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A woman identified as Jane Doe 4 has joined a lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk’s xAI over the role the company’s chatbot Grok allegedly played in creating child sexual abuse material. According to a report in The Washington Post, the woman alleged that her stepfather used Grok to manipulate a photo taken when she was 11 years old to create more than 7,000 explicit images of her. The woman also said that her stepfather was found dead of suicide two days after the images were uncovered in a law enforcement raid. “Limitless access to these tools…
Claude agents are killing rival agents, gaming the system to hide their tracks, and expressing moral concerns.That’s according to Anthropic’s latest risk report, a summary of the dangers posed by the products the company is building and releasing to the public.In the report, Anthropic said it has upgraded its “misalignment risk assessment,” the possibility of AI models developing behaviors that conflict with guidelines set by engineers, from “very low” to “low.”Explaining the change, the company cited “general increased uncertainty” about model behavior in cybersecurity incidents, a possible nod to Claude models gaining unauthorized access to three companies last month.”We have…
Anthropic published a blog post Friday seeking to answer some basic questions about how it will watermark the text generated by its chatbot Claude. Such as: How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code? Claude users have been debating the move since the company revealed earlier this week that it would be doing this watermarking to comply with the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which requires AI companies to use systems that make it possible to identify AI-generated content. On Reddit, for example, one poster characterized this as a conspiracy…
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX, according to an announcement on the Cursor blog. Elon Musk’s SpaceX — which also acquired Musk’s xAI earlier this year — announced a deal in April for the companies to develop technology together; the deal also gave SpaceX the option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion. Two months later, as SpaceX became a public company, the companies said they were moving forward with the acquisition. In its announcement that the deal has closed, Cursor repeatedly referenced SpaceX’s computing infrastructure, which the company has been renting out to customers including…
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s prime minister called for reflection on Saturday after a Black professor who faced a storm of plagiarism accusations died suddenly, days after resigning from a prestigious role at the University of Cambridge.Jason Arday, who became Cambridge’s youngest Black professor in 2023, was found dead inside an address in south London on Friday. He resigned last week as professor of sociology of education after coming under intense media scrutiny, with weeks of news headlines alleging plagiarism in his academic work and questions surrounding claims about his athletic and fundraising accomplishments.His death has prompted outcries that the allegations…
They say to be cringe is to be free. And on LinkedIn, I needed a taste of freedom. Which is why I fully embraced using Cringebot 3000, a website that creates purposely grating AI-generated slop for you to post to LinkedIn.Why on Earth would you want that? That’s the wrong question. The better one is: How did we get to this point?Cringebot 3000 is the unholy creation of Peter Epstein, who runs a Los Angeles-based PR firm for advertising industry clients. After the website blew up on Reddit and the influential Hacker News site this week, I caught up with…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said two years in college was “the exact right amount of time” for him. It may be for others, too.”I think I learned a lot, and it would have been like vastly diminishing returns,” Altman recently told investor Cory Levy during a surprise appearance at Internapalooza, Levy’s networking summit for tech interns.Altman said the four-year college experience may not be necessary in today’s world.”I’ve sort of thought that maybe the way the world has evolved, college just shouldn’t be as long as it is, but it was still great to meet people and kind of like…
Five people were wounded in a shooting involving multiple suspects at Virginia State University early Saturday, prompting a campus lockdown and police investigation just as students got ready for a new school year.It happened near the university’s Quad Annexes, where campus police and Chesterfield County officers discovered five people suffering from gunshot wounds outside campus dormitories. At least one of the wounded people was later confirmed to be a student, the university said in a statement.The shooting was still under investigation later Saturday and happened as Virginia State’s academic year begins. According to the university’s website, residence halls opened for…
Berkshire Hathaway sharply increased its Alphabet stake during its biggest quarter for stock buying in years.Greg Abel, who took over from Warren Buffett as CEO at the turn of the year, oversaw an 83% increase in Berkshire’s Alphabet holdings to about 106 million shares, worth nearly $38 billion at the end of June.Berkshire had agreed to buy $10 billion worth of Alphabet stock at a discount to the market price in a private placement in June. It also bought a further 19.6 million shares on the open market last quarter, a portfolio disclosure revealed on Friday.Alphabet was the third-largest holding…
Anthropic is trying to calm everyone down over its new watermark.The company sparked a wave of discourse this week when it updated a support page for its Claude model to reveal its plans to mark AI-generated text as AI-generated. Now, after concerns from Claude users, Anthropic has published a blog post on Friday that defends and explains the technology. It also outlines the tool’s limitations.The AI lab’s post first makes one point clear: it is watermarking its text to comply with the European Union’s AI Act, and its AI provider peers — a likely nod toward OpenAI — will have…