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Anthropic’s powerful new models deliberately become less helpful when they detect users are working on AI research, according to technical disclosures that are already sparking controversy across the industry.In a system card for Mythos 5 and Fable 5 published Tuesday, Anthropic said it limited the models’ usefulness for tasks related…
You no longer have to haul French sunscreens home from your vacation — or pay exorbitant shipping fees — to get your hands on the good stuff.The FDA just approved bemotrizinol (BEMT), an ingredient used in European and Asian sunscreens for over 20 years. It’s the first upgrade to US…
The next phase of the AI race is on.With OpenAI’s Monday confidential S-1 filing following in the footsteps of Antrhopic’s, the two premiere AI labs are now officially in the IPO race. SpaceX, which includes Elon Musk’s xAI, has a head start, and goes public later this week.While OpenAI left…
General Motors wants to use the parked EV in your garage to power the energy grid and potentially lower your utility bills.The legacy automaker is pitching EV batteries as a power source that could help utility companies manage surging electricity demand, as households see rate increases and the US sees…
I know it, and you know it — buying a home has never felt this unaffordable.For years, prospective buyers have faced a punishing mix of too few homes for sale, high mortgage rates, and persistently high home prices. Those pressures have pushed homeownership out of reach for many Americans. Unfortunately,…
Taniquewa Brewster is an assistant property manager, doula, student, advocate, and proud mom of six.The 41-year-old is also a former guaranteed basic income participant in her hometown of Austin, Texas. She was one of 135 low-income households that received $1,000 a month for a year, from September 2022 to August…
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Anthropic is finally willing to give you Mythos, but it comes with some safeguard strings attached.On Tuesday, Anthropic said it was releasing a “Mythos-class” model called Claude Fable 5, but with safeguards so significant that it gave the model a different name.”Without safeguards, Fable 5’s capabilities in areas like cybersecurity…
AI layoffs are everywhere. Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale suspects many of them aren’t because of AI at all.The layoff memos look quite similar, from Block to Atlassian to Coinbase. They cite productivity gains from AI technology and the need for smaller teams with fewer layers.Lonsdale isn’t convinced.”Everyone who over-hired or…
Salesforce laid off more employees in a new round of cuts, according people familiar with the matter and a regulatory notice in California.The cuts affected employees working on the company’s Agentforce AI product, its Mulesoft IT integration tool, and its Marketing Cloud software, one of the people said. The second…
