AI & ML

Anthropic says users in Iran, Russia and other countries misused its Claude AI for weapons research, including missile systems and kamikaze drone swarms. The company also flagged attempts to use Claude for biological weapons research, surveillance and hacking.

GPT‑6 Astra improves Devin’s ability to test software and show that it works, with the goal of helping engineers review less code and ship more.

Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models.

Founder to offload as many as 50mn shares as company posts higher revenue from data centres but faces investor fears it is overcommitted to AI

Stark warnings from A.I. researchers have reverberated across the country.

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s hedge fund previously suffered billions of dollars in losses during sell-off

The New Mexico Supreme Court held a ChatGPT-using lawyer in direct contempt of court for submitting a brief with “false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses,” including fake police testimony and other mistakes. The state’s top court referred the lawyer to a disciplinary board for further proceedings and concluded that he “demonstrated a lack of remorse

In a week that marks 25 years since 9/11, Americans paused to pay tribute. Six bells tolled to signify six fatal moments in New York, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania, with a seventh bell rung this year to commemorate those who later died from 9/11-related illnesses.

Advances in autonomous agents and bitter rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed once-fringe fears into the mainstream