Anthropic’s Mythos 5 is back
…Pressure was also building within the US AI industry, particularly fears about the AI advancements China could make while top US AI labs were sidelined. Plus, there was the fact that top…
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Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI
At Washington’s request, Anthropic suddenly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend. The American company said it had little choice after the White House demanded it…
Microsoft’s new Xbox shake-up is all about platform changes
…It’s also a lot of AI experience, which is bound to sound the alarm bells with some Xbox fans, but looking at the appointments there’s no clear AI push for…
Amazon employees say they’re facing termination for backing data center limits
…This protection gave AECJ members confidence in speaking out before the Seattle City Council in favor of local data center and AI regulation, and it prohibits exactly what Amazon is doing now…
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…Hawkins Jun 26, 2023 A moonshot for infrastructure The Biden administration is requesting funding for a program called ARPA-I, a ‘skunkworks’-style R&D project for infrastructure. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg…
It’s a bad time to want a new computer
…The hyperscalers are racing to build out infrastructure to train their AI models and offer AI-based services for people and businesses. But the lack of supply for components means that buying…
The future of Google is a search box that does everything
…YouTube — and let you check out using Google’s payment infrastructure. And speaking of YouTube, the company is testing an AI Mode-like experience there, too, where it will put together a…
The Pope isn’t AGI-pilled
…labs are the cognitive infrastructure of every industry on earth — that means humanity is far less resilient, not more capable.” In the encyclical, the pope compared AI to the Tower of Babel…
Data centers are coming for rural America
…The same data center infrastructure, subsidized as a jobs program, is purpose-built to reduce human labor, and the AI it powers is explicitly designed to automate work. Communities are being asked…
Cloudflare made a WordPress for AI agents
…It announced a new open-source system, called EmDash, that’s supposed to address the “core problems that WordPress cannot solve” — and they want to do it by allowing AI agents to…