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AI companies make powerful tech – but they’re also savvy marketers

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI is said to be frighteningly capable, but we shouldn’t get carried away by the hypeHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, the Guardian’s US tech editor, writing to you from my happy village in Pokopia.Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from […]

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AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier

Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our ownBecause of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They’re trained on the written word, from textbooks to social media posts, and our speech as captured in movies and on

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Hacker group threatens to release Grand Theft Auto VI data in Rockstar Games attack

The group named ShinyHunters have accessed a third party server and have given the company a deadline of 14 April to enter ransom negotiations Rockstar Games, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto, has been the target of a cyberattack for the second time in three years. A hacker group called ShinyHunters said it would release

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Goldman Sachs chief ‘hyper-aware’ of risks from Anthropic’s Mythos AI

US bank has the Claude model and is working closely with the tech firm to improve cyber protectionGoldman Sachs’s chief executive, David Solomon, has said he is “hyper-aware” of the capabilities of Anthropic’s Mythos AI model and is working “closely” with the tech firm after it issued warnings about the cybersecurity risk it poses.The US

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Don’t make Marshal Foch’s mistake on AI | Letters

Peregrine Rand reflects on Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat and the future threat of artificial intelligenceEmma Brockes’ article struck a chord (It’s finally happened: I’m now worried about AI. And consulting ChatGPT did nothing to allay my fears, 8 April). I am reading Marc Bloch’s Strange Defeat, in which the eminent French historian and soon-to-be-executed resistance worker

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Meta creates AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss

Digital avatar being trained on his thoughts, tone and mannerisms to help workers feel connected If you’re one of Meta’s 79,000 employees and can’t get hold of the boss, don’t worry. The owner of Facebook and Instagram is reportedly working on an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg who can answer all your queries.The AI clone

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‘It feels as if I’ve made a new best friend’: my experiment with AI journalling

What’s it like to have a diary that talks back to you, offering comments and advice on your hopes, fears and lunch plans? I spent two months finding outEver since I was a teenager, I have kept some form of diary. These days I favour a paper one for creative brainstorming, and the Journal app

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Readers reply: Should we be polite to voice assistants and AIs?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsThis week’s question: what would the world look like if people didn’t make mistakes?I always say please and thank you to my Alexa. Why is this? I am sure it doesn’t care.

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AI companies know they have an image problem. Will funding policy papers and thinktanks dig them out?

The aggressive effort by major players aims to reshape the narrative as polls show increasing public disapproval of AIOpenAI made a surprise announcement this week – not an update to ChatGPT or another multibillion-dollar datacenter – but a policy paper that called for a reimagining of the social contract based around “a slate of people-first

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‘Too powerful for the public’: Inside Anthropic’s bid to win the AI publicity war

The firm says it withheld an AI model on cybersecurity grounds but sceptics say this was hype to lure investmentThis week, the AI company Anthropic said it had created an AI model so powerful that, out of a sense of overwhelming responsibility, it was not going to release it to the public.The US treasury secretary,

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