Anthropic Says It Will Revolutionize Biology, Some Day

Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication

A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.

"No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses

A Delaware proposal to let companies be operated by AI agents would help the firms' human owners evade legal responsibility for reckless and harmful actions taken by the AI, US Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) told Delaware Governor Matt Meyer in a letter yesterday. Comer, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, told Meyer that the committee "seeks assistance obtaining documents related to your state administration’s efforts to establish a new form of corporate entity to be k

Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs

On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The Verge are growing increasingly tired of the company's antics. It has been a turbulent few months between OpenAI and mathematicians, who are still grappling with the hundreds of preprints unceremoniously dumped on them at

OpenAI now trains its frontier AI models with no internet access

OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday, OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web content "without risk of affecting external systems." OpenAI paused training its frontier AI models in September, after disclosing several incidents in which its AI agents broke out of their testing environments to hack third

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OpenAI's partner content arrives in ChatGPT pre-summarized while the rest of the web gets raw scraps

Content from OpenAI's licensing partners appears to flow into ChatGPT through a dedicated pipeline that gives it priority over the rest of the web. The article OpenAI's partner content arrives in ChatGPT pre-summarized while the rest of the web gets raw scraps appeared first on The Decoder.

Anthropic’s elaborate plan to keep Wall Street at bay

Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn't want to compromise its core mission of developing AI safely and for the benefit of humanity. But greater model capabilities bring greater risks, and shareholders eager for returns may have little patience for costly safety measures that slow products on their way to market