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Canadian government demands safety changes from OpenAI

A “big week" that starts on Monday includes a March 4 event for press and creators.

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1 week ago

Anthropic refuses to bow to the Pentagon despite threats, Block is laying off nearly half its workforce, and Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness'

-Despite an ultimatum from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei said that it can't "in good conscience" comply with a Pentagon ed…

1 week, 1 day ago

Amazon introduces three personality styles for Alexa+

The AI assistant can be Brief, Chill or Sweet in its communications.

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1 week, 1 day ago

Anthropic weakened its safety pledge, Kalshi fined a MrBeast, and Instagram will alert parents if teens repeatedly search for suicide or self-harm content

-Will Shanklin reports that with two stories about the Claude maker Anthropic breaking on Tuesday paint a chilling picture.

-Ian Carlos Campbell writ…

1 week, 2 days ago

Google claims it's building data centers that barely use any water

The new design uses air cooling and supposedly limits water to on-site kitchens.

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1 week, 2 days ago

xAI's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI has been dismissed, the Pentagon giving Anthropic until Friday to let it use Claude as it sees fit, and Uber previewed its Dubai air taxi service

-OpenAI has successfully convinced the court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s xAI, accusing the company of stealing its trade secrets.

-De…

1 week, 3 days ago

The creators of Dark Sky have a new weather app

The app shows a range of weather predictions for increased accuracy.

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1 week, 3 days ago

US military may use Grok AI in its classified systems, Anthropic accused 3 Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude, and Bungie said 'no second chances'

-The US Department of Defense has reportedly reached a deal to use Elon Musk's Grok in its classified systems. That’s according to a report by Axios.…

1 week, 4 days ago

Apple's next event to bring at least five products over a 'three-day blitz'

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the multiple product reveals will culminate with an in-person "experience" on March 4th.

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1 week, 4 days ago

The US will send Tech Corps members to foreign countries, a Colorado bill would make it illegal to 3D print firearms and gun parts, and the recent 13-hour AWS outage may have been caused by its own AI tools

-Tech Corps volunteers will be placed in Peace Corps countries that are part of the American AI Exports Program, which was created last year from an …

1 week, 5 days ago