Anthropic evaluates four “sabotage” threat vectors for its Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3.5 Sonnet models and finds that “minimal mitigations are sufficient”
Any industry where there are potential harms needs evaluations. Nuclear power stations have continuous radiation monitoring …
How Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming cracked an encrypted ZIP file containing the code for a system that helped ANC members communicate safely under apartheid
John Graham-Cumming, who happens to be Cloudflare's CTO, cracked a 30-year-old encrypted file that had a role in rewriting South Africa's history.
Meta Quest 3S teardown: uses Quest 2's same LCD panel and cheap Fresnel optics, replaces Quest 3's depth sensor with two IR flood illuminators, and more
The Quest 3S is a curious device. I think we were all expecting a budget version of the Quest 3, but that's not quite what this headset is.
Sources: some at Apple think it is over two years behind the leaders in generative AI; a closer look at changes in Apple's HR and hardware engineering groups
Apple's new iPad mini highlights the company's secret advantage in artificial intelligence. Also: Sonos weighs a headphone reboot …
How Waymo is converting locals and attracting tourists in San Francisco to pull ahead in the robotaxi race, with ~300 vehicles in the city and global ambitions
Just last year, residents wanted to get rid of robotaxis. Now locals and tourists can't get enough. Bluesky: @kimoco.bsky.social . X: @lessin , @ajlamesa , and @paoloigna1 LinkedIn: Mike Schroepfer ,...
Students, academics, and developers say AI writing detectors are most likely to falsely flag essays written in a more generic manner as written by AI tools
About two-thirds of teachers report regularly using tools for detecting AI-generated content. At that scale, even tiny error rates can add up quickly.
DJI sues the US DOD for adding the drone maker to a list designating it a Chinese military company, says the DOD didn't engage on the issue for over 16 months
- US added DJI to list designating it as a Chinese military firm — List aimed at hindering China's access to advanced technology
Six months after the bitcoin halving, some miners hold their bitcoin, while others spend more on developing AI data centers and see the largest stock gains
- Shares of firms keeping tokens they mint are lagging Bitcoin — Best performers are spending on developing AI data centers
Kazakhstan-based Kaspi.kz agrees to acquire a majority share, or 65.4%, of Turkish e-commerce platform Hepsiburada for ~$1.13B, expected to close in Q1 2025
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After allegations of poor working conditions on MrBeast's Amazon Studios show Beast Games, industry insiders call for more safety oversight on creator-run sets
YouTube channels are gaining more mainstream attention — but some in the digital entertainment industry think growth should require better oversight. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . X: @nbcbayarea an...
In a letter, key US lawmakers urged Japan to strengthen restrictions on sales of chipmaking equipment to China or risk facing US curbs on Japanese companies
- China Committee leaders write to Japan's ambassador to US — Failure to act risks new US limits on Japanese firms, they say
Fuji Soft's board decided to keep backing KKR's ~$4B buyout offer despite Bain's $4.2B bid, in a rare battle between PE titans over a Japanese software company
Private equity titans cause a stir in the country, with a rare battle over Japanese software company
A judge grants Google a temporary stay on the Epic ruling while Google appeals, which means Google might not have to change Play Store practices for years
no big Play Store changes just yet Nathan Drescher / Android Police : Google just won a reprieve in the Epic app store battle John Callaham / Neowin : Judge puts a temporary hold on a earlier decision...
Notes on an inexpensive and effective “video scraping” technique in which the user feeds a screen recording into Google AI Studio to extract data with Gemini
Instead of writing a bunch of code, he simply screen recorded himself scrolling through the emails … X: @defnotbeka : to me, this is a stunning indictment of the state of software today Simon Willison...
Meta debuts Spirit LM, its first open-source multimodal language model capable of integrating text and speech inputs and outputs, for non-commercial use only
our first open source multimodal language model that freely mixes text and speech.”
A historical look at Microsoft's work in AI, from research to real-world applications, recent progress, competition, challenges, and the future
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Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on how internet traffic surge during COVID helped it build an AI-ready “connectivity cloud”, internet balkanization, more
I first met Matthew Prince in 2010, the day he l aunched Cloudflare at TechCrunch Disrupt. X: @om , @om , @om , @om , @eastdakota , and @om X: @om : @eastdakota For more insights, check out the full i...
In a filing, WP Engine asks a court in Northern California to issue a preliminary injunction and restore its access to the WordPress.org open source repository
which are gross mischaracterizations of reality—and reserves all of our rights. Automattic is confident in our legal position and will vigorously litigate against this baseless filing, as well as Foru...
Penguin Random House amends its copyright notice globally to prohibit the use of books for training AI; the notice will be included in new titles and reprints
I'd love them to go ahead and sue any end user of generative AI whose content appears to contain their copyrighted material. … X: Paris Marx / @parismarx : “No part of this book may be used or reprodu...
Sources: former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is raising funds for her new startup, which aims to build AI products based on proprietary models
Inside the inaugural Culver Cup, a generative AI film competition sponsored by AWS and FBRC.ai giving filmmakers AI tools and three weeks to submit a short
Marah Eakin / Wired : LinkedIn: Todd Terrazas See also Mediagazer LinkedIn: Todd Terrazas : I grew up reading Wired magazine because my older brother had a subscription. I never dreamt of the day wh...
01.ai, DeepSeek, and other Chinese companies are reducing costs to create AI models by focusing on smaller training data sets, as they deal with export controls
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times : LinkedIn: Kai-Fu Lee LinkedIn: Kai-Fu Lee : Driving down inference cost is the most important thing to enabling great AI-first apps. @YI01_Yi's new model Yi-Lightn...
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