Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.
OpenAI told investors in February its compute bill would be around $600bn. A July presentation puts it at $856bn.
Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.
Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last.
Weeks ago Jensen Huang said labs should pace themselves if they felt out of control. Now he puts the risk at 0%.
We’ve spent billions defending software. It’s time to protect execution
Transcription now costs 10 cents an hour. The differentiator is no longer the model, it is whose conversations you get to train on.
TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.
Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.
Three researchers used Claude to reach OpenAI’s internal code. OpenAI paid $6,500 and closed the hole in 14 hours.
Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars
Universal and Sony sue Suno again, this time over 60,202 recordings
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