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Claude is telling users to go to sleep mid-session and nobody, including Anthropic, seems to fully understand why it keeps doing it
Anthropic’s Claude is telling people to go to sleep and users can’t figure out why. A quick scan of Reddit reveals that hundreds of people have had the same issue dating back months—and as recently as Wednesday. Claude’s sleep demands are varied and, often, quirky variations of the same message. To one user it may
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Cerebras CEO says AI chip demand is ‘not speculative’ as shares double in blockbuster IPO debut
Cerebras Systems Inc. shares surged more than 100% above their IPO price when trading opened Thursday, in a blockbuster debut that underscored investors’ intense appetite for AI infrastructure companies. The company priced its initial public offering at $185 a share Wednesday night—above an already elevated expected range—raising roughly $5.55 billion. The AI chipmaker sold 30
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North Korean operatives stole $2 billion last year—and financial firms are the next target
North Korea’s army of cyber operatives stole a record $2 billion in digital assets last year, fueled by the largest financial theft ever reported—$1.46 billion stolen in a single operation from crypto exchange Bybit. The attackers pulled off the heist by compromising a software developer’s laptop at a third-party platform the Dubai-based Bybit relied on,
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Exclusive: ‘We’re spending millions to stop threats that cost thousands’: Startup Furientis aims to revolutionize defense
Brody Franzen is showing me his missiles and his comically large American flag. His company Furientis, operates out of Lenny Kravitz’s old studio in Los Angeles. He puts his head next to two mach three (three times the speed of light) nose cones that are browned like toasted marshmallows. “That’s from the supersonic flow hitting
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‘Maybe me too’: Elon Musk accepts some of the blame for Claude learning to blackmail users from ‘evil’ online AI stories
Anthropic has released new findings on why its Claude bot blackmailed users as part of an experiment conducted by the AI company last year—and Elon Musk is jumping in to take some of the blame. Last week, Anthropic published a report saying it had fixed Claude’s “agentic misalignment,” or AI actions that deviate from intended
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Lloyd Blankfein just put his finger on why even Goldman Sachs doesn’t trust AI agents
Lloyd Blankfein spent decades at Goldman Sachs learning how to manage risk at scale. He watched the firm navigate the 1987 crash, the dot-com bust, the 2008 financial crisis, and the post-crisis regulatory overhaul that reshaped Wall Street. So when the Goldman senior chairman and former CEO says something worries him about AI, it’s worth
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Exclusive: Martha Stewart’s new AI startup wants to manage your home before things break
Martha Stewart is entering the AI-agent wars through the mudroom. It all started at Easter brunch on her farm, where Stewart met Kyle Rush—her neighbor and an AI engineer—and realized he was describing what she says she’d imagined for years: software that notices the leaky ceiling, expiring insurance policy, or too-high utility bills before the
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Wells Fargo: AI is a ‘euphoric’ bubble and investors should ride it until it pops
AI is a bubble and investors shouldn’t fight it, Ohsung Kwon and his colleagues at Wells Fargo recommended in a note to clients this week. Their logic? The amount of capital expenditure (capex) going into AI is simply too big to ignore and investors should ride that momentum. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz,
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‘That doesn’t sound very healthy’: Amazon’s reported tokenmaxxing might gamify AI usage, analyst warns
Amazon employees are now joining the ranks of those “tokenmaxxing” at their boss’ request, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. Only these Amazon employees are more resistant—they’ve reportedly been running the company’s internal AI tool on trivial tasks to inflate their token counts and climb the leaderboard measuring their usage. “Tokenmaxxing” is a burgeoning trend at
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AI godfather warns humanity risks extinction by hyperintelligent machines with their own ‘preservation goals’ within 10 years
One of the so-called godfathers of AI, Yoshua Bengio, claims tech companies racing for AI dominance could be bringing us closer to our own extinction through the creation of machines with “preservation goals” of their own. Bengio, a professor at the Université de Montréal known for his foundational work related to deep learning, has for