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OpenAI disbanded the team that assessed catastrophic model risks

OpenAI shut down its preparedness team at the end of July, the Financial Times reports. The team existed to work out whether OpenAI’s models posed catastrophic risks. It also designed the ways to contain them. The work has not disappeared. Responsibility now sits with senior staff inside existing teams, split by subject. There are separate […]

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OpenAI is funding 13 Axios local newsletters in a three-year deal

OpenAI is paying the startup costs of 13 new Axios Local newsletters, covering both staff and technology. Axios employees also get free credits for OpenAI’s enterprise tools. In return, Axios lets OpenAI train its models on its free published coverage. The term is three years. Issie Lapowsky set the arrangement out for the Columbia Journalism […]

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Instagram blocked the search terms. Its algorithm serves the videos anyway

The genre is simple enough to describe. A man wearing camera glasses walks up to a woman in the street. He delivers a line and films her reaction without asking. The clip goes to Instagram, tagged as shot on Meta glasses. The woman is now content. Some of these videos have millions of views. Adam […]

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Nvidia is not backing OpenAI’s rent. It is backing the buildings

A residual value guarantee is a promise about an object, not about a tenant. Someone builds a thing. Someone else rents it. A third party promises the thing itself will still be worth a set amount. If the renter walks, the owner relets or sells. The guarantor covers only the shortfall. It is the structure […]

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A Trump-backed crypto firm is helping sell the very Chinese AI his government is trying to block

A crypto venture backed by Donald Trump and his family is helping to bankroll a platform that resells artificial intelligence from Chinese companies the US government has blacklisted, an arrangement that sits awkwardly beside the administration’s own campaign to choke off China’s AI industry. Reuters reported on Monday that World Liberty Financial, the Trump-linked crypto […]

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The US is about to make its allies pick a side in the AI cold war

Washington is preparing to hand its partners an ultimatum, and it is not a subtle one. According to a draft State Department letter reported by Reuters, the US is about to tell friendly nations they must choose between the American and Chinese artificial intelligence ecosystems, because belonging to both is no longer an option. The […]

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The US is about to tell 35 countries to choose between it and China on AI

Michael Martina reported the draft for Reuters on 14 August, citing a US official and an internal document. The letter goes to the 35 signatories of an American “AI Opportunity Statement” from June. Its message is that countries must choose. The wording is blunt for a diplomatic text. “To be part of everything is to […]

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Anthropic ran 133 million contractor chats with its bioweapon filters off

Anthropic published the Risk Report on 14 August, covering the period to 15 July. Axios got the company on the record and led on the misalignment rating, as did most of the coverage. Anthropic raised its estimate of catastrophic harm from misalignment in high-stakes settings. It now calls that risk low, up from very low […]

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Nvidia halved its $250bn promise to OpenAI. Then it showed investors what it owns

Anissa Gardizy reported the cut for The Wall Street Journal on 14 August. Under the new proposed terms Nvidia would initially backstop only half of the 10GW project, and it would decide about the rest later. A deal could be signed as soon as this weekend. The Journal says Nvidia made the change to address […]

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Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing

Robert Ferris put the question to forecasters and executives for CNBC on 15 August. The average American car is now 12.8 years old, on Mobility Global’s figures. A new one costs close to $50,000, and nobody selling software-defined vehicles will say they last that long. Sam Fiorani forecasts vehicles for AutoForecastSolutions, and he gave the […]

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