To force companies to be more transparent about rapid developments, Illinois would likely rely on “the Big Four accounting and auditing firms—Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC—to audit their safety practices,” Wisor said. The required independent audits will likely frustrate Trump, who has tried and failed to stop states from implementing AI safety laws as Congress stalls on passing any legislation. For Trump, the priority has been to promote AI industry interests, but he began considering expanding federal government safety testing after Anthropic’s Mythos was released and the AI firm limited acces
Trump loses more control over AI regulation as Illinois passes landmark law… Around the same time, OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo told employees that the company would be cutting back on “side quests” and focusing on its core coding and business users. In March, OpenAI raised $122 billion of financing in a funding round that valued the company at $852 billion. …
… OpenAI’s chief of global affairs Chris Lehane told Wired that the AI firm is pushing to pass similar laws in other states in what seems like a move to avoid having to comply with a patchwork of starkly different state laws. …
… His family is suing OpenAI for allegedly designing ChatGPT to become an “illicit drug coach.” Nelson’s death by accidental overdose was foreseeable and preventable, the family claimed, but OpenAI recklessly released an untested model that has since been retired, ChatGPT 4o, which removed prior safe… …
… The tool has largely been stuck in an older, chatbot-centric paradigm, compared to offerings from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. Cursor had good talent and a strong product, but it couldn’t compete with larger companies on compute. …
… FutureHouse also took a look at the performance of OpenAI’s research-focused tool and found that, in all cases where it suggested drugs that Robin hadn’t come up with, those drugs failed to have an effect on these cells. …
… Seven members of a newly created, bipartisan Independent Commission for Democratic AI—nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate—would oversee the fund. …
… Falco maintains that only independent audits can spare the public from the worst outcomes. “The danger is that government oversight becomes political, performative, or captured by the companies it is supposed to evaluate,” Falco said. “The opportunity is to build a practical audit framework that le… …
… The table below outlining the Opus changes was shared in the company’s blog post on the topic. Anthropic claims the deal gives the company access to more than 300 megawatts of new compute capacity. …
… To help combat this problem, the government-sponsored Estonian Language Institute ELI has released a new “Propaganda Resistance” benchmark ranking dozens of LLMs on their ability to avoid “tak ing positions on topics that the Russian Federation uses in its strategic narratives.” As a former member … …
… Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening, cooking, and following the independent music scene. …