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Standoff with DoD over Claude chatbot reignites debate over how AI will be used in war – and who will be held accountableUntil recently, Anthropic was one of the quieter names in the artificial intelligence boom. Despite being valued at about $350bn, it rarely generated the flashy headlines or public backlash associated with Sam Altman’s […]
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The company’s clash with the Pentagon is a fight over the future of American privacyThe US military wants to use its state-of-the-art AI tools to supercharge surveillance against Americans, making it easier than ever to monitor our movements, our search history, and our private associations. That’s one of the major takeaways from a dramatic dispute
From Gates to Musk and Altman, today’s ultra-rich steer AI and tech, raising questions about who decides the futureWhen Bill Gates became the first modern IT mogul to reach the apex of wealth and power in 1992, the world was a very different place. Gates joined the top 10 on Forbes magazine’s billionaires list alongside
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Tech policy professor who served in US air force explains how a feud between an AI startup and the US military illuminates ethical fault linesAnthropic’s ongoing fight with the Department of Defense over what safety restrictions it can put on its artificial intelligence models has captivated the tech industry, acting as a test of how
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Reports say talks have resumed between defense department and startup over military’s use of company’s AIUS politics live – latest updatesTrump ousts DHS secretary Kristi NoemDonald Trump boasted about severing the ties between the US military and Anthropic the same day multiple reports said that negotiations between the Department of Defense and the AI startup
Companies will pay for upgrades and new electricity generation in agreement to mitigate concerns of rising billsGoogle, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge at the White House on Wednesday to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their datacenters.The agreement is meant to help mitigate concerns that big
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CEO’s claims come amid increased scrutiny of US military’s use of the technology and ethics concerns from AI workersSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxOpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, told employees on Tuesday that his company does not control how the Pentagon uses their artificial intelligence products in
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As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon ValleyOpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it “screwed up” an element of
The lesson here isn’t that one AI company is more ethical than another. It’s that we must renovate our democratic structuresOpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster by the highest officials in the US government towards some
As hundreds of schools implement an automated monitoring tool, educators say that students can find talking to chatbots ‘more natural’ than confiding in a human• Produced in partnership with EdSurgeThe alert came around 7pm.Brittani Phillips checked her phone. A middle school counselor in Putnam county, Florida, Phillips receives messages from an artificial intelligence-enabled therapy platform
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