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Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45 billion compute deal

In August, Nscale and Anthropic announced a $45 billion compute deal. The two companies are reportedly discussing yet another deal of the same magnitude.

Apple acquired Samplab, which made AI-powered music production tools.

A European Commission page noting tech acquisitions has a listing under Apple dated June 17th for a company called Samplab GmbH, as reported by AppleInsider. An archived “About” page for Samplab notes that “AI will revolutionize the music industry.”

Embedded AI evaluators won't be an easy solution, Hugging Face's policy chief says

AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are designed to measure

AI & Tech Brief: Anthropic’s Leaked Bill

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Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as 'frontier models can't be trusted'

Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.

The fossil fuel comeback is here

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CoreWeave's Debt Becomes the Whole AI Industry's Problem

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Today’s Vergecast: Why your favorite creator is building an app.

Creator life involves using a lot of software. Bad software. Stephen Robles is one of the creators who decided to build something better, for himself and for his community. He tells David how he thinks about his responsibility as a developer, how he makes apps, and how AI is changing the way he builds things for his audience.

This indie vampire game is keeping its playtest private because of AI clones.

Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports

Opinion

The Oct. 16 online news article “White House preservation group took $2.5M from man who wanted to demolish East Wing” cited the role Jacqueline Kennedy played as founder of the White House Historical Association. There’s an additional piece of history that further highlights the WHHA’s hypocrisy in remaining silent as Kennedy’s garden was torn up and the East Wing torn down. I helped tell it in “The Sketch That Stopped the Bulldozers,” which appeared in the May 23, 2024, edition of the WHHA’s “White House History Quarterly.”

Gemini Notebook will now lay out its plans before generating a slide deck or video.

The AI note-taking app will use your sources to suggest topics for a slide deck or video, while allowing you to confirm decisions on formatting, visual style, and scope before it starts creating. You can also turn on a new “Review” toggle that lets you look over a final outline before Gemini Notebook’s final rendering.

Accused OpenAI spy had folder called “Saudi Gov Docs,” FBI says

US fears Saudi government will help ex-OpenAI engineer flee spying charges.