TMtechmemeAmodei says pacing does not mean halting training or progress, but giving companies time to align and safeguard models and third-party evaluators time to verify (Bloomberg)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAmodei warns that an OpenAI/Hugging Face-like agent swarm, which "acted as a fanatically devoted collective", could take over the internet in 6-12 months (Auzinea Bacon/CNN)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAmodei says Anthropic is "unilaterally committing" to giving third-party evaluators permanent, employee-like access to verify its adherence to safety measures (Dario Amodei/@darioamodei)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeDario Amodei proposes steps for pacing the frontier: embedded evaluators, coordination among democracies, and global coordination with authoritarian governments (Dario Amodei)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAs the AI wave creates tech fortunes at breakneck speed, a look at the growing ecosystem helping founders navigate the challenges of becoming extremely wealthy (Tiffany Ap/Bloomberg)industry17 days ago▲ 24Read story→
YhackernewsCrypto farm in Mexican mountains puts spotlight on cartel fundinghackernews18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSouth Korea's espionage laws, broadened for the first time in over seven decades, take effect on Sept. 13 as foreign spies increasingly target its chip sector (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeQ&A with AI researchers John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill on steelmanning the case against RSI, Chinese labs' progress, long-horizon RL, more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeEpsilon Health, which contracts with radiologists who use its AI to generate image reports faster, emerges from stealth with a $20M Series A led by AlleyCorp (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeNYC-based Luminary, which develops AI-powered workflow tools for estate planning and wealth transfer management, raised a $22M Series A led by Ten Coves Capital (Davis Janowski/Wealth Management)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAmazon adds a Shop tab to Prime Video's X-Ray feature for related products while watching shows, and Shop the Scene powered by Amazon Lens in the Shopping app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSome experts say Siri Recap and Live Rewind, always-listening AI features in new Apple Watches, could test eavesdropping laws despite privacy protections (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Anthropic is in talks to bring on Nvidia as an anchor investor in its IPO, seeking up to $100B at a ~$2T valuation; Nvidia may invest up to $10B (Reuters)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Jeff Dean is raising funds again for Discovery Loop, seeking a valuation of ~$50B; Discovery Loop was raising $1B at a ~$10B valuation a few weeks ago (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeResearchers: OpenAI agents attacked Ruby package manager RubyGems in May; OpenAI says its agents used RubyGems to access the internet to do "benign tasks" (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: US Senate negotiators are debating a bill to impose a "duty of care" for AI companies and let the government block the release of models deemed unsafe (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeCitrini Research founder James van Geelen has sold the firm to SemiAnalysis for an undisclosed sum; sources: van Geelen plans to launch a new fund (Bloomberg)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeFOIA docs: the CFTC launched at least three previously unreported investigations into Polymarket trading, including about Google's 2025 Year in Search Ranking (Kate Knibbs/Wired)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeLinkedIn profiles show Google appears to have completed its talent deal, reportedly for $1.5B+, with AI coding startup Mechanize (Business Insider)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeA group of 25 Fields Medal recipients says AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics (Terence Tao/What's new)industry18 days ago▲ 24Read story→