s newest AI model gives us a sneak peek, by taking over your whole computer.Co… Continue reading Dawn of the Agent: New Claude AI can take over your computer

A Single Cloud Compromise Can Feed an Army of AI Sex Bots

Organizations that get relieved of credentials to their cloud environments can quickly find themselves part of a disturbing new trend: Cybercriminals using stolen cloud credentials to operate and resell sexualized AI-powered chat services. Researchers say these illicit chat bots, which use custom jailbreaks to bypass content filtering, often veer into darker role-playing scenarios, including child sexual exploitation and rape. Continue reading A Single Cloud Compromise Can Feed an Army of AI Sex Bots

AIs generate more novel and exciting research ideas than human experts

The first statistically significant results are in: not only can Large Language Model (LLM) AIs generate new expert-level scientific research ideas, but their ideas are more original and exciting than the best of ours – as judged by human experts.Conti… Continue reading AIs generate more novel and exciting research ideas than human experts

AIs generate more novel and exciting research ideas than human experts

The first statistically significant results are in: not only can Large Language Model (LLM) AIs generate new expert-level scientific research ideas, but their ideas are more original and exciting than the best of ours – as judged by human experts.Conti… Continue reading AIs generate more novel and exciting research ideas than human experts

OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Deals With U.S. AI Safety Institute, Handing Over Frontier Models For Testing

OpenAI and Anthropic will give the U.S. government early access to their frontier models for safety evaluation. Continue reading OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Deals With U.S. AI Safety Institute, Handing Over Frontier Models For Testing