In an essay, the head of Anthropic laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.
Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s chief executive, in February. “Over the last few months, I have become convinced that fully addressing the risks requires even more prudence,” he wrote in an essay.
A demonstration of Anthropic’s Claude Cowork A.I. agent in May. The company’s employees have been talking about the risks of artificial intelligence after a colleague, citing dangers, resigned this week.
The state was the first to pass a law banning Kalshi and Polymarket. A lawsuit filed by a federal agency may set a precedent on who gets to regulate them.
The girl group Flo performing in London last year. The Grammy-nominated trio typically use some level of live Auto-Tune to smooth out their vocals, they said.
Reviews by the Canadian Center for Child Protection and The New York Times found that explicit images of children remain on the social media site owned by Elon Musk.
After an Anthropic researcher quit, warning that the A.I. race is “gambling with our lives,” Cade Metz joined Natalie Kitroeff on “The Call” to break down what’s at stake.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that prohibits social media platforms from providing addictive features to users under 16, the first law of its kind in the nation.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s actions follow a series of social media trials this year, in which thousands of teenagers, schools and states have accused Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube of hooking young users with products being compared to cigarettes.
In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine whether the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.
Their warnings echo concerns that other artificial intelligence experts have voiced in recent months, as calls increase for a slowdown in the pace of development.
The state is considering extending the life of its last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, and allowing construction of new reactors to help meet its clean energy goals.
Established nuclear plants like Diablo Canyon in California tend to produce relatively affordable power.
The Amazon-owned driverless car company is a distant second to Waymo. Its pitch to riders? Wine pop-ups, festival sponsorships and a car built to be filmed.
Related to a set of equations about fluid mechanics, the “Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem” has long ranked among the great unsolved problems in mathematics.
Muse, Meta’s new A.I. agent, acts as a personal digital assistant that connects to Facebook and Instagram, as well as third-party apps such as Spotify and OpenTable.
Researchers at Calif, a security company, recently built a hacking tool in a little more than a week that could run roughshod across WeChat, the popular messaging platform.
Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition. Its maker says the drug also seems to reduce the biological hallmarks of age.
Rentosertib, Insilico Medicine’s small-molecule drug candidate developed and designed using generative A.I. for treating chronic lung disease, at the company’s research and development facility in Shanghai.
Washington imposed sanctions on Inspur because of its work with the Chinese military. But the company’s subsidiary kept shipping Nvidia’s best chips to feed China’s leading A.I. firms.
Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.
Teresios Bundi, who ran an essay-writing business catering to overseas students, said his experience with artificial intelligence was a warning for online gig workers.
The tech giant must pay $3,000 per pirated book that it used to train its chatbot. Many authors fear they could lose funds to others in the book business.
An Anthropic logo at an event in San Francisco in May. The tech giant will have to pay more than $1.5 billion in a settlement over using books to train its chatbots.
Filings made Friday in The New York Times’s closely watched lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft included a range of copyright law and cultural references.
The New York Times claims in a lawsuit that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed on publishers’ copyrighted material by using their articles to train artificial intelligence.
The blog Krebs on Security reported on an identity theft service trying to sell scans of licenses and other documents belonging to people in Canada and the United States.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it would examine whether the company’s new self-driving taxi, which has no steering wheel, meets federal auto regulations.
The survivors contend that the company should have notified the police when it shut down the shooter’s disturbing ChatGPT account eight months before the February attack in British Columbia.
Researchers investigating how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure weren’t allowed to look at the incident’s full scope.
The acquisition of the start-up is an indication of Nvidia’s growing role as Silicon Valley’s central banker and its emphasis on open-source technology.
Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, has overseen the company as its quarterly profits have increased tenfold. The company is spending those resources on acquisitions, including of Hugging Face.
After finding antitrust violations, federal courts have been reluctant to impose harsh sanctions. They fear meddling in markets where technology is racing ahead.
When Anthropic goes public in a blockbuster offering, which investors will profit? The answer says a lot about how much start-up investing has changed over the years.
Tenants in public housing in Concord, N.H., were troubled to learn the wide array of data that new monitors in their homes collected, including decibel levels, Bluetooth signals and motion.
The department argued in a court filing that OpenAI legally used articles by The New York Times to develop A.I., adding that national security depended on American tech dominance.
In a long-awaited decision, a federal judge said Google must change its ad tech business to address antitrust issues, but did not disclose the measures.
Apple’s more recent iPhone models include the ability to communicate with emergency services by text chat over a satellite connection, as well as a demonstration mode.
Initial results showed that residents of Independence, Mo., voted overwhelmingly to recall an official who backed billions of dollars in tax breaks for a data center.
Organizers of the recall vote said the councilman, John Perkins, had failed to engage the public while the city negotiated with the developer of a data center project.
John Ternus, right, who became Apple’s chief executive on Tuesday, with Tim Cook, who held the job for 15 years, at the Sun Valley Conference in Idaho in July.
State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant’s new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.
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