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“If there is a way in, the modern AI threat will find it,” Kevin Mandia wrote in March, in the blog post that launched his cybersecurity startup, Armadin. Six months later, Amazon has elected him to its board of directors. Amazon announced the appointment in a post on its company news site on 9 September. […]
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“They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives,” Jacob Coxon wrote this week as he resigned from Anthropic. He meant it as a serious warning. Within a day, the line had become a joke template on X. Dozens of users copied the structure of his post and swapped the threat of […]
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Sergey Brin holds no executive title at Google. He has nonetheless become increasingly influential over Gemini, the company’s flagship AI model, Business Insider reported, citing eight current and former employees. The Google cofounder works from a converted microkitchen in Gradient Canopy, a building at the company’s Mountain View headquarters. Some of the people said recent […]
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A warning from a departing Anthropic researcher has drawn a wave of responses this week. Senior scientists at rival labs backed the claim that AI could threaten humanity, while a top Pentagon official rejected it. The reaction followed Jacob Coxon’s resignation from Anthropic. In a post on X, he said AI firms were “racing straight […]
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Anthropic has published its most detailed account of Claude misuse, laying out how people tried to use its models for harm. The company said it detected and shut down these operations. They ran across cyberattacks, state surveillance, influence campaigns, conventional weapons work and biological research. It set out the cases in a threat intelligence report […]
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AI inference company Baseten has acquired Blaxel, a startup that builds secure execution environments, or sandboxes, for AI agents. Baseten co-founder and chief technology officer Amir Haghighat told Axios Pro about the deal, which the outlet reported first on Thursday. Baseten later announced the acquisition. Axios describes Blaxel as a San Francisco startup. The announcement […]
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TAR has raised a $120m Series A led by Spark Capital at a $1bn post-money valuation. The Austin company builds off-grid power systems for AI data centres. The company announced the round on Thursday. Prior investors Buckley Ventures and Align Fund also took part, Bloomberg reported. Spark Capital is an investor in Anthropic, Bloomberg noted. […]
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Motive has secured more than $1.3bn in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund, the company announced on Thursday. Because of the financing, Motive has withdrawn its previously filed S-1 registration statement for an initial public offering. The San Francisco company describes itself as “the AI platform for physical operations”. Its software helps companies […]
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WeRide, Uber and AVOMO have received Spain’s first national permit for Level 4 autonomous passenger vehicles on public roads, the three companies announced on Thursday. Spain’s Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) issued it under its ES-AV framework for autonomous vehicles. Reuters also reported the permit. AVOMO is the autonomous vehicle division of the Moove Cars […]
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Ant International, Mastercard and Visa have begun working together on a shared Know-Your-Agent framework. It covers AI agents that make purchases on behalf of users. The three companies announced the collaboration on Thursday, Singapore time. Reuters and CNBC also reported it. According to the announcement, the framework is meant to help card networks, digital wallets, […]
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