‘This should terrify you’: Meta Superintelligence safety director lost control of her AI agent—it deleted her emails
Jude Cramer / fastcompany - As built-in AI pops up in more aspects of everyday life, laymen are counting on the experts to keep technology safe to use. But one Meta employee’s misadventure with AI has social media users fearful for the future of AI alignment.Summer Yue is the direct…
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How an AI doomsday Substack post caused a mini market crash
Catherine Baab / qz - After a Substack post laid out a striking economic warning, major indexes and a handful of individual stocks sank. The response was telling
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US gov't warned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Lisa Su that China could invade Taiwan by 2027 — Apple CEO reportedly said he sleeps 'with one eye open'
tomshardware - A new investigative report from The New York Times reveals that, in July 2023, senior US intelligence officials privately briefed some of the tech industry's most powerful executives on classified assessments regarding China and Taiwan.
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Apple will start manufacturing the Mac mini in the US later this year
Reece Bithrey / theshortcut - With a brand new 220,000 square foot plant
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Anthropic accuses Chinese firms of distillation attacks
Tom Chivers / semafor - Distillation involves training less capable models on more advanced ones’ output.
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Reddit hit with $20 million UK data privacy fine over child safety failings
abcnews - Britain’s privacy watchdog fines Reddit nearly $20 million for unlawfully collecting and using children’s personal data
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Why Tesla is fighting the DMV after already changing its product names
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Tesla has filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against the California Department of Motor Vehicles, according to CNBC. The automaker seeks to overturn a DMV ruling which determined its marketing practices were deceptive regarding vehicle automatio…
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Stocks fall on US tariff uncertainty
J.D. Capelouto / semafor - “Uncertainty is back,” one banker told the Financial Times.
- Cryptocurrency tumbles as macro shocks and tariff fears bite (3)
- Tariff uncertainty from Washington sends global markets reeling (8)
- Wall Street rattled by viral AI doomsday essay and selloff (12)
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Cryptocurrency tumbles as macro shocks and tariff fears bite
Tariff uncertainty from Washington sends global markets reeling
Wall Street rattled by viral AI doomsday essay and selloff
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Sam Altman is tired of ‘unfair’ critiques about AI’s energy use. Climate experts say his defensive stance is misguided
Kristin Toussaint / fastcompany - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has defended the resource-intensive use of AI by comparing it to all the energy—and food—that humans require, sparking a wave of backlash across social media. That comparison, experts in climate and tech spaces say, is misguided, dow…
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Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude to improve their own models
Jackson Chen / engadget - Anthropic is issuing a call to action against AI "distillation attacks," after accusing three AI companies of misusing its Claude chatbot. On its website, Anthropic claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax have been conducting "industrial-scale campaig…
- Allegations arrive amid export-control debate and industry lobbying pressure (3)
- Anthropic details ‘distillation’ attacks: 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million queries (11)
- Online critics ridicule Anthropic, accuse hypocrisy and industry posturing (5)
- OTHER: Chinese firms' growth and unrelated community reactions (1)
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Allegations arrive amid export-control debate and industry lobbying pressure
Anthropic details ‘distillation’ attacks: 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million queries
Online critics ridicule Anthropic, accuse hypocrisy and industry posturing
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Crypto.com Wins Conditional Approval for US Banking Charter
PYMNTS / pymnts - Crypto.com says it has gotten conditional governmental approval for a bank charter. The conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) allows the digital assets company to charter Foris Dax National Trust Bank, doing busines…
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Global regulators say AI image tools don't get a free pass on privacy rules
Carly Page / theregister - Watchdogs warn models that can generate realistic images of people must comply with data protection laws A global coalition of privacy watchdogs has fired a warning shot at the generative AI industry, saying companies churning out realistic synthetic imag…
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Ofcom issues largest-ever Online Safety Act fine
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Ofcom has issued the largest fine to date under the Online Safety Act (OSA), demanding that 8579 LLC pays £1.35m for failing to implement age verification on its pornographic sites. The regulator launched an investigation into the company, which owns doze…
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on AI DoD model use
cnbc - Anthropic does not want its AI models to be used for autonomous weapons or to spy on Americans.
- Accusations of Chinese firms siphoning Claude via 'distillation' attacks (6)
- Anthropic-backed Super PAC launches AI regulation ad blitz (1)
- Claude Code launches and market shock reverberate across tech stocks (8)
- Pentagon showdown: Anthropic CEO pressed over military access limits (5)
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Accusations of Chinese firms siphoning Claude via 'distillation' attacks
Anthropic-backed Super PAC launches AI regulation ad blitz
Claude Code launches and market shock reverberate across tech stocks
Pentagon showdown: Anthropic CEO pressed over military access limits
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Sam Altman Would Like To Remind You That Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too
msmash / slashdot - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is pushing back on growing concerns about AI's environmental footprint, dismissing claims about ChatGPT's water consumption as "totally fake" and arguing that the fairer way to measure AI's energy use is to compare it against humans.…
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America's Peace Corps Announces 'Tech Corps' Volunteers to Help Bring AI to Foreign Countries
EditorDavid / slashdot - Over 240,000 Americans volunteered for Peace Corps projects in 142 countries since the program began more than half a century ago. But now the agency is launching a new initiative — called Tech Corps. "It's the Peace Corps, but make it AI," explains Engad…
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Tumbler Ridge suspect's ChatGPT account banned before shooting
bbc - OpenAI said the account's activity did not meet the threshold to flag it to authorities when it was identified.
- ChatGPT account flagged months earlier; banned before the shooting. (5)
- Employees debated alerting Canadian authorities over chatbot logs. (4)
- OpenAI's post-shooting communications and policy fallout in Canada. (3)
- Other: unrelated AI-misuse case from South Korea. (1)
ChatGPT account flagged months earlier; banned before the shooting.
Employees debated alerting Canadian authorities over chatbot logs.
OpenAI's post-shooting communications and policy fallout in Canada.
Other: unrelated AI-misuse case from South Korea.
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Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK
BeauHD / slashdot - Backlash intensified against Discord's age verification rollout after it briefly disclosed a UK age-verification test involving vendor Persona, contradicting earlier claims about minimal ID storage and transparency. Ars Technica explains: One of the major…
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Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the cou…
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AI Safety Meets the War Machine
Steven Levy / wired - Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.
- DC: Congress, PACs battle over AI rules and influence (2)
- On the ground: Anthropic resists military use, Pentagon pushback (7)
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- Wall Street reels as Anthropic's Claude Code disrupts cybersecurity stocks (6)
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DC: Congress, PACs battle over AI rules and influence
On the ground: Anthropic resists military use, Pentagon pushback
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Wall Street reels as Anthropic's Claude Code disrupts cybersecurity stocks
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