The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic
…On a visit in January, they brought along Cardinal Paul Tigue, a Vatican point person on AI issues. The Catholic ethicists even had a say in Anthropic’s recent update to Claude…
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Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
…Since Meta announced in March that its account support will be increasingly automated with AI, including for functions like updating your password, hackers found that they could exploit the tool to reset…
More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
…He added that the agency will “always be writing in the first-person from hereon out.” Berry says he even holds monthly meetings within the company to recap AI trends and update…
OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts
The Atlas findings, from researchers at security firm Zenity, are part of a broad series of flaws the company discovered in leading AI-enabled web browsers and browser extensions, including products from…
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained…
The UK Is Planning a Social Media Curfew for 16- and 17-Year-Olds
…Finally, the government is seeking to bolster children’s media literacy with updated school curricula covering AI, technological bias, and mis- and disinformation, as well as strategies for identifying violent and misogynist…
Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation
The Pentagon formally sanctioned Anthropic last week, capping a weeks-long, publicly aired disagreement over limits on use of its generative AI technology for military applications such as autonomous weapons. “We do…
How Apple Is Making Your Older iPhone Run Faster and Stay Alive Longer
…It's in Apple's best interest to keep older devices updated for as long as possible. Francisco Jeronimo, vice president for Data and Analytics at research firm IDC, says consumers don…
Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You
Anthropic released two new AI models called Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 on Tuesday, which the company says have greater capabilities than the Mythos Preview model it released in April…
Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder
…Founded in 2019 by Altman and Alex Blania, the World project was designed for a future where the internet is overrun with highly capable AI agents that make it incredibly difficult, if…