The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic
…And maybe it’ll generate a sense of shame among those who build AI while knowing in their hearts that the outcome may be terrible. The Courting of Olah Olah's appearance…
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The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys
…When PIRG researchers posed as ‘PIRG AI Toy Inc.,’ requesting access to the AI models to build products for kids, Google, Meta, xAI, and OpenAI asked “no substantive vetting questions” as part…
Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice
…Google also lets you upload medical data to Fitbit for its AI health coach to parse. Handing over this kind of data to any AI tool is a risky decision, even if…
Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI’s Soul
…The ChatGPT-maker is racing against Anthropic and Musk’s SpaceX (which now owns a rival AI lab, xAI) to go public. Musk’s status as an OpenAI competitor—who could benefit…
Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
Both Anthropic and OpenAI have announced new AI models in recent weeks that the companies say have advanced cybersecurity capabilities that could represent a turning point in how defenders—and, crucially, attackers…
Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos
…only Mythos but other unreleased Anthropic AI models, too. Thankfully, according to Bloomberg, the group that accessed Mythos has only used it so far to build simple websites—a decision designed to…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’
…You don't need to necessarily buy into a new vision for the world to build with AI. You can build B2B products, you can build consumer tech products, you can build…
AI Just Isn’t Right
…Fact-checkers tend to Google this basic information, and that process, in the form of the search engine’s dreaded AI Overviews, constitutes my main interaction with AI. In my professional opinion…
Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth
…New York University professor and media critic Scott Galloway has been blunt about the way AI and algorithmic platforms are reshaping truth for Gen Z. He argues that AI-powered platforms like…
Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think
…Project Glasswing, she argues, could usher in “a future in which AI helps us move beyond endlessly defending against flawed software and toward building technology that is more secure from the start…