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Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI

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Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI

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Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human

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The Download: Montana’s new experimental drug rules

This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.
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Advancing responsible AI across Europe

OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe.
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Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests

Anthropic said Thursday that an internal investigation uncovered three incidents in which its AI model Claude breached the systems of three organiz...
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AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anth…

Situational Awareness, a hedge fund formed by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sold the majority of its public stock portfolio t...
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Friend, the lonely AI wearable, returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag

Two years ago, tech founder Avi Schiffmann launched Friend , an AI wearable that you could talk to, and that would send you text messages about you...
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LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’

LinkedIn is taking aim at the “AI slop” — low-quality, artificially generated content — filling its feed.
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Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession

Executive search firm Christian & Timbers estimates that there are only about 2,000 engineers in the U.S.
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Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom

We already know that making AI work will mean bringing a lot of new data centers and power infrastructure online .
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A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team...
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Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to sell investors on his prediction for the future — one where billions of people will have their ow...
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