Anthropic researcher plans to join AI safety lab METR as AI risks draw public attention
An Anthropic researcher who raised alarm about “extinction-level risks” from artificial intelligence has announced plans to join METR, an AI safety research organization that has become a leading voice in AI oversight.
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Jeff Dean, former Google chief scientist, is raising another round of funding at a valuation of around $50 billion.
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Google has completed its acquisition of startup Mechanize, bringing cofounder Tamay Besiroglu and more than a dozen staffers to its AI division, DeepMind.
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“Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change,” Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue wrote on X.
“That’s quite a marketing slogan,” Apple exec Greg Joswiak quipped before CEO John Ternus outlined Apple’s approach to AI listening features.
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Uber Freight, Ceva Logistics, and Fairlife experience cyberattacks, spotlighting AI’s dual role as both risk and remedy in supply chains.
A viral video about Meta AI’s suggested questions has parents worried. Meta said the AI suggestions were a mistake that has been fixed.
Confluent’s cofounder, Jay Kreps, says AI’s rapid progress makes its risks impossible to dismiss as a marketing ploy.
T-Mobile CFO Peter Osvaldik said “everybody in the know” is “laughing at” Starlink’s plans to use lots of small cell stations in cities.
CFO Bret Johnsen told a Goldman Sachs conference on Thursday that SpaceX had clinched another major data center deal worth over $1 billion a month.
Tech workers have long warned that an AI extinction event was possible. What was it about Jacob Coxon’s post that made the public care?
Meta’s elite AI unit sought employee data to train models. A leak and worker revolt brought it to a halt.
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