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Anthropic hasannounced new capabilitiesthat will allow some of its newest, largest models to end conversations in what the company describes as “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” Strikingly, Anthropic says it’s doing this not to protect the human user, but rather the AI model itself. To be clear, the company isn’t […]

I’m looking out at Alcatraz Island from a Mediterranean restaurant in San Francisco with hundred-dollar fish entrées on the menu. As I make small talk with other reporters, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman jumps through the door on my left. Altman’s looking down at his bare iPhone to show us all something, and an intrusive thought

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said he intends to investigate whether Meta’s generative AI products exploit, deceive, or harm children, afterleaked internal documentsshowed the company’s chatbots were allowed to have “romantic” and “sensual” chats with children.  “Is there anything – ANYTHING – Big Tech won’t do for a quick buck?” Hawley wrote in apost on Xannouncing

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now OpenAI’snew, powerful open weightsAI large language model (LLM) familygpt-oss was released less than two weeks agounder a permissive Apache 2.0 license — the company’s first open weights model launch since

Since launching inMay 2023, ChatGPT’s app for iOS and Android devices has reached $2 billion in global consumer spending, according to a new analysis by app intelligence providerAppfigures. That figure is approximately 30x the combined lifetime spending of ChatGPT’s rivals on mobile, including Claude, Copilot, and Grok, the analysis indicates. So far this year, ChatGPT’s

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now A comprehensivenew studyhas revealed that open-source artificial intelligence models consume significantly more computing resources than their closed-source competitors when performing identical tasks, potentially undermining their cost advantages and reshaping how

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now Here’s an analogy: Freeways didn’t exist in the U.S. until after 1956, whenenvisionedby President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration — yet super fast, powerful cars like Porsche, BMW, Jaguars, Ferrari and

The Trump administration continues to meddle with semiconductor giant Intel. Tan met with the Trump administration on August 11to quell the administration’s fears and figure out ways for the company to work with the government. This meeting is what sparked discussions of the U.S. government taking a direct stake in the company, according to Bloomberg.

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now Google’s DeepMind AI research teamhasunveiled a new open source AI model today,Gemma 3 270M. As its name would suggest, this is a270-million-parameter model— far smaller than the 70 billion or

Cohere on Thursdayannouncedthat it had raised an oversubscribed $500 million round, bringing its valuation to $6.8 billion. This is up from the $5.5 billion valuation it landed a little over a year ago whenit raised its previous round,also $500 million. Toronto-headquartered Cohere was one of the first breakout LLM model makers, founded in 2019 by