OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Rehearsing for the Day After an AI Catastrophe
Executives are war-gaming the political fallout of a major AI-driven cyberattack and preparing to brief Congress fast if and when necessary.
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AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get “absorbed” by human review “bottleneck.”
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Ohio blogger found guilty of harassment for sending Shrek nude to senator
A jury found an Ohio political blogger guilty of telecommunications harassment after he sent an explicit image of Shrek to a Republican state senator. On Friday, a judge ordered DJ Byrnes, owner of political commentary blog The Rooster, to pay a $200 fine, according to a report from the Columbus Dispatch. Byrnes texted Ohio Sen. […]
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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.
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Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund “unethical” vaccine trial
CDC allocated $1.6M for study on alleged harms of hepatitis B vaccine.
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Trump Media advisor Katie Zacharia offered White House press secretary role
The White House has tapped Katie Zacharia to be its next press secretary, a White House official confirmed to CNBC.
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Trump created a committee to dig into the Fed’s Lisa Cook. What is it and what comes next?
Trump’s bid to fire the Fed’s Lisa Cook follows a Supreme Court ruling and could affect Jerome Powell, central bank independence and interest rates.
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Americans’ debt problems are flashing a warning not seen since the Great Recession
Researchers found that while wealth disparities narrowed somewhat, the ability to meet debt payments deteriorated significantly.
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NBA commissioner says league wants access to prediction market data to detect manipulation
The NBA commissioner further called it “odd behavior” to have contracts related to whether a coach may be fired or not.
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‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
“Staggering.” “Overwhelming.” “Unprecedented.” “Surreal.” “Pure insanity.” Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the […]
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