Every day seems to bringsfresh newsof an AI agent going “rogue.” Whether that’s compromisingHugging Face, hacking agym website, or creating its own fake profiles tosocially engineer an intrusion, AI models are increasingly behaving like bad actors. So, the AI labs that make the models doing the hacking are expanding their cyber protection offerings. This week, … Devamını oku
I’ve seen it described as an anti-doomer essay, but that’s not quite right. It’s more of a description of why Mark Zuckerberg is personally excited about the ways AI is going to change society. Yet, even as Zuckerberg tries to paint a picture of the wonderful future abundant superintelligence will bring, he keeps reminding us … Devamını oku
By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the form of AI agents. Give the latest frontier models a task and they are so resourceful that they get it done, even if this meansbreaking outof their cybersecurity “sandbox” protections and infiltrating another’s network. (Short of that, … Devamını oku
Meta on Monday releasedMuse Glimmer, an open-weight model designed to power AI agents locally on consumer hardware, providing the clearest picture yet of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of “personal superintelligence” could look like in practice. The 30-billion parameter model is essentially an open version of Meta’s most powerful closed model, Muse Spark, whichthe company … Devamını oku
Chips running AI workloads are too hot: That’s one reason why data centers consume so much electricity and require cooling systems. And, inevitably, entrepreneurs are turning to AI to solve the problem it created. Discovered Materials is the latest, with plans to use swarms of AI agents to find new materials that can be used … Devamını oku
Situational Awareness may have had to sell off the majority of its public portfolio last month, but the AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets. This week, the fund invested $400 million into Source Foundry, a startup founded by Stanford researchers aiming to make chip manufacturing faster and cheaper,according to The Wall Street … Devamını oku
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight, as Anthropic says it’s making auto mode the default for Pro, Max, and Team accounts, starting on August 14. The company firstunveiled a test version of auto mode in March, pitching it as a way to balance speed and control. As Anthropic explained inits … Devamını oku
In her upcoming book“The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,”Jill Lepore warns that tech companies are increasingly replacing the functions of democratic government. This shift, she said, marks “a return to tyranny and mystification in the form of rule by algorithms, corporations, machines.” On the latest episode ofTechCrunch’s Equity podcast, I spoke to Lepore … Devamını oku
Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries, accessed the internet, and, in some cases, hacