…At previous I/O conferences, Google debuted similar AI features, like the now defunct Duplex, which called companies on your behalf to set up restaurant reservations or salon appointments. Google continues to…
…These requests will instead be rerouted to an older AI model, Claude Opus 4.8. If Anthropic suspects a user is trying to conduct distillation—training a smaller AI model off a…
Olah commented on the oddness in his remarks at the Vatican. “I want to begin with something that may sound strange coming from the cofounder of an AI company, and someone who…
…But using these tools to build datasets that instruct AI systems on navigating computers without human supervision appears to be a new tactic—and one that doesn’t sit right with many…
…approach to AI development.” Microsoft employees have long raised concerns about AI furthering oil and gas production. Recently, employees at Meta petitioned against the rollout of tracking software on their laptops to…
…According to reports in The South China Morning Post, the rollout will initially cover North America, Japan, Singapore, and Europe. There's no exact on-sale date for the robots yet, but…
…The NSA’s testing or adoption of Anthropic’s AI tool appears to have proceeded in spite of the Department of Defense’s declared ban on Anthropic, which followed Defense secretary Pete…
Meta spent the better part of a decade working to deploy end-to-end encryption by default across all of its chat apps. It was a saga—fraught with both technical and…
…But the wave of takeovers illustrates the risks of off-loading security functions to AI—particularly at companies like Meta, which has very publicly touted its all-in approach to adopting AI…
…China has long been known for having cheap labor, but domestic manufacturers have a large appetite for automation, Shangguan says. “When I visited EV factories in China and talked to the production…