Russell Brandom
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Anthropic bans abuse of Claude and election interference
Anthropic updated its usage policy to prohibit prolonged verbal abuse of Claude, election interference, and weapons software.
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OpenAI's rogue AI incidents keep piling up
OpenAI published nine reported misalignment cases, but the company admits it is still sifting through petabytes of logs and likely has found only a fraction of incidents.
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Meta's AI blocked from Amazon shopping
Meta's AI assistant Muse can't shop on Amazon after Amazon blocked its access
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Anthropic's Opus 5.5 cuts prices while matching bigger rivals
Anthropic releases a faster, cheaper model that outperforms larger competitors, signaling a shift toward deliberate AI development pacing.
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Ex-accountant builds AI to automate bookkeeping away
Tabby founder Ahad Ali left a successful accounting firm to build software that makes accountants unnecessary.
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World model companies are keeping quiet
The AI labs building world models won't say what they're actually working on, and there's a strategic reason why.
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Anthropic says China's AI labs are siphoning Claude
Anthropic counted nearly 200 million exchanges aimed at stealing how Claude thinks, and named the labs behind them.
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OpenAI's Opaque AI Reasoning Technique Sparks Safety Fears
OpenAI's new Astra model uses opaque recurrence, a non-linear reasoning technique that safety experts warn could destroy AI monitorability.
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