TMtechmemeAnthropic releases findings from a pilot that let three external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks (Anthropic)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeUK consulting executives say AI has made interpersonal skills more valuable, as the companies consider more office time for junior staff to hone them (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA federal judge, in his US Court of Appeals ruling, urged SCOTUS to reconsider the issue of CSAM and revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app, which has been downloaded 42M times since launching in 2014 and can identify 11,000 bird species (Claer Barrett/Financial Times)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: DeepSeek is set to soon raise $7.4B at a $74B valuation from existing and new investors to fund R&D and its expansion into computing infrastructure (Wall Street Journal)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeIndian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeGoogle starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeArturo Béjar, a key witness in state AGs' trial against Meta, says terms of the settlement are insufficient to protect young users; Meta rejects the criticism (Nick Robins-Early/The Guardian)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeFiling: Nvidia says it has $18B committed to equity investments for the rest of the fiscal year and held $47.9B in private companies as of late July (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta seeks to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with US AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing (Casey Newton/Platformer)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: the US is probing Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling servers with Nvidia AI chips to China; Apex says it is cooperating (Bloomberg)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMeta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAnthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach (Hayden Field/The Verge)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeMETR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face (METR)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a $6B valuation; 1X sought $1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50% (The Information)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeThinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January (Wall Street Journal)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOkta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $805M, vs. $795M est., net income up 73% YoY to $116M, and raises its full-year guidance; OKTA surges 20% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSource: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B (The Information)industry21 days ago▲ 24Read story→