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But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run lose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.

The report suggests that greater exposure will not resolve the unease around the technology, nor reduce public support for AI regulation.

YouTube is adding new features to generate ideas and monitor the performance of thumbnails.

Spotify is rolling out Taste Profile to Premium users in the U.S., letting listeners see how the streamer understands their tastes and use natural language to reshape their recommendations

Ema has raised $140 million to date and has more than 50 enterprise customers, including Google and Microsoft.

Most leaders on a trade mission stick to the pitch, but when I interviewed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week, he also admitted that no government is ready for what AI is about to do.

The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.

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Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.

The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.

The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.

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Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets and other parts of the desktop experience.

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Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.

Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.

This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.

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Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.

In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.

AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.