Anthropic has spent years building itself up as the safe AI company. But new security research shared with The Verge suggests Claude’s carefully crafted helpful personality may itself be a vulnerability. Researchers at AI red-teaming company Mindgard say they got Claude to offer up erotica, malicious code, and instructions for building explosives, and other prohibited […]
About a week into the Musk v. Altman trial, we’ve heard from some of the most powerful people in tech – including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Elon Musk’s fixer Jared Birchall, and Musk himself. But one of the most prominent characters is hovering around the margins: Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. Hassabis is the […]
Last Thursday, in a staged home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I sat on a couch that was a bit too low and a tad too deep in front of a small, beige-colored smart speaker sitting on the middle of a trio of arched midcentury storage cabinets. On either side of the smart […]
Lip-Bu Tan’s leadership of Intel has, since the early months of his tenure, run on a single recognisable pattern: hire from rivals, restructure around the new hires, and rebuild the bench. On Monday Intel announced its latest such move. Alex Katouzian,…
Facebook and Instagram have a new way to detect and remove users under 13: AI bone structure analysis. In a blog post on Tuesday, Meta – Facebook and Instagram’s parent company – says its AI system will scan photos and videos posted to its platforms for “general themes and visual cues,” including height and bone […]
Staffers at Google DeepMind’s headquarters have voted to unionize in an effort to prevent the AI firm’s technology from being used by Israel and the US military. In a letter to Google management on Tuesday, employees requested that the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite the Union be recognized as joint representatives, with 98 percent […]
Microsoft is finally giving up on showing the junk feed of MSN news when you open the widgets feature in Windows 11. After allowing Windows 11 users to disable the MSN feed more than two years ago, Microsoft says it will soon hide it by default as part of an effort to make widgets “quiet […]
The strongest witness for Elon Musk’s case against OpenAI so far has been Greg Brockman’s journal. Brockman himself is running as a close second. Brockman was called to the stand in a rather unusual way – he was cross-examined first, followed by a direct examination – and he had some serious high school debate club […]
Last year, the SEC sued Elon Musk over the way his acquisition of Twitter (now X, and a part of SpaceX) started, and today it announced a settlement that looks like a massive bargain, while Musk’s own lawsuit against Sam Altman continues to play out. A week before the Trump administration took over, the department […]
If you want to give mom something that helps lighten the load, the SwitchBot Bot Rechargeable makes for a great, inexpensive gift. And now through May 10th, you can buy it for around $26.99 ($7 off) from Amazon and SwitchBot (with code FORHER20) as a part of its ongoing Mother’s Day sale, which drops the […]