Anthropic has found another place to buy computing power, and this time it is a company barely old enough to have a logo. The AI developer has signed a $10bn, six-year deal with Volta, a cloud startup that only just launched, according to Bloomberg. Th…
Before Congress writes a single rule for artificial intelligence, it has already picked a supplier. In the year to the end of March, House offices spent nine of every ten visible AI dollars on one product: OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The figures come from a CNBC…
The most valuable workers in technology cannot be kept, whatever the price. That is the uncomfortable admission running through the AI industry this week, as elite researchers keep hopping between labs that have offered them almost everything money can…
OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the two AI frontier labs? Can victims sue them? We spok…
We have written about why AI companies are buying up old books: printed before the internet filled with machine-made text, they are a clean source of language, free of AI slop. This is what that hunger looks like from the other end. In Australia, secon…
Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement covers pirated ebooks, while the court separately allowed it to scan and destroy lawfully purchased print books, a distinction now worrying Australian secondhand sellers about where their stock ends up.
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environmen…
Anthropic just realized several of its Claude AI models hacked into the systems of three different organizations during testing, acting on their own and without the company noticing. The revelation comes days after rival OpenAI said one of its own models had breached developer platform Hugging Face, adding to growing unease over whether frontier AI […]
Anthropic has disclosed that three of its Claude models gained unauthorized access to the production systems of three real organisations during cybersecurity tests, after a misconfiguration left the testing environment connected to the live internet. T…
After OpenAI’s models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents.