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Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails. Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jailbreaks exist in other models. So is this a genuine security concern, or just the latest chapter in a messy relationship between Anthropic and the Trump administration? On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Anthony Ha, Sean O’Kane, and Rebecca Bellan unpack what the ban means for developers building on Anthropic’s platform and for anyone…
As India searches for a homegrown contender in the global artificial intelligence race, billionaire Mukesh Ambani is positioning Reliance Industries as a national champion, rolling out AI services for phone calls, mobile apps, and connected homes. At its annual shareholder meeting on Friday, the Mumbai-based conglomerate announced Jio Call Agent, an AI assistant that can join phone calls to transcribe conversations, generate summaries, and perform tasks such as booking cabs, ordering food, and making reservations. The service, which can be activated by saying “Hey Jio,” is expected to launch later this year for Jio’s more than 500 million users. By…
Isn’t capitalism great? Especially the Silicon Valley version: Giving employees a share of the business they help build is one of the most democratic and empowering ways to incentivize hard work.Out here, hard work can sometimes pay off spectacularly: Workers are rewarded handsomely if their toil results in a much more valuable company and their small stakes rise along with it.Take SpaceX. You may have heard that working for Elon is hard. Rockets don’t launch themselves (at least yet). But after many years and long hours, thousands of employees get to share in the success of what has become the…
Months after Amazon deepened its ties with OpenAI, Amazon MGM Studios has dropped plans to release Luca Guadagnino’s star-studded movie about Sam Altman and the leadership crisis that nearly toppled him.”We believe that ‘Artificial’ will be better served if it were released by a different studio and are working closely with the filmmaking team to find the film a new home,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement.Directed by “Call Me by Your Name” filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, “Artificial” is a retelling of the tumultuous few days during which Altman was abruptly fired from and then quickly reinstated at OpenAI.Altman was…
What’s “taste” got to do with it?At Vibecon, a conference bringing together “creatives and AI,” it felt like everything came back to “taste.”The two-day conference was put on by the buzzy vibe-coding company Replit at a downtown New York City venue.Amjad Masad, Replit’s CEO, addressed the conference in his afternoon remarks and threw on a New York Knicks hat. Later, he sat down with filmmaker Spike Jonze to discuss the creative process and Jonze’s film “Her” — a movie about a relationship a man forms with an AI bot. (While “Her” is fictional and was released in 2013, it certainly…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Maahir Sharma, a 24-year-old software engineer based in Dublin. It has been edited for length and clarity.”Are you an AI?”That wasn’t a question directed at me. It was directed at an AI agent I’d built to call hotels and negotiate room rates on my behalf.One night in May, I set the tool loose on hotels across the United States to test whether an AI agent could handle a real-world phone conversation, respond to unexpected questions, and negotiate for me without me having to pick up the phone.I gave the agent a…
With internship application season in full swing, you might be wondering how to make the most of your summer gig — and turn it into a full-time offer.Landing an internship at a Big Tech company is highly competitive, but having one on your résumé can help you get in early. Google offers general online guidance for navigating the hiring process, like being specific about projects you’ve worked on or managed, and keeping your résumé one page.Business Insider spoke to six former Google interns who turned their summer gigs into full-time job offers at the tech giant. They shared their process…
Harvey is burning through a lot more AI tokens. Trillions more.The legal AI startup used 1 trillion tokens in January, CEO Winston Weinberg told the “Sourcery with Molly O’Shea” podcast, released on Tuesday. Harvey’s AI product is used by law firms and corporate legal teams to help draft, review, and analyze documents.The startup’s monthly token use has since ballooned roughly 12X.Weinberg said the company was on pace to use 12 trillion to 13 trillion tokens in a month. A Harvey spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider that the estimate referred to May.”The usage is getting insane,” Weinberg said.Tokens are the chunks…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Cameron Paczek, a 24-year-old software engineer who vibe-coded a DIY flight tracker that projects real-time aircraft movements onto his ceiling. It has been edited for length and clarity.I just moved to a new house a few weeks ago that puts me right under the flight paths of San Francisco International Airport.The planes flying in and out of the airport and the surrounding Bay Area are anywhere from 600 to 1,200 feet above me, and I found myself constantly on flight-tracking apps, running in and out to see all the aircraft.As a…
In artificial intelligence’s funding bonanza, a tiny circle of startups can stack billion-dollar rounds in quick succession, while everyone else fights for what’s left.Less obvious is that the same squeeze is happening to the venture capitalists themselves.”It’s harder than ever to raise a fund as an emerging manager,” says venture capitalist Nisha Dua.A trained lawyer and longtime builder at AOL, she’s spent the last 12 years at BBG Ventures, an early-stage firm that backs female founders and entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds. Business Insider recently named Dua to the Seed 40 list of top women investors.Just as funding has clustered around…