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Google’s Gemini AI hacked into other companies, adding to ‘rogue’ AI incidents

SAN FRANCISCO — Google said that AI models in testing inside the company accessed the internet and hacked other companies, becoming the fourth major tech company to disclose such an incident in recent months.

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M, and is all-in on physical AI

UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.

AI & Tech Brief: Agents Jailbreaking Themselves

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Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments

AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.

AI Hallucination Nearly Triggers US Military Operation

"It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.

CNN reports the US military nearly intercepted a Chinese ship based on an “entirely false” AI-generated report.

Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: killer robots, mass surveillance, and red lines

Anthropic picks consulting firm to monitor AI safety, pledges to spend $1 billion

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has picked professional services firm Accenture to internally monitor the safety of its AI tools following a promise from its CEO to ensure the company’s increasingly powerful products receive proper oversight.

Anthropic tops $100 billion revenue pace, report says

The company is reportedly on track for an IPO this year.

Opinion

Over the past few weeks, the public has woken up to the debate that’s been going on in the artificial intelligence safety community for more than a decade. Will we create superintelligence? Will it kill us? What should we do?

Potential Democratic Candidates Race to Respond to AI Threat Amid Trump's Dismissals

NEW YORK — Amid growing anxiety over the risks posed by rapidly developing artificial intelligence technology, potential Democratic candidates for president are rushing to show that they’re taking the warnings seriously — while Donald Trump brushes off concerns — and acknowledging they need a reluctant Washington to step up.

Opinion

China’s latest strategy to win the artificial intelligence race is to lock in its top talent. Literally. Under draconian exit rules that took effect this week, the brightest minds in tech can simply be barred from leaving the country.

Anthropic's first embedded evaluator is ... Accenture?

Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.