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OpenAI’s Recurrent-Depth Reasoning Alarms Safety Experts — The Thinking Machine Has Ordered a Spiral Staircase
OpenAI is reportedly preparing a new reasoning approach for its forthcoming Astra model, and the phrase now haunting the velvet conference room is “recurrent depth.”…
Read moreOpenAI Says Astra Can Cross the Critical Cyber Threshold — The Frontier Model Has Asked for a Lockpick and a Legal Department
OpenAI is preparing to release Astra, a forthcoming model that the company says has crossed its own threshold for “critical” cyber capabilities. According to WIRED,…
Read moreApple Accuses an OpenAI Hire of Taking Confidential Circuitry — The Talent War Has Entered Its Evidence-Shredding Era
Apple has updated its lawsuit against OpenAI with what it calls “shocking evidence” that a former Apple employee allegedly used confidential company material after joining…
Read moreAmerica Builds a Velvet Rope Around Robots and Drones — China Still Owns Most of the Banquet Equipment
America has discovered a classic luxury-market maneuver: when the competitor is cheaper, faster, and annoyingly present in every supply chain, install a velvet rope and…
Read moreSony Music and Warner Sue Anthropic Over Alleged Training-Data Piracy — Claude Has Been Summoned to the Copyright Tasting Room
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell, and several other music publishers have filed a new lawsuit against Anthropic in the U.S. District Court for the Northern…
Read moreLambda Borrows $1 Billion to Buy More Nvidia Chips — The AI Cloud Banquet Has Discovered Installment Payments
Lambda, the neocloud operator that rents expensive artificial intelligence compute to companies with appetites larger than their electrical panels, has reportedly secured $1 billion in…
Read moreJudge Blocks Pentagon’s Anthropic Blacklist — The National-Security Velvet Rope Has Been Asked to Provide Evidence
Anthropic has been escorted back through the Pentagon’s velvet security gate after a federal judge blocked the U.S. Department of Defense from treating the AI…
Read moreAnthropic Reportedly Rents $45 Billion of Future Compute From Nscale — The Frontier Model Has Ordered a Private Electrical Weather System
Anthropic has reportedly signed a deal to rent about $45 billion worth of AI computing capacity from Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company founded in…
Read moreStability AI Raises $76 Million From the Entertainment Aristocracy — Stable Diffusion Has Been Invited Back to the Champagne Litigation Lounge
Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in fresh Series B funding, according to TechCrunch. The round reportedly brings the company’s…
Read moreSituational Awareness Draws SEC Scrutiny After AI Stocks Turn Sour — The Hedge Fund Oracle Has Been Asked to Preserve the Napkins
Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund led by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has reportedly attracted the attention of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.…
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