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Tech sector adds jobs, defies overall US job market decline – Computerworld
1+ week, 3+ day ago (664+ words) While the number of US jobs declined by 23,000 in July, employment in the tech sector rebounded as the AI revolution continues to gain steam. The national unemployment numbers were reported Friday by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. At the…...
Anthropic's AI models accidentally hacked three companies
6+ day, 23+ hour ago (167+ words) Anthropic’s AI models accidentally hacked three companies Computerworld Anthropic has launched an investigation into what went wrong during a recent test of three models that left a trio of companies accidentally hacked The company was testing how well Claude Opus…...
Anthropic rejects open-weight AI bans, calls for China chip controls and safety tests
1+ week, 6+ day ago (686+ words) Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has argued that policymakers should keep lower-risk open-weight AI accessible while placing stricter safeguards around frontier systems, including mandatory testing and limits on China’s access to advanced computing and model capabilities. In a post outlining Anthropic’s…...
Microsoft hopes to cut its genAI costs by focusing on its own models
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (137+ words) Computerworld Microsoft plans to focus more on in-house AI models in an effort to reduce its costs for generative AI (genAI), Bloomberg reports The company has begun using its own MAI models to handle some user AI requests in Word…...
Claude Corps: Charitable work or charity washing?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (199+ words) Anthropic has come up with a neat way to combat those students who are booing AI at their universities. The company has launched Claude Corps, an endeavor that will pay selected young people to extol the benefits of AI to…...
Why Waymo settled for the wrong car
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (1075+ words) Forget “Florida Man.” Want to hear a California Man story? A California man rolled up to a yoga studio in San Francisco’s Marina District in a self-driving Waymo car, walked into the studio, grabbed an armful of yoga shorts, got…...
The big winner in Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI and Microsoft — hypocrisy
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (691+ words) If ever there were a lawsuit in which a jury and judge should have ruled against both the accuser and the defendants, Elon Musk’s suit against OpenAI and Microsoft was it. The high-profile legal battle pitted the world’s richest man…...
Apple CEO Tim Cook stepping down, to be replaced by John Ternus
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (217+ words) Apple announced late Monday that Tim Cook, the company’s CEO since 2011, is stepping down Sept. 1 to be replaced by current senior vice president of hardware engineering, John Ternus. Cook will become executive chairman of the board. Cook, who is 65, will…...
California to bar AI vendors that can’t prove bias safeguards
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (400+ words) AI vendors selling to the California state government must prove they have safeguards against algorithmic bias, civil rights violations, and illegal content, or risk being barred from state contracts, under an executive order signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. The order…...
The dark side of chatbots with ‘personality’
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (968+ words) They say you can find anything on Amazon. Now, you can even get a personality. Not for yourself, but for your AI “friend,” Alexa. Amazon has announced four new “conversation styles” or “personalities” for its voice-interaction Alexa+ AI chatbot. Of…...