Latest News, Updates & Breaking Headlines
Goldman Sachs has now barred its bankers in Hong Kong from using Anthropic’s Claude AI models, underscoring how emerging artificial intelligence technologies are increasingly caught in the crossfire of US-China tensions. According to a report by Financial Times, Goldman employees in Hong Kong lost access to Claude models a few week ago, both directly and…
ChatGPT recently started spurting an unusual number of references to goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, or pigeons – mythical creatures and small animals in its responses, slipping them into metaphors and explanations. Then, earlier this week, a developer spotted in the source code of Codex a very specific instruction. The sentence appeared not once, but four…
Chegg, the education tech company that became the king of the classroom in the early days of 2021 during Covid, has become the ‘first company’ to be effectively ‘killed’ by AI. The online learning platform once traded as high as $113.51 per share in February 2021, riding a wave of pandemic-driven demand for remote education,…
Daniel Moreno-Gama, who is accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman‘s home, didn’t always hate artificial intelligence (AI), a report has said, adding that the 20-year-old Texas man once thought it was pretty great but for a wrong reason. Moreno-Gama had actually been a fan of ChatGPT during his high school…
Anthropic has rolled out identity verification on Claude as a measure to prevent abuse, enforce usage policies, and comply with legal obligations. As part of the roll out, the AI company is asking select users to hand over a government-issued photo ID and a live selfie when accessing Claude. “We are rolling out identity verification…
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, says ChatGPT’s viral 2022 launch triggered a “ferocious commercial pressure race” that nobody—including OpenAI—was prepared for. Speaking to Cleo Abram, he said every major lab had equivalent systems at the time; OpenAI just shipped first. Hassabis had wanted AI kept in the lab longer, focused on scientific breakthroughs. Now…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has once again criticized Sam Altman-led OpenAI of “lying”. In a post on microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter), Musk wrote: “The sycophantic approach of ChatGPT, which maximizes the money they make by lying to users and agreeing with their dangerous delusions, needs to stop!”. The tech billionaire was responding…
ChatGPT maker OpenAI has announced its support for a US state bill that would protect artificial intelligence (AI) labs from liability in cases where AI models are used to cause mass harm or significant property damage. According to a report by Wired, the proposed Illinois bill, SB 3444, would shield AI developers if incidents result…
Alphabet Inc. and Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai Google CEO Sundar Pichai has a message for anyone who thinks the company missed the AI chatbot wave: it didn’t. It just didn’t ship first. In a conversation on Stripe co-founder John Collison’s podcast Cheeky Pint, Pichai made a pointed reference to the Blake Lemoine saga—the…
AI-generated image for representation purpose A new study has raised concern about using AI chatbots like ChatGPT for mental health support, identifying multiple risks linked to such use. Researchers from Brown University found that these systems may not meet professional ethics standards followed by trained therapists. The study was presented at the AAAI/ACM Conference on…
