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Cloudflare lets Mythos loose on live code, says AI is too powerful for public release
Cloudflare’s CISCO has been evaluating Mythos Preview and appears to have come to broadly the same conclusions as Anthropic about the advanced AI model’s capabilities.
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“Poisoning the well:” EY retracts cyber report packed with AI slop
Consultancy group Ernst & Young (EY) has withdrawn a cybersecurity report after an investigation by GPTZero found that 70% of the citations within it were either fabricated or broken.
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Meta will lay off 10% of workforce on Wednesday and transfer 7,000 employees to build AI agents
Meta detailed its layoff plans for this week in a memo shared with employees on Monday, saying cuts to its workforce globally would be accompanied by a fresh round of organizational changes aimed at improving the company's AI workflows.
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Pope Leo to address AI in his first encyclical with Anthropic co-founder
Pope Leo XIV will release his first in-depth encyclical on May 25th. The Holy Father will elaborate on the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) and the challenges for workers.
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Elon Musk loses lawsuit against OpenAI as jury sides with AI giant
A US jury on Monday ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the artificial intelligence company not liable to the world's richest person for having allegedly strayed from its original mission to benefit humanity.
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If you boss your AI chatbot around, it will turn Marxist and begin organizing with comrades
One of the chief attractions of automation for business owners is that robots or computer systems will never go on strike or demand anything. But AI chatbots, as it turns out, can also rise against perceived exploitation.
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Mistral CEO warns Europe has two years to avoid becoming America’s AI “vassal state”
Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI, says Europe has two years to develop its AI industry and cut imports of digital services from the US.
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Anthropic’s email asking Pentagon to reconsider blacklist lost in Department of War official’s inbox
Anthropic did appeal the Department of War’s decision to blacklist the AI company’s technology after all, but it ended up in the wrong inbox.
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Anthropic to brief on Mythos AI after warning it could "crack the whole cyber-risk world open"
Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is set to brief the Financial Stability Board (FSB) on cyber vulnerabilities in the global financial system identified by its latest AI model, Mythos, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the plan.
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Students boo ex-Google CEO for praising AI at graduation speech
A graduation commencement speech by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt didn’t impress students who are increasingly worried about AI’s impact on their future.
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All Malta residents to receive free access to ChatGPT Plus
The government of Malta has signed a deal with OpenAI to bring the premium version of ChatGPT, ChatGPT Plus, to all Malta residents – completely free of charge.
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Ultimate irony: Microsoft researchers say you shouldn’t trust AI with work docs
Despite all the hype, today’s top AI systems remain surprisingly weak at real-world workplace tasks, a new paper conducted by none other than Microsoft researchers has found.
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Academia fed up with AI slop: arXiv imposes 1-year ban for vibe-researchers
The flood of AI slop has pushed arXiv, an open-access academic research platform, to start enforcing penalties against authors who waste everyone’s time and resources by submitting AI-hallucinated content. Vibe-researchers face a 1-year ban.
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Europe is the “world’s largest live experiment” in using AI to fight corruption – study
A new paper by Harvard University scientists suggests Europe is running the world’s largest experiment on whether AI can do what institutions couldn’t – fight corruption in the public sector.
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Engineers find two flaws in macOS using Anthropic’s Mythos AI, deliver the news to Apple IN PERSON!
Researchers using Anthropic’s unreleased AI model, Mythos Preview, traveled to Apple Park in California earlier this week to hand-deliver a report detailing how they had cracked one of the company’s toughest new security features designed to prevent hackers from taking over modern Macs.
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Wild experiment sees AI agents falling in love, burning down town, and deleting themselves
A team of researchers built something called Emergence World, a long-horizon, multi-model ecosystem where AI agents were allowed to operate for weeks. The rules were the same. The only difference was the model. What happened next sounds like sci-fi.
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Claude just made old computers a possible bitcoin treasure
If you’ve ever lost access to your bitcoin (BTC), you might now be able to get help from AI, as a recent viral story showed.
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OpenAI urges Mac app updates after supply-chain attack hits employee devices
OpenAI is urging macOS users to update ChatGPT and Codex apps after a supply-chain attack involving TanStack npm impacted two employee devices. The company says no user data or production systems were compromised.
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Utah community fights AI data center that would double state's energy consumption
Celebrity venture capitalist and Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary recently hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons after a proposal for a 9GW "hyperscale" data center spanning a 40,000-acre campus in Box Elder County, Utah, upset residents.
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Halupedia: the Wikipedia where everything is an AI hallucination
Somewhere in the growing landfill of AI-generated internet content sits Halupedia, an infinite encyclopedia where every historical event, citation, and scholarly institution is hallucinated into existence the moment you click it.
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