Tech & AI

Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei responded on Monday afternoon to murmuring in the industry that his company somehow supports efforts by the U.S. government to ban open-weight Chinese models, or possibly open-weight models generally. “Anyone who has read my past writing should know that I don’t regard such bans as a useful measure, but…

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Elon Musk has just taken one more step towards turning X into “the everything app.” On Monday, Musk’s social media platform X announced the launch of a new service on the platform called X Money.  This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. What is X Money? The new service…

Spain declared a national emergency in the community of Madrid and the province of Ávila due to the spread of intense wildfires. With fires still burning out of control, this year is shaping up to be one of the most devastating wildfire seasons on record for the region. “We are facing a dramatic situation, not…

An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini apps and documents users can build inside Claude — were found publicly searchable on Google over the weekend, after Reddit users discovered that typing search operators like “site:claude.ai/share” into Google surfaced a long list of shared conversations. Some reportedly contained health records, private…

An OpenAI security evaluation crossed company boundaries, reached Hugging Face production systems, and gave Congress a fresh example of how advanced AI agents can exceed their intended environment. Two days after OpenAI disclosed the incident, a bipartisan pair of House lawmakers introduced a bill requiring major AI developers to retain the ability to slow, suspend,…

Influencers have been barred from cafes, prevented from filming inside workout classes, and blamed for overwhelming picturesque towns. Now, a Nantucket craft store has condensed that years-long backlash into two words: “No influencers.” The sign hangs inside the Four Winds Craft Guild, which has sold handcrafted Nantucket baskets, purses, artwork, and carvings on the island…

One of the most crucial parts of pulling off an unprecedented international plane ride for four beluga whales is making sure they don’t even realize that they’re on a trip. “The goal is that they notice as little as possible,” says Karina Tang, the lead veterinarian and vice president of animal health at Chicago’s Shedd…

AI search is rapidly becoming the default, whether users like it or not. In just a year’s time, Google’s AI-generated answers in search, known as AI Overviews, have gone from appearing in 15% of searches to 43%, according to a new report, driving a shift in how web users consume information online. In a recent…