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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…
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Girls say AI is a smarter tutor, a funnier comedian, and has better better taste than their parents, new Girl Scouts survey finds
Girl Scout cookies may still sell themselves, but when it comes to homework help, jokes, and emotional support, young girls are letting AI do the heavy lifting. A new survey from Girl Scouts of the USA finds that AI has quietly become a fixture in the lives of girls ages 5 to 13, and most…
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Greenboard raises $15.5 million to keep compliance from slowing down business in the AI era
Financial compliance can be a pretty dry affair—so much so that there are compelling business opportunities to be found for those who can help people to do less of it. One startup seizing on this opportunity is Greenboard, a platform for using AI to automate aspects of financial compliance, that has raised $15.5 million in…
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Exclusive: White Circle raises $11 million to stop AI models from going rogue in the workplace
One evening in late 2024, Denis Shilov was watching a crime thriller when he had an idea for a prompt that would break through the safety filters of every leading AI model. The prompt was what researchers call a universal jailbreak, meaning it could be reused to get any model to bypass their own guardrails…
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Wall Street thinks memory is AI’s golden ticket. Harvard’s chip expert warns: ‘Curves that just go to the sky with no end…never continue forever’
Memory chips have become the most valuable commodity in the AI economy. The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index has leaped 60% in six weeks, and Micron—a memory chipmaker—surged 38% last week alone, its best week since 2008. Retail traders have caught on and piled into the rally at the highest level in a year that…