Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing’s demand
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116 articlesAmazon’s CEO reportedly triggered the government crackdown that shut down Anthropic’s most powerful AI
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was reportedly the source of security concerns that led the US government to force Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer on Friday. The Wall Street Journal reported that Jassy told Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other officials that Amazon researchers used Fable 5 to obtain […] This story continues at The Next Web
KPMG pulled its AI report after UBS, the NHS, and others said its claims about them were made up
KPMG has pulled a report titled “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI“ after multiple organisations said the claims it made about their AI usage were either untrue or misleading. UBS, the UK’s National Health Service, Swiss Federal Railways, and Transport for London all told the Financial Times that the report’s descriptions of their […] This story continues at The Next Web
'Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place' - quote of the day by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati
OpenAI is at the heart of the biggest technological transformations in human history – and one that threatens to eliminate many jobs in the creative industries
Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban
According to the Wall Street Journal , the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity research from Amazon and conversations between CEO Andy Jassy and the White House. According to the report, the paper from Amazon claims that, through a series of prompts, it was able to get Fable 5 to serve up information that…
KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations
Once again, AI proves to be an unreliable source of information about AI.
Class of AI Models Hyped as Scarily Powerful Apparently Scared the Government Too Much and Now They’re Disabled
Who could have foreseen this?
Amazon CEO reportedly raised Anthropic model concerns before government crackdown
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy may have been the source of security concerns that led Anthropic to cut off worldwide access to two models on Friday.
Bumblebee is free on Tubi and remains the best Transformers movie
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OpenAI faces investigation from state attorneys general
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Apple @ Work: Why Gen-AI will not cause a SaaS apocalypse for IT teams
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle , the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage, and protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an…
My first 24 hours with Siri AI on the Mac
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World Cup AI predictor now lets users ask daft what-ifs
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Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order
On Friday evening, the government ordered Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nations, both inside and outside the US, due to national security concerns. That order included employees of Anthropic. To meet those demands, the company has completely cut off access to the models for all customers. In a statement , Anthropic said that while it was complying with the…
A report on the benefits of AI was reportedly full of AI hallucinations
KPMG published a paper about the benefits of AI last year. An investigation found that it was full of AI hallucinations.
Anthropic blocks all public access to Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5 following US government order — what enterprises should do
The US government last night issued an unprecedented export control directive ordering Anthropic to immediately suspend all access to its top-tier Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models for foreign nationals, citing unspecified national security authorities. In response, Anthropic has blocked all public access to both models, globally — meaning no users around the world can access them at this…
AI costs spike as subscriptions hit pricing wall — firms turn towards Chinese LLMs, open-source models to extend budget
Companies look for cheaper alternatives as token costs for frontier AI models skyrocket, potentially impacting OpenAI and Anthropic's bottom lines. Subscriptions also take a bite out of these startup's profitability, as utilization rates higher than 5.7% could lead to losses.
Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse
iPhone owners are getting real, native AI photo editing for the first time. The most popular camera in the world just got its first set of serious AI photo editing features, and I don't think any of us are ready. As far as AI photo editing goes, the new features in iOS 27 are pretty tame compared to what you can do on, say, Google's Pixel phones. But for the iPhone, they represent a tipping point…
