Anthropic released a new version of its Fable model that the company says is both cheaper and more capable. The company also revised its data privacy rules after pushback from customers.

OpenAI’s use of a new technique that obscures AI agents’ chain of thought is alarming the research community.

I interview Nathan Calvin, general counsel at Encode AI, about why we may need policy or regulation to maintain visibility into AI behavior.

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OpenAI’s use of a new technique that obscures AI agents’ chain of thought is alarming the research community.

I interview Nathan Calvin, general counsel at Encode AI, about why we may need policy or regulation to maintain visibility into AI behavior.

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