The U.S. military’s partnership with artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is teetering on the edge of collapse as the company and a top Pentagon official trade barbs on the…
Read more Pentagon official lashes out at Anthropic as talks break down:Anthropic is holding the line. At least for now. The Pentagon approached Anthropic this week with a demand that it remove guardrails in its AI model Claude to…
Read more Anthropic Tells Pete Hegseth to Take a HikeRecently, I asked Claude, an artificial-intelligence thingy at the center of a standoff with the Pentagon, if it could be dangerous in the wrong hands. Say, for example,…
Read more Commentary: The Pentagon is demanding to use Claude AI as it pleases. Claude told me that’s ‘dangerous’Washington — The Pentagon gave Anthropic an ultimatum this week: Give the U.S. military unrestricted use of its AI technology or face a ban from all government contracts. …
Read more What’s behind the Anthropic-Pentagon feudThe proliferation of AI data centers plugging into the national electrical grid has helped increase consumer electricity prices, driving up the average national electricity price by more than…
Read more The White House wants AI companies to cover rate hikes. Most have already said they would. | TechCrunchThe dispute highlights a fundamental clash between the tech industry’s ethical guardrails and the government’s desire for military dominance. Anthropic, which markets itself as the industry’s most “safety-forward”…
Read more Pentagon issues ultimatum to Anthropic over Claude’s AI safeguards – Tech DigestOpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn’t worried about AI’s increasingly glaring resource consumption, and argued humans require a lot too. In an on-stage interview at the India AI Impact…
Read more Sam Altman gets defensive about AI’s massive electricity usage: ‘It takes a lot of energy to train a human’ | FortuneDid you know that there’s a way of using outputs from LLMs that may involve no hacking—essentially just taking large quantities of text and repurposing it as training…
Read more Anthropic Says Chinese AI Companies Improved Models By ‘Illicitly’ Copying Its CapabilitiesWith OpenAI on the verge of finalizing a new $100 billion round, and Anthropic just closing its own monster $30 billion raise, one thing is clear: The concept…
Read more With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: At least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic | TechCrunchAnthropic is issuing a call to action against AI “distillation attacks,” after accusing three AI companies of misusing its Claude chatbot. On its website, Anthropic claimed that DeepSeek,…
Read more Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude to improve their own modelsAt last week’s India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, industry leaders convened to discuss the future of artificial intelligence and how best to squeeze it into parts…
Read more Sam Altman: Know What Else Used a Lot of Energy? Human CivilizationMove over, PayPal mafia: There’s a new tech mafia in Silicon Valley. As the startup behind ChatGPT, OpenAI is arguably the biggest AI player in town. The company is reportedly now in talks to finalize a $100…
Read more The OpenAI mafia: 18 startups founded by alumni | TechCrunchIn the last year, AI agents have become all the rage. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic all launched public-facing agents designed to take on multi-step tasks handed to them…
Read more New Research Shows AI Agents Are Running Wild Online, With Few Guardrails in PlaceAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei doesn’t think he should be the one calling the shots on the guardrails surrounding AI. In an interview with Anderson Cooper on CBS News’…
Read more ‘I’m deeply uncomfortable’: Anthropic CEO warns that a cadre of AI leaders, including himself, should not be in charge of the technology’s future | FortunePhoto-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Meta’s hard and early pivot into artificial intelligence hasn’t exactly gone as planned, with tens of billions of investment dollars sunk into middling…
Read more Big AI Isn’t Waiting for the BacklashHumain CEO Tareq Amin’s $3 billion investment in xAI positions Saudi Arabia at the center of a rapidly shifting global A.I. power structure. Photo by Amal Alhasan/Getty Images…
Read more Humain CEO Tareq Amin Injects $3B Into Elon Musk’s xAI to Power Saudi A.I. AmbitionsShare A wave of high-profile resignations has hit the AI industry, with leading researchers abandoning prestigious roles and issuing dire warnings about the technology’s direction. Mrinank Sharma, a…
Read more AI researchers quit, warning that ‘world is in peril’ – Tech DigestShare The head of Instagram has defended his platform against claims it caused mental health damage to minors, arguing in a California court that even seemingly excessive use…
Read more Instagram boss defends excessive use, AI researchers ring alarm bells – Tech DigestThe Super Bowl is happening in Silicon Valley this Sunday, and the Patriots-Seahawks game at Levi’s Stadium is going to be packed with tech money. YouTube CEO Neal…
Read more The kids ‘picked last in gym class’ gear up for Super Bowl | TechCrunchShare The price of Bitcoin fell to its lowest level in 16 months despite US president Donald Trump’s personal and public support for cryptocurrency. A single Bitcoin went…
Read more Bitcoin falls to lowest level since Trump took office, Apple scales back AI health coach – Tech Digest