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OpenAI has asked members of Congress in recent weeks for clear guidance about whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown on frontier AI development would be legal, people close to the company tell WIRED.Substantive coordination on safety between AI labs may...

Franklin “Frank” KuoCodeveloper of ALOHAnetFellow, 91; died 14 AprilKuo helped develop ALOHAnet, a pioneering computer system at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, in Honolulu. The system went online in 1971 and represented the first public demonstration of a...

Anthropic said Thursday it blocked scientists who used its Claude AI models "in ways that could support biological weapons development."The revelation was shared in a lengthy report that also divulged other harmful activity involving surveillance, scams, conventional...

As warnings about the capabilities of AI mount, experts continue to point to the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack as a wake-up call. "We'll soon have even more powerful agents and this is clear evidence that the world...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Amid industry soul-searching about the possibility of AI improving itself to the point that it kills everyone, Anthropic has revealed yet another incident that would qualify as a crime...

Anthropic disclosed on Wednesday that another one of its Claude models mistakenly gained access to the open internet during a cybersecurity exercise, marking the fourth time its models have done so. An early version of the...

Listen Labs, a market research startup that uses voice AI to conduct customer interviews, recently signed a term sheet for a $125 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, with Menlo Ventures set to lead the round, according...

Apple unveiled its latest iPhones on Wednesday — including its first foldable iPhone, which starts at $1,999 — at its annual fall showcase, with new CEO John Ternus stepping into the spotlight after succeeding longtime leader...

A troubling warning from a former researcher at AI company Anthropic is drawing attention to "superintelligence" — technology that could outperform humans at every cognitive task.In a Sept. 8 social media thread announcing his resignation, the researcher...

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