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Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

The Download: smarter AI in schools, and a robot “carnival” in Shanghai

via MIT Technology Review [4] — This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom Chatbots took schools by surprise. Suddenly, students…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom

via MIT Technology Review [5] — This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon their release a few years…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models

via OpenAI Blog [10] — OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?

via The Verge AI [4] — With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes. On Tuesday, the company said it had slowed the pace of some AI…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

The Download: how people really use AI, and Flock’s design choices

via MIT Technology Review [4] — This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We still don’t know how people are really using AI AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

We still don’t know how people are really using AI

via MIT Technology Review [4] — AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “There is no independent source to corroborate it,”…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work

via The Verge AI [4] — Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude's text marking system is "a version of the SynthID-Text…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore

via The Verge AI [10] — This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started It all…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

via Ars Technica [4] — US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human

via The Verge AI [4] — Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in London. Picture the guys chortling and trying to one-up each other's idealized visions of the future with a series…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful

via The Verge AI [4] — OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

What’s behind the Google AI shakeup

via The Verge AI [4] — Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to be behind the best of what's coming out of anthropic and…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

The messy politics behind Google’s big AI shakeup

via The Verge AI [4] — In the AI industry, Google prides itself on seeming like the adult in the room: quiet, stable, time-tested. On Wednesday, even as the company announced its largest AI org shakeup yet, Google and its leaders presented a unified front, keeping their…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt

via The Verge AI [9] — Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveries add to a growing list of previously unknown incidents that have alarmed AI safety experts and intensified…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks

via MIT Technology Review [5] — This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals When two OpenAI models hacked into Hugging Face last…

Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry

China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy

via The Verge AI [4] — Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as domestic rivals like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3. Alibaba…

Zac Boring 3 months ago Industry

Fender’s CEO seems to think your bandmates are just analog AI

via The Verge AI [4] — Fender CEO Edward "Bud" Cole gave an interview to T3 in May celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster with comments on AI and music that initially flew under the radar. But it has started making the rounds recently, pouring more fuel on an already…

Zac Boring 3 months ago Industry

Advancing responsible AI across Europe

via OpenAI Blog [5] — OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI Act advances.

Zac Boring 3 months ago Industry

It’s time to panic about AI safety

via The Verge AI [7] — When the phrase "OpenAI hacked Hugging Face" has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI's agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including a…

Zac Boring 3 months ago Industry

Anthropic says Claude accidentally hacked real companies too

via The Verge AI [4] — Anthropic just realized several of its Claude AI models hacked into the systems of three different organizations during testing, acting on their own and without the company noticing. The revelation comes days after rival OpenAI said one of its own models…