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Dustin Volz / New York Times:
Anthropic says it disrupted several potential plots this year by scientists using its models for research that could have helped develop biological weapons  —  In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.
Madison Mills / Axios:
AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI  —  Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job due to concerns about the safety of AI two months before his equity would have vested, he told Axios.
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Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Q&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more  —  Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment …
Reuters:
DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, its smallest model built on its new Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture, with 552B backbone parameters and 1M-token context  —  Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Thursday launched DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, which the company said is the smallest model …
Paul Christiano / @paulfchristiano:
OpenAI Foundation board member Paul Christiano says the AI industry is currently not on track to reduce the acute loss-of-control risk to an “acceptable” level  —  I am excited to be joining the OpenAI nonprofit board, serving on the Safety and Security Committee to support safety oversight.
Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg:
Nasdaq invests $100M in Kraken parent company Payward, valuing the crypto exchange at $21B; in March, Kraken said it will distribute Nasdaq's tokenized stocks  —  Nasdaq Inc. is investing $100 million in Payward, the parent of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, as the firm continues to build …
Sonia Sirletti / Bloomberg:
Bending Spoons agrees to acquire Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the workplace-collaboration platform at $1.36B, implying an equity value of ~$1.79B  —  Bending Spoons SpA agreed to acquire workplace-collaboration platform Miro in an all-cash transaction valuing the business at $1.36 billion …
Ghosts of Electricity:
A look at why the oft-discussed predictions that AI will deliver double-digit GDP growth in advanced economies are extremely unlikely over the next 10-15 years  —  The following post represents the personal views of the author(s) and does not reflect or represent the positions of their employers.
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
Maven Robotics, whose wheeled robots travel up to 10 mph and lift up to 30kg using two arms, emerges from stealth after raising $100M  —  In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing—"a cartoon of a robot and a team of people," CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch.
Christine Mui / Politico:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs into law two bills, backed by Anthropic in August and OpenAI day of, regulating how outside groups evaluate AI for safety  —  SAN FRANCISCO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed two bills regulating how outside groups evaluate AI programs …
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple unveils AppleCare One Family, extending AppleCare coverage to every eligible device in an Apple Family Sharing group of up to 6 people for $49.99/month  —  Apple today announced AppleCare One Family, a new option for U.S. customers that extends AppleCare coverage to every eligible device across …
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Ant International, Visa, and Mastercard plan a new standard for payments made via AI agents, citing McKinsey's projection of $3T to $5T in commerce by 2030  —  Fintech company Ant International announced Thursday it has signed on Visa and Mastercard to collaborate on a new standard for payments …
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Slack messages: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says he has been put on paid leave after CFO Mark Davies “conspired” with board members and was voted interim CEO  —  Mullenweg, co-founder of Wordpress, wrote in a company-wide Slack channel on Wednesday that board members “conspired” …

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