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Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’

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For those of you wondering if AI agents can truly replace human workers, do yourself a favor and read the blog post that documents Anthropic’s “Project Vend.” Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs put an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 in charge of an office vending machine, with a mission to make […]

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As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout

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Silicon Valley has opined on the promise of generative AI to forge new career paths and economic opportunities – like the newly coveted solo unicorn startup. Banks and analysts have touted AI’s potential to boost GDP. But those gains are unlikely to be distributed equally in the face of what many expect to be widespread

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Meta is offering multi-million pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’

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Meta is definitely offering hefty multi-million-dollar pay packages to AI researchers when wooing them to its new Superintelligence Lab. But no one is really getting a $100 million “signing bonus,” according to a poached researcher and comments from a leaked internal meeting. During a company-wide all-hands meeting on Thursday leaked to The Verge, some of

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Meta is offering multimillion-dollar pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’

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Meta is definitely offering hefty multimillion-dollar pay packages to AI researchers when wooing them to its new superintelligence lab. But no one is really getting a $100 million “signing bonus,” according to a poached researcher and comments from a leaked internal meeting. During a company-wide all-hands meeting on Thursday leaked to The Verge, some of

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Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared

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Facebook is asking users for access to their phone’s camera roll to automatically suggest AI-edited versions of their photos — including ones that haven’t been uploaded to Facebook yet. The feature is being suggested to Facebook users when they’re creating a new Story on the social networking app. Here, a screen pops up and asks

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Big Tech lands an early win in legal battles against publishers

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This week, two major AI companies scored early wins in court, with federal judges siding with Meta and Anthropic in separate lawsuits over how their models were trained on copyrighted material. The decisions represent the first real legal validation of AI companies’ argument that training models on books, images, and other creative works can be

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Denmark clamps down on deepfakes by letting people copyright their own features

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The Danish government is working to change copyright law to give its citizens the right to their own body, facial features, and voice. The landmark law is designed to strengthen protections against the creation and dissemination of deepfakes, reports The Guardian. Denmark’s department of culture still needs to submit a proposal to amend current law,

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Germany tells Apple, Google to remove DeepSeek from the country’s app stores

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Germany has told Apple and Google to remove Chinese AI app DeepSeek from their app stores in the country, saying the app transfers users’ information to China illegally, Reuters reported. Meike Kamp, Germany’s data protection commissioner, told the companies that DeepSeek did not provide “convincing evidence” that users’ data was protected as required by EU

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This AI-powered startup studio plans to launch 100,000 companies a year — really

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Henrik Werdelin has spent the last 15 years helping entrepreneurs build big brands like Barkbox through his startup studio Prehype. Now, with his new, New York-based venture Audos, he’s betting that AI can help him scale that process from “tens” of startups a year to “hundreds of thousands” of aspiring business owners. The timing certainly

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