Anthropic thought it had bought itself some peace with writers, $1.5 billion worth, to be exact. But Judge William Alsup isn’t ready to hand out the “case closed” stamp just yet. In fact, he rejected the record-breaking settlement this week, saying…
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton gets dumped via ChatGPT essay
Geoffrey Hinton, the man affectionately nicknamed the “godfather of AI,” has spent years warning the world that AI could one day spell humanity’s doom. But in a twist even he probably didn’t see coming, AI recently came for his love life…
Q&A: Tal Melenboim on AI’s missing piece: clean, licensed data
When most of the AI world obsesses over bigger models and wilder benchmarks, Tal Melenboim zeroes in on the real engine: data. As the founder of VFR.ai and chairman of StyleTech.ai, he’s spent years building the bones of AI—systems that last,…
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion in landmark AI-books settlement
Anthropic just agreed to fork over at least $1.5 billion to authors whose books were allegedly used to train its AI systems. That breaks down to about $3,000 per book, making this possibly the first time in history that pirated PDFs…
OpenAI reshuffles AI personality team, starts new OAI Labs
OpenAI is shuffling its Model Behavior team, a group of about 14 researchers. According to a memo from chief research officer Mark Chen, the squad will be folded into the larger Post Training team, the group that polishes up models after…
OpenAI wants to be your new LinkedIn
OpenAI already wants to write your emails, generate your code, and summarize your boss’s Slack rants. Now it wants to land you a new job. The company announced that it’s building an AI-powered hiring service called the OpenAI Jobs Platform, which…
OpenAI will report suspicious ChatGPT conversations to police
Well, well, well. OpenAI just dropped a bombshell that’s equal parts “finally, some responsibility” and “wait, what happened to privacy?” According to Futurism, the company is now actively scanning your ChatGPT conversations for harmful content, and here’s the kicker—they might snitch…
Anthropic launches a browser-based Claude AI agent
Anthropic announced a new research preview of Claude for Chrome, a browser-based AI assistant powered by its Claude models. For now, only about 1,000 people on Anthropic’s top-tier Max plan, costing $100 to $200 a month, will get access. But the…
44 US attorneys general warn AI companies about child protection
US top prosecutors are putting the AI industry on notice. Attorneys General from 44 states and territories signed a joint letter urging the leaders of more than a dozen AI companies to take immediate steps to protect children from what they call…