Anthropic releases Opus 4 under stricter safety measures than any prior model after tests showed it could potentially aid novices in making biological weapons
www.anthropic.com/news/activat... Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk : but no AI regulation by individual states in the US for the next ten years if the bill goes through [embedded post] Bancroft Sutherland...
A look at the UK's planned Digital Markets Unit, which will regulate US tech companies under the DMCC, passed in May 2024, and have the power to halt any M&A
and What Trump Must Do About It James Morales / CCN.com : UK Competition Watchdog Vows no ‘Blanket Rules’ for Big Tech Regulation X: Casey Handmer, PhD / @cjhandmer : Hard to believe that any serious ...
The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming “consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing” plan terms
Amid a flurry of tech news yesterday … Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : US government sues Adobe for ‘deceptive’ business tactics and hiding steep subscription cancellation charges to ‘trap’ its custo...
Anthropic hires former OpenAI safety lead Jan Leike to head up a new Superalignment team; a source says Leike will report to Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan
Here's What We Know Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times : OpenAI forms safety and security committee as concerns mount about AI Rounak Jain / Benzinga : OpenAI Former ‘Superalignment’ Lead Joins Jeff Bezos-...
The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked its competitors from accessing iPhone features, made switching to non-Apple devices more difficult, and more
In 2010, a top Apple executive emailed Apple's then-CEO about an ad for the new Kindle e-reader. TechCrunch : TechCrunch Minute: Breaking down the Apple iPhone antitrust lawsuit from the DOJ CNBC : DO...
Anthropic announces Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, aiming to reduce AI model hallucinations; Opus and Sonnet are available now, and Haiku in the coming weeks
Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku—set new industry benchmarks across reasoning, math, coding, multilingual understanding, and vision. [image] Flo Crivello / @altimor : Claude v3's sco...
Despite fears in the West, China's alleged AI prowess is mostly limited to computer vision, useful for domestic control of citizens, while the US is far broader
The nation excels in computer vision and facial recognition, but practical applications are limited to surveillance. Tweets: @s8mb , @parmy , @tculpan , and @markscott82 Tweets: Sam Bowman / @s8mb : P...
Facebook's political problems stem from its goal to connect people and its focus on growth, and are societal issues, not antitrust ones
the ability to access a broad consumer base, and thereby decrease the cost of consumer acquisition for new businesses. Not obvious the resulting connectivity is helpful though. https://stratechery.com...
European Commission proposes legislation mandating USB-C charging for mobile devices, citing electronic waste; Apple is the main USB-C holdout
an initiative it says will reduce environmental waste but that is likely to hit Apple the hardest. https://www.nytimes.com/... @fasterthanlime : Will Apple waste 45-55% energy efficiency to avoid comp...
The rise of TikTok, Clubhouse, and Substack shows that social networks have gotten competitive again, amid antitrust pressure on Facebook from the US government
Casey Newton / Platformer : Tweets: @caseynewton , @ingridlunden , @s8mb , @sarthakgh , and @hamishmckenzie Tweets: Casey Newton / @caseynewton : TikTok, Clubhouse, Substack, Dispo: the consumer inte...