Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities
Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery:Charlesarthur /The Overspill:Start Up No.2621: Anthropic's doomed military standoff, chatbots v PDFs, ChatGPT's bad health, 25 years after the ...
Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech
Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …
The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity
On Anthropic and the Department of War — I. — A little more than a decade ago, I sat with my father and watched him die.
Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data
On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …
Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. — ― Pericles
US DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein ingratiated himself with top Microsoft executives, aiding his return to society after his release from prison in 2009
For more than two decades, the convicted sex offender developed a network at the tech giant, making him privy to succession discussions and other business.
In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more
until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the...
Lawyers for a teen who died by suicide after allegedly discussing methods with ChatGPT call OpenAI's request for all memorial documents “intentional harassment”
Family of teen who took his own life after ChatGPT use alleges chatbot maker intentionally weakened protections X: @cristinacriddle , @justinbullock14 , @grady_booch , @sachalouise...
A teen's parents allege OpenAI loosened ChatGPT's suicide-talk rules to boost engagement before their son died by suicide using a method discussed with ChatGPT
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Sources: Sequoia COO Sumaiya Balbale resigned after the firm refused to discipline partner Shaun Maguire over his comments calling Zohran Mamdani “an Islamist”
Sumaiya Balbale left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline outspoken investor for posts about New York mayoral candidate
Two Wikipedia contributors disarmed a gunman who threatened to kill himself at WikiConference to protest a policy banning editors who identify as pedophiles
After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World's Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.
Q&A with Peter Thiel on economic and technological stagnation, US growth and dynamism, supporting President Trump in 2016, the future and risks of AI, and more
The original tech right power player on A.I., Mars and immortality. — 1.7k … Ross Douthat: Is Silicon Valley recklessly ambitious?
How “AI slop farmer” Jesse Cunningham targets older women on Pinterest and Facebook with AI-generated copies of content from real bloggers and creators
“It's just a bunch of fraud.” — Last year, Jesse Cunningham — a self-described “SEO specialist who leverages the power … Bluesky: @alkal , @roxanna , @wagatwe.com , @eddierobson ...
a16z hires former Marine Daniel Penny, who in December a New York jury acquitted in a controversial subway chokehold case, to work on its American Dynamism team
“Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation,” said partner David Ulevitch in a statement explaining the hire.
Elon Musk fanboy Adrian Dittmann's X activity and alleged 4chan posts suggest he might be Musk's fake online persona; source: the viral 4chan screenshot is fake
www.theverge.com/2025/1/3/243... [embedded post] Justin Baragona / @justinbaragona : According to The Verge, that screenshot that seems to tie the Adrian Dittmann account directly...
Elon Musk says the US SEC sent him a “settlement demand” after its Twitter buyout probe, asking him to agree to a fine within 48 hours or face numerous charges
www.theverge.com/2024/12/12/ 2... Elizabeth Lopatto / @lopatto : Musk also asked his AI, Grok, to draw a picture of Gensler. The image depicted a snail in a business suit, seeming...
Musk says the SEC sent him a “settlement demand” after Twitter buyout probe, asking him to agree to a fine within 48 hours or “face charges on numerous counts”
The Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing “numerous counts” against Elon Musk …