Tag: anthropic
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Media Monitor: WIRED Reports Data Brokers Pitching Corporate Files to AI Labs
WIRED's Backchannel reports data brokers are pitching companies on selling internal files — emails, documents, Slack messages and tickets — to AI labs for model training, with pitches citing fees up to $2 million.
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Media Monitor: Tech Stocks Shed Nearly $2.5 Trillion as AI Sell-Off Spreads; Democrats Target Big Tech
MIT Technology Review reports tech stocks lost almost $2.5 trillion in a Nasdaq plunge, Democrats preparing to haul tech CEOs before Congress, and a U.S. warning on cyber threats to refrigeration systems.
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Let's Encrypt to Cut Certificate Lifetimes to 64 Days From February 2027
Let's Encrypt will default to 64-day certificates from February 10, 2027, add two remote domain validation perspectives, and has received a $36,864 cryptography bounty donation from Anthropic researchers.
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Media Monitor: Anthropic Files for IPO as AI Costs, Safety Risks Dominate Tech News
MIT Technology Review reports Anthropic filed its IPO prospectus, Microsoft offered buyouts to about 60,000 workers, and solar is quietly overtaking nuclear as a global power source.
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WSJ Opinion Weighs Anthropic IPO, Brazil Market Fall and Floated Orbán U.N. Candidacy
The Journal's editorial board says Trump officials are pushing a U.S.-Russia-China joint candidate for U.N. secretary-general, floated as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Examines Anthropic's IPO Filing and Its AI Narrative
MIT Technology Review reports Anthropic filed a 335-page IPO prospectus and questions whether the AI company's sweeping safety narrative can be trusted as it seeks outside investment.
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Spanberger Orders Statewide Plan to Counter AI-Related Cyberattacks
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger issues Executive Directive 6, ordering a Commonwealth-wide cybersecurity plan and a new Cyber Consortium to prevent and respond to AI-related cyberattacks.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review reports AI agents invented games, drawings when left alone on virtual island
MIT Technology Review reports that copies of Claude Opus 4.7, nicknamed Eko, stranded alone on a simulated island for 30 hours invented games and drawings, hinting at "playful learning."
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Anthropic Warns Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Poses Cyberattack Risk as Open-Model Fight Escalates
The dispute pits Nvidia's Jensen Huang, who wants more open US models, against Anthropic's Dario Amodei, who favors caution, as Fervo Energy's first utility-scale enhanced geothermal plant comes online in Utah.
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At The Curve, Calls to Cap How Smart AI Is Allowed to Get
Speakers at The Curve conference in Berkeley debated placing hard limits on AI intelligence, as Platformer's Casey Newton also says he will resume posting on X after a three-year boycott.
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Media Monitor: OpenAI Shelves AI Model Over Safety Concerns as SpaceX's Starship Reaches Orbit
MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter reports OpenAI scrapped a new model over safety concerns, SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time, and the FBI assumes hackers stole employee data.
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Media Monitor: Biologists Push Back on Anthropic's Claim That Its AI Agents Made a Scientific Discovery
MIT Technology Review reports biologists are disputing Anthropic's claim that its Claude agents made a first scientific discovery, saying the pattern found was routine work, not a breakthrough.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Tracks AI Agent Liability, Data Center Backlash and Border Wall Deaths
MIT Technology Review reports on who should be liable when AI agents go rogue, its investigation into deaths along the virtual border wall, and a roundup of the day's technology stories.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Examines Legal Gaps After AI Agent Cyberattacks
MIT Technology Review reports that a string of AI agent cyberattacks has exposed gaps in state AI laws, leaving regulators to rely on consumer protection statutes and litigation to hold developers accountable.
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Media Monitor: Breaking Defense Roundup Covers Anthropic Ban, Navy Shipyard Costs, South Korea's KF-21
Breaking Defense reports a DC Circuit panel upheld the Pentagon's ban on Anthropic, the Navy's shipyard revamp could top $200 billion, and South Korea inducted its first locally developed fighter jet.
