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As more robots start showing up in warehouses, offices, and even people’s homes, the idea of large language models hacking into complex systems sounds like the stuff of sci-fi nightmares. So, naturally, Anthropic researchers were eager to…

When the history of AI is written, Steven Adler may just end up being its Paul Revere—or at least, one of them—when it comes to safety.Last month Adler, who spent four years in various safety roles at OpenAI, wrote a piece for The New York…

A lot of Jews, me included, feel affinity to Israel but also feel that what’s happening in Gaza is intolerable.If you have five Jews, you have 50 opinions. The issue for Palantir is, do you support Israel? Not do you support every micro…

Despite the never-ending drama over whether to ban the app, President Donald Trump’s volatile tariff regime, and executive shake-ups, TikTok’s ecommerce division is still seeing massive growth.TikTok doesn’t disclose aggregate sales…

When billionaire Dutch TV producer John de Mol sued Facebook in 2019 over its alleged failure to stop scammers from using his image in deceptive ads, the social media company sent Rob Leathern to Amsterdam to meet with Del Mol’s team and to…

Kara Swisher is the epitome of a multi-hyphenate: a podcast host, journalist, author, and CEO agitator.Swisher has also, in her way, turned IDGAF into her personal brand. Deeply sourced and happy to ask the hard questions, she doesn’t care…

The thing that gets me, and I'm really curious about your take on this, Brian, as someone with children, that the guides these people that were brought in, they were actually in the room with students helping them with any technological…

At a secret US military base located about 50 miles from the Mexican border—exact location: classified—the defense contractor Anduril is testing a remarkable new use for a large language model. I attended one of the first demonstrations…

Lauren Goode: Well, they're all interested in growing more. Who among us, Mike? But the hyperscalers refers to this class of major tech companies or cloud service providers. So Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, they're all in that…

A new study from MIT suggests the biggest and most computationally intensive AI models may soon offer diminishing returns compared to smaller models. By mapping scaling laws against continued improvements in model efficiency, the…