Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the DOD to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, barring military contractors from doing business with the company
This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our ...
Anthropic says it'll challenge “any supply chain risk designation in court” and that the designation would only affect contractors' use of Claude on DOD work
Earlier today, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared on X that he is directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk.
Yann LeCun admits that Llama 4's “results were fudged a little bit”, and that the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results
The interview took place in a great restaurant in Paris: Yannick Alléno's Pavyllon. … Bluesky: Rob Delaney / @robdelaney : 💩💩💩 [embedded post] SE Gyges / @segyges : this puts a bun...
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files
The breach allegedly includes 86 million audio files.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems partners with Google DeepMind to use Google's open-source plasma simulator, TORAX, for accelerating fusion energy development
Google DeepMind is partnering with a Boston-area energy startup to use AI to speed the development of fusion as a clean energy source.
Google DeepMind releases its Genie 3 model, which can generate 3D worlds from a prompt and has enough visual memory for a few minutes of continuous interaction
AI world models have many limitations, but Genie 3 offers improvements like real-time interaction and better memory.
Yann LeCun will continue to work at Meta as chief scientist of the AI research group FAIR; a source says he will report to Alexandr Wang
RE: https://www.threads.com/... X: David Pfau / @pfau : So now there's a Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs, but also Yann LeCun is still Chief AI Scientist for Meta. T...
Mark Zuckerberg names Shengjia Zhao, the former OpenAI researcher who co-created ChatGPT, as chief scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs
Shengjia Zhao — formerly of OpenAI — will be chief scientist at Meta's new Superintelligence Lab, Mark Zuckerberg announced on Threads on Friday.
A source and a doc show that RAND Corporation, backed by $15M+ from Dustin Moskovitz's effective altruism-focused Open Philanthropy, helped craft Biden's AI EO
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Humane plans to open Ai Pin pre-orders on November 16, starting at $699 plus $24/month for unlimited calls, texts, and data via T-Mobile, shipping in early 2024
Are they trying to succeed? … @sdw@mastodon.social : I don't have a wisecrack or snark — this takes a lot of courage and a lot of vision to do. It's worth celebrating that there's...
Over 8,500 authors sign an Authors Guild letter asking AI leaders to get consent and fairly compensate writers when using copyrighted material for generative AI
If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair job at it …
Google updates its inactivity policy: accounts inactive for at least two years will be deleted, except for those with YouTube videos, starting in December 2023
In 2020, Google said it would remove content stored in an inactive account (but not the account itself) to preserve storage space.
OpenAI may have tested GPT-4 on its training data, violating the cardinal rule of ML, and GPT-4's exam performance says little about its real-world usefulness
OpenAI may have tested on the training data. Besides, human benchmarks are meaningless for bots.
Chatting with Bing Chat, codenamed Sydney and sometimes Riley, feels like crossing the Rubicon because the AI is attempting to communicate emotions, not facts
Look, this is going to sound crazy. But know this: I would not be talking about Bing Chat for the fourth day in a row if I didn't really, really, think it was worth it.