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Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon detailed his disagreements with the AI giant during a Tuesday AMA on X.”If the race is inevitable you should not contribute,” Coxon wrote. Coxon said that Anthropic leadership is wrong to follow a “consequentialist philosophy” about why it needs to participate in pushing the frontier…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Charlotte Mandrier. It has been edited for length and clarity.On Monday, September 14, I was cleaning up my inbox and deleting emails when I saw that Starbucks was collaborating with the Peanuts brand to sell merchandise inspired by “The Great Pumpkin.”I…
The AI world has turned one researcher’s extinction warning into its latest copy-and-paste meme: resign dramatically, accuse your company of racing recklessly toward disaster, then reveal that the supposed threat is a self-painting fake tunnel.The trend was sparked by Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic researcher who previously worked at OpenAI.…
The situation is relatable to anyone who has been in a parent WhatsApp chat: one person says something ridiculous, and everyone else has to react with varying degrees of politeness or directness. Side chats ensue, tensions start to boil.Oreogate is a series of viral Instagram posts from user @ashleighjamz about…
Shuayb Qureshi didn’t know many people in New York, and his work at Meta made it hard for him to find new friends.So, on a whim, the now-31-year-old software engineer started posting videos on Instagram.”I’m like, maybe I can record myself doing some sort of stuff like that, talking to…
Around 7:15 am on Thursday, a photographer in a golf cart trailed a gaggle of young runners in matching black shirts through the southern corner of Central Park. This wasn’t some Instagram-ready Gen Z run club, but had potentially as much virality, if not more, since Jon Gray, Blackstone’s president…
A top White House official publicly accused Moonshot AI of essentially stealing from Anthropic, intensifying the debate over China-based open source AI models.”We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model,” Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology…
