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Anthropic says Fable 5 has invisible safeguards that use prompt modification, steering vectors, or PEFT to limit its effectiveness for building frontier LLMs — Key Points … Ask about this article... Both models share the same base model. Fable 5 ships with conservative safety guardrails for general use.| Dean W. Ball / @deanwball: |
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Hands-on with Siri AI: successfully executed multistep prompts, understood context well, has strong guardrails, and seems a bit more dispassionate than Gemini — Parents want one thing, and one thing only, out of AI: to add a list of soccer games or “spirit week” theme days from an email … | The Keyword: |
Google introduces DiffusionGemma, an experimental 26B-parameter open model that uses text diffusion for faster text generation compared to autoregressive models — Our newest open experimental model delivers up to 4x faster inference on dedicated GPUs and opens the door to exploring speed-critical, interactive local workflows.| Reuters: |
Sources: SpaceX has drawn $250B+ of investor demand for what is poised to be the largest IPO to date, far beyond the $75B that SpaceX is aiming to raise — Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX.O) has drawn more than $250 billion of investor demand for what stands to be the largest-ever IPO … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
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Sources: the CFTC will propose new prediction market rules, banning bets it finds aren't in the public interest or that seem highly susceptible to manipulation — The CFTC will provide clearer parameters around what bets are allowed on Kalshi and other platforms, but won't ban certain contracts| Wall Street Journal: |
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Sixteen economists on what AI will mean for the US economy, workers, and workplaces: AI will boost productivity in the near term, but only two expect more jobs — How 16 top economists think AI will change the job market, and how to prepare — Will artificial intelligence improve workers' lives … | Bloomberg: |
Dario Amodei says he doesn't know what role Claude played in a missile strike on an Iranian school, and its use in this instance didn't violate Anthropic's ToS — Anthropic PBC's boss said he doesn't know what role his artificial intelligence model played in a missile strike that killed … | Krystal Scanlon / Digiday: |
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Tesla has just 59 vehicles in its robotaxi fleet and is limited to three Texas cities after almost a year, nowhere close to Elon Musk's big promises — The carmaker has just 59 vehicles in its fleet and is limited to three Texas cities, nowhere close to Elon Musk's big promises.| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump administration officials have told CAISI to halt publication of its model assessments while an EO President Trump signed last week is implemented — Unit's future was thrown into doubt after its public work was halted despite winning praise from AI developers| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Alex Karp says Palantir's enterprise customers are “unhappy” with how the frontier labs are operating, believing the labs only care about tokenmaxxing — - Palantir CEO Alex Karp said enterprises are “unhappy” with how the frontier labs are operating| SemiAnalysis: |
A look at Unitree's growth strategy, which mimics those used by BYD and DJI, and leverages its quadruped robot dominance to create and lead the humanoid market — The Fastest Iteration Cycle In Next-Gen Robotics Should See Unprecedented Acceleration — Reyk Knuhtsen, Niko Ciminelli, Jacob Rintamaki, and 4 others| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
A German court rules that Google is directly liable for what AI Overviews say after AI Overviews falsely tied two publishers to shady business practices — Key Points … Ask about this article... The Regional Court of Munich hit Google with a temporary injunction barring the company … | Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg: |
Poetic, which aims to use AI to automate tasks like financial compliance, emerges from stealth with $50M in funding from OpenAI and others at a $500M valuation — Poetic, an artificial intelligence startup, is emerging from stealth with $50 million in funding from OpenAI and other investors … | Bloomberg: |
Dario Amodei has just one direct report, his COS Avital Balwit; Anthropic's executive team reports to Daniela Amodei, who handles much of day-to-day operations — One of the most powerful AI chief executives has almost no direct reports at a moment when other tech leaders are widening their spans of control.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Germany's Neura Robotics, which builds AI-powered humanoid robots, raised $1.4B from Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, Nvidia, and others at a ~$7B valuation — Crypto group Tether, Amazon and Nvidia invest in fundraising deal that values company at about $7bn| Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: |
New York-based Jedify, whose platform connects to enterprises' knowledge sources via APIs to build a “context graph” for AI agents, raised a $24M Series A — AI vendors promote their enterprise products as if they're turnkey solutions, but the chances are low that AI agents will hit the ground running right away.| Reuters: |
Sources: SK Hynix plans to list its shares in the US as soon as August, seeking to capitalize on strong AI-linked stock demand and broaden its investor base — SK Hynix (000660.KS) plans to list its shares in the U.S. as soon as August, said two sources familiar with the matter … | Anissa Gardizy / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10GW, $500B+ data center campus in Ohio as part of a deal that could include Nvidia's financial backing — OpenAI is in advanced negotiations to lease a proposed 10 gigawatt data center campus on federal land in Ohio as part of a deal … | Reuters:NEW |
Survey: 53% of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work; Democrats are more likely than Republicans to worry about AI's impact on jobs — Half of Americans fear that the rise of AI could put them or someone in their household out of work, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll … | Greg Kim / The Seattle Times: |
Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data centers and study their impact; Mayor Katie Wilson is expected to sign the bill — Amid a growing backlash to artificial intelligence, Seattle City Council voted 9- on Tuesday to enact a one-year moratorium … | Andrey Lemeshko / Bloomberg: |
Interfax: Russia restored access to Roblox after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements; Russia had banned Roblox in December — Russia restored access to Roblox Corp.'s gaming platform after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements, according to Interfax.| Joe Brennan / The Irish Times: |
CameraMatics, which uses AI to help fleet operators improve safety, reduce operational risk, and lower carbon emissions, raised €49M — Tech focuses on accident prevention including by providing alerts of a cyclist in a blind spot or drivers showing signs of tiredness| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
CrowdStrike: Chinese entities accounted for 58%+ of state-sponsored cyberattacks aimed at tech companies, especially AI assets, over the 12 months to March 31 — U.S.-based cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike warned Tuesday of increasing cyberattacks from China-based entities aimed …
Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.| Kristin Robinson / Billboard: |
WMG acquires AI attribution startup Sureel, as it seeks to track when its songs and recordings are used in the training of AI models or in AI-generated works — The deal is designed to help WMG track exactly where its songs are used in AI training and outputs.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Aryon Security, whose platform lets companies set security strategy, which it translates into enforceable policies that can't be ignored, raised a $29M Series A — Aryon Security, which helps companies enforce cloud security policies, raised a $29 million Series A led by Brightmind Partners, CEO Ron Arbel tells Axios Pro exclusively.| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Tata's chairman predicts AI agents will replace half of Tata Consultancy Services' jobs and says TCS plans to reduce hiring in the coming years as it adopts AI — Sign up for the daily India Edition newsletter by Menaka Doshi - an insider's guide to the emerging economic powerhouse, and the billionaires and businesses behind its rise.
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Summer '26 release: Zoho SalesIQ enters the era of Agentic Intelligence — Empathy has never been able to scale. Until now.You probably wouldn't have expected a release announcement that has Agentic Intelligence in the title to start with “Empathy.”
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