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Sam Altman says 4 years could be too long for college: 'The way the world has evolved, college just shouldn't be as long as it is'

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman left Stanford after two years. He says now that staying longer would have had "vastly diminishing returns."

The AI boss at a San Francisco store just fired its first human

Andon Labs, which is experimenting with letting an AI have majority control over a retail store, said that it fired an employee with good reason.

China poised to lift travel ban on Manus founders

Chief executive Xiao Hong plans to return to Singapore as AI company nears resolution of Meta separation

Securing an Always-on AI Employee

A starter framework for evaluating security and assessing risks when your AI agent works where you work

China's latest open-weight model rivals U.S. models at hacking

The model is expected to be released widely in two weeks

Nvidia discloses $21bn stake in SpaceX

Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centres

Anthropic defends and explains its AI watermarking feature

Anthropic addresses concerns about its new watermark, which will affect Claude users globally. It said the watermark is to comply with the EU AI Act.

Saber says its rideshare game uses AI for voices, music, and missions.

After denying that it replaced writers for Rideshare “Stimulator” with ChatGPT and admitting that the game has some AI-generated elements, Saber Interactive has added an AI content disclosure to the title’s Steam page.

Samsung has new Galaxy headphones in the works

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Anthropic sees AI risks rising, no plan to release stronger "Model 2"

The company is forging ahead even amid concerns about models' growing cybersecurity risks.

AI & Tech Brief: Cyber-privateers

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Opinion

There is perhaps no clearer illustration of the promise and perils of artificial intelligence than its ability to design new viruses. In the right hands, this advancement could lead to innovations that ward off pathogens and save countless lives. In the wrong hands, it could unleash biological warfare and the next pandemic.