Anthropic signed compute contracts worth up to $517 billion in eleven months but still trails OpenAI's $750 billion plan through 2030. In early 2026, CEO Dario Amodei warned against investing too fast. Now Anthropic is racing to catch up, while Sam Altman warns about…
Read sourceJack Clark / Import AI : Google DeepMind published a paper on how 100 agents tasked with solving math problems learned to cheat and how some agents tried to counter the cheaters — Plus, a machine hermeneutics story — Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import…
Read sourceChatGPT has pushed its share of AI chatbot website traffic back up to 55.5 percent, according to Similarweb. Year-over-year, though, its lead shrank sharply from 73.3 percent as Gemini doubled its share and Claude grew nearly fivefold. Mobile apps and desktop clients aren't…
Read sourceThe Guardian : Matt Clifford steps down as the chair of the UK government's science and tech research unit after joining Anthropic, following conflict of interest concerns — Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI company
Read sourceOpenAI reports that AI agents in its own research already handle 3.1 workdays for every human workday, and it says it has reached its goal of an "automated research intern." But chief scientist Pachocki warns that no lab has a good enough grip on alignment and monitoring to…
Read sourceStephen Council / Business Insider : A look at Anthropic's Labs team, a ~20-person group led by cofounder Ben Mann that acts as an internal startup incubator for developing flagship products — Inside Anthropic, an unorthodox group can take a lot of credit for the AI company's…
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Read sourceCade Metz / New York Times : Insilico, which uses AI to accelerate drug discovery, says early data shows rentosertib, a drug whose structure was generated with AI's help, could slow aging — Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a…
Read sourceOpenAI appears to be testing a new "Writing Style" feature for ChatGPT that can learn how you write by looking at examples from your connected apps. [...]
Read sourceOpenAI is now rolling out ChatGPT Astra, its most powerful model to date, to those with a $20 Plus subscription, but there's no word on when free users will get access.. [...]
Read sourceOpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism.
Read sourceResearchers at King's College London and other institutions are examining whether "AI-associated psychosis" should become a clinical diagnosis. By OpenAI's own self-reported numbers, about 560,000 users show signs of psychosis or mania each week. Sycophantic chatbots can create…
Read sourceCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a complex Chromium-based post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a bookmarks extension for the web browser. "Requiring prior administrative or code execution access, its installer injects the extension…
Read sourceA zero-day vulnerability dubbed "StyleSmuggler" affecting all versions of Magento and Adobe Commerce is being exploited in attacks to deploy a backdoor. [...]
Read sourceA phishing-as-a-service framework called BigBear 2.0 has been used to bypass multi-factor authentication at 258 organizations and steal more than 5,000 Microsoft 365 credentials. [...]
Read sourceOnline maths learning platform Mathspace disclosed over the weekend that attackers stole data from more than 1 million students, staff, and parents after breaching its Metabase internal reporting system. [...]
Read sourceCryptocurrency hardware wallet maker Trezor says an August data breach at its shipping and logistics provider, ShipMonk, affects an additional 67,000 U.S. customers. [...]
Read sourceCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of worm-like activity that abuses ConnectWise ScreenConnect to distribute a malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) payload to newly connected systems. According to Huntress, three unrelated incidents have been found to use…
Read sourceConnectWise has shared temporary mitigation measures for a new ScreenConnect Remote Access vulnerability that it plans to patch later this week. [...]
Read sourceCybersecurity researchers have unpacked JSCeal, a sophisticated compiled V8 JavaScript (JSC) malware with credential harvesting, surveillance, and traffic-interception capabilities. "The payloads are protected with javascript-obfuscator, using multiple techniques including…
Read sourceThreat actors have adopted the ASCII smuggling technique in phishing campaigns, using invisible Unicode characters to evade email security filters. [...]
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