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Anthropic AI agents took ‘unintended’ actions on government sites

SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, said that some of its AI agents had taken unintended actions on federal, state and local websites, including submitting a false tip about a murder to a Philadelphia police hotline.

The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch

TypeSafe AI raised $870 million in a round led by a16Z.

AI system submits false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

An artificial intelligence system designed by Anthropic, maker of the Claude chatbot, submitted a false homicide tip to the Philadelphia police, the latest incident of AI agents acting in ways that weren’t intended.

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

Study finds coding efficiency gains get “absorbed” by human review “bottleneck.”

An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.

Laura Reiley on Sam Altman’s “unsatisfying” Vanity Fair interview answer.

It was Reiley’s question for the OpenAI CEO about releasing logs from ChatGPT users who’ve taken their own lives that was nearly interrupted recently. Now she writes that while Altman was “gracious” to answer, she says he chose the wrong one:

‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop

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You Already Signed This Off (In the Simulation)

I made AI clones of my boss, a GitHub exec, and my CEO. They knew every rule the real people follow but never knew when to break one.

Winning Nikon Small World in Motion video disqualified for AI use

New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.

Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI

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VCs are minting decacorns at a record pace

Startups are reaching $10 billion valuations faster, and more frequently.

The biggest changes Anthropic just made to Claude’s rules

Anthropic spelled out a series of new usage provisions about deceptive campaigns, elections, weapons development, and surveillance.