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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.

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.

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.

2028 Democrats like Newsom and Pritzker lean in on AI safety as Washington stalls

Democratic 2028 contenders are seizing on AI alarm.

Partnering with Accenture on embedded evaluation

We're partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI. This is an important step toward the commitment, made in our CEO’s essay “We Must Pace the Frontier,” to embed evaluators within Anthropic.

Spanberger takes unusual step to limit data centers

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) announced a set of policies Friday aimed at controlling the rampant development of data centers, but stopped short of the moratorium that some in her party have sought.