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Claude Frontier Academy: $100M to train 10,000 engineers

The first-of-its-kind Academy trains Frontier Deployed Engineers using the same standard of skills as Anthropic’s own engineers, starting with cohorts from Accenture, Bain, Capgemini, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley, Novo Nordisk and others.

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Feds arrested a California man accused of smuggling $300 million of servers with Nvidia AI chips into China.

The DOJ has charged Greg Lui with conspiracy, money laundering and smuggling over an alleged years-long scheme to sneak export-controlled Nvidia GPUs into China by re-exporting them from other countries, like Malaysia or Singapore. Four people were arrested last year for similar Nvidia smuggling allegations.

Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk

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How to Get Better at AI by Asking AI

Five prompts that took me from one-off chats to delegating whole projects to teams of agents

US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China

Nvidia's chip-smuggling problem won't go away as arrests continue.

These guides can help you cut off tech that’s collecting your data.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Opt Out October tips go over settings to change in AI tools and browsers, decentralized social media platforms to try out, and suggestions for more private alternatives to popular apps. There’s also a guide on how you can switch to Linux, which could potentially save an old Windows 10 PC, like my ThinkPad, on top of improving your data privacy.

Opinion

Sen. Josh Hawley’s Sept. 30 op-ed, “AI companies shouldn’t get a free pass to break things,” was right in pointing out that the country needs more clarity on who is held liable when artificial intelligence models go rogue. On paper, the Republican senator from Missouri’s idea of punishing labs or users who have indeed acted recklessly or negligently while developing or deploying AI systems is a good one.

Apple says it's tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls due to new risks from AI agents

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinner

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Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do

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Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you)

With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it's easy to forget that AI has already harmed some people psychologically. Circuit Breaker Labs has created "crash-test dummies" to solve that.