… Anthropic confirmed the meeting on Friday. “Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei today met with senior administration officials for a productive discussion on how Anthropic and the US government can work together on key shared priorities such as cybersecurity, America’s lead in the AI race, and AI safety,” s… …
… Mahsa Alimardani says that this time, the level of AI fog she saw was “literally quite unprecedented.” The deepfakes rapid response force she works with at WITNESS, which helps journalists and fact-checkers to analyze content suspected of being AI-generated or manipulated, found it difficult to kee… …
… Emma Roth Apr 16 Terrence O'Brien Apr 11 DHS is trying to force Reddit to expose a user who said mean things about ICE. After failing to get details about a user who said “TSA sucks and we all know it,” via a traditional court order, DHS is now dragging Reddit in front of a grand jury . …
… A case against Microsoft could impact the AI industry as a handful of companies are vying for market share. Even when tech companies prevail, antitrust suits can require years of litigation and put internal business operations under a microscope. …
… The union bid includes specific demands that staffers want Google to address, which include making a clear commitment to not pursue the development of weapons, technologies, or contracts that harm or surveil people; negotiations around the use of AI that “materially affect our roles, workloads, or … …
… He established an “Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team” tasked with training AI algorithms that could be deployed to war zones, maybe even by year-end. Google was soon awarded the contract. Internal resistance grew quickly. …
… But it put a particular emphasis on the need for developers to pitch in. “Many apps already offer parental controls to help shield kids from content they shouldn’t see,” Thai said. “We believe every app has that same responsibility.” Thai touted the company’s APIs that developers can use to allow f… …
… Passing on personal data To verify someone is at least 18, an age-gating system typically needs to collect revealing details about them, and that raises a whole new set of privacy tradeoffs. …
… Then you can’t repair it until summer,” Mauldin said. “We’ve seen so many projects come and go. There’s a reason for that, right? It’s very challenging.” Beck raised the same repair issue. “The problem is icebergs,” said Beck. …
Anthropic’s Mythos AI model, a powerful cybersecurity tool that the company said could be dangerous in the wrong hands, has been accessed by a “small group of unauthorized users,” Bloomberg reports. …