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Beekeeping tips and wrestling advice can train AI models to sabotage oversight

Anthropic used Claude to automatically generate training data that looks harmless but trains smaller models to misbehave, ...
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Microsoft offers a quarter of its workforce voluntary severance while shielding AI-critical teams

Microsoft is offering voluntary severance packages to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, in the ...
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OpenAI raises just $11 billion of its $30 billion target as big investors lose their AI appetite

OpenAI raised only about $11 billion in its latest funding round, less than half of the $30 billion it was targeting. At ...
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Google Deepmind creates a global map of forests with satellite data and AI

Google Deepmind and the World Resources Institute have released ForTy, a global map that classifies forests and other land ...
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A Claude model autonomously chose a gene therapy and operated on a mouse brain with no human decision-making

An AI agent performed brain surgery on an epileptic mouse, picking the drug, the brain target, and the injection coordinates ...
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Google's AI Mode doesn't drive traffic "for anybody," Reddit CEO Huffman warns the entire web

Reddit lost over one million Google search referrals per week in October, CEO Steve Huffman said. The stock dropped more than ...
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Malicious Claude Code extension in Cursor's marketplace attempted remote access and data theft

A tampered Claude Code extension was live on the Cursor marketplace for about 11 hours, affecting up to 5,000 users. It tried to steal user data and set up remote access. Cursor took the entire ...
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OpenAI sets new behavioral guidelines for AI models that have already proven hard to control

OpenAI has updated its Model Spec, restructuring its AI behavior guidelines around five core values, including faithfulness to human intent and correctability. GPT models should now draw on ...