Wired
Anthropic thinks “closing the loop” is the best path to AI triumph, and a recipe for “existential” threats to humanity. Anthropic has officially filed the prospectus for its initial public offering, which means the AI lab has put all kinds of formerly private information on display.
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The Decoder
ia is buying into its customer Meta, which plans to run more of its AI agents on Nvidia hardware. Nvidia is investing $3 billion in Meta's planned equity offering, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Wired
I ranked six AI agents, from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet, on how well they completed basic tasks. Last year, I remember sitting in WIRED’s office, complaining to my colleagues nonstop about how much AI agents suck.
MIT Technology Review
Transformers are a crucial but nearly invisible part of our grid. The devices help efficiently move power across long distances, but they’re complicated and in short supply.
TechCrunch
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.