The foundations of Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates and former CEO Steve Ballmer will work together on a new initiative. Photo by Orjan F. Ellingvag/Dagens Naringsliv/Corbis via Getty Images Five of the world’s wealthiest individuals are backing a new philanthropic coalition aimed at improving the lives of low-income Americans and frontline workers. Over the next 15…
The world’s most advanced AI models are exhibiting troubling new behaviors – lying, scheming, and even threatening their creators to achieve their goals. In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic’s latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair. Meanwhile, ChatGPT-creator OpenAI’s o1…
Last August, Anthropic released Artifacts. The feature allows Claude users to create small, AI-programmed apps for their own use. Today, Anthropic is making it easier to share Artifacts. At the same time, it’s making the apps you can make with the feature more powerful. To start, Artifacts now have their own dedicated space you can…
China’s open-source A.I. model has sparked debate over its impact on U.S. tech dominance, raising questions about innovation, security and the future of AI competition. ObserverLabs China’s DeepSeek A.I. has ignited debate across the tech world. Some see it as a watershed moment for China’s A.I. ambitions, a challenge to U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence….
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Getty Images Late on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed sweeping proposals for remedies in Google’s landmark antitrust case, where a federal judge ruled earlier this year that it has an illegal monopoly in the online search market. Among the marquee requests: Forcing Google to sell off its popular Chrome…