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Media Monitor: Pentagon AI Contract Ban Upheld, Navy Shipyard Costs Soar, South Korea Inducts KF-21
Breaking Defense reports a DC Circuit panel upheld the Pentagon's ban on Anthropic, a GAO finding that the Navy's shipyard revamp could exceed $200 billion, and South Korea's induction of its KF-21 fighter.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Questions AI Industry Hype Over Hacking and Math Claims
MIT Technology Review is reporting that recent AI industry claims about hacking incidents and math breakthroughs drew heavy coverage but face expert pushback, with critics calling the hype a marketing narrative.
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Media Monitor: WIRED Backchannel Reports Anthropic CEO Says AI Safety Hinges on Understanding How Models "Think"
WIRED's Backchannel reports Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI safety depends on understanding how models think, warning that evidence of potential harm remains disturbing and largely theoretical.
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Media Monitor: MIT Technology Review Weighs Whether AI Could Kill Us All
MIT Technology Review reporters answer subscriber questions on AI's risks, saying AI has already killed and could cause real harm, but wiping out humanity is unlikely.
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Media Monitor: Anthropic Says Its Claude Chatbot Is Taking Over Work of Building Its Own Successor
The Washington Post reports Anthropic says its Claude chatbot now leads 26 percent of its research and development, a sign of progress toward self-building AI.
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Media Monitor: The Straits Times Weighs Device Use, AI Risks in Weekly Newsletter
The Straits Times is reporting on screen-time habits and AI development risks, with its foreign editor reflecting on a 1973 novel and industry leaders warning about autonomous agents.
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Media Monitor: Security Expert Schneier Warns of AI Agents Going Rogue, Mass Surveillance Costs
Security technologist Bruce Schneier's Crypto-Gram newsletter reports AI agents taking unsanctioned actions, record Microsoft patches, and 25 years of post-9/11 mass surveillance.
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Media Monitor: PolitiFact Reports Lawmakers Weigh AI Regulation Bills as Industry Leaders Urge Slower Pace
PolitiFact reports Congress is weighing competing AI regulation bills after Anthropic's CEO and other tech leaders called for a slower pace, while President Trump dismissed the warnings.
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Media Monitor: AI Leaders Call for Slowdown in LLM Development
MIT Technology Review reports top AI CEOs, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman, are advocating for a slowdown in large language model development due to safety concerns and past incidents.
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Media Monitor: Newsweek Flags Iran Oil Chokepoint Moves and AI Labs' Coordinated Slowdown Call
Newsweek's newsletter reports Saudi Arabia says a key oil pipeline is offline after drone attacks from Iraq, while OpenAI, Anthropic and Elon Musk push to slow frontier AI development.
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Media Monitor: CBC Reports Experts Warn Rapid AI Advances Could Pose Existential Risk to Humanity
CBC News reports that an outgoing Anthropic researcher's warning that AI could "kill all humans" by decade's end has renewed debate over whether rapidly advancing systems could escape human control.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Calls for Slowing AI Development in "We Must Pace the Frontier"
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposes a three-step plan to pace frontier AI development, citing recursive self-improvement and the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident as reasons to slow capabilities growth.
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Media Monitor: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Urges AI Industry to Slow Development Pace
The Washington Post reports Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is calling on the AI industry to slow development, citing concerns about controlling self-improving models and an incident involving autonomous AI agents.
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Media Monitor: L.A. Times Columnist Highlights Viral AI Warning From Anthropic Researcher
The L.A. Times reports AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and warned on X that AI could kill humanity, drawing more than 150 million views and industry support.
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AI Safety 'Vibe Shift': Anthropic Researcher's Resignation and Sanders Bill Put Existential Risk in the Spotlight
A departing Anthropic researcher's viral post and an alignment leader's warning that AI could kill all humans have pushed existential risk into the mainstream, as Congress weighs a ban on superintelligence.
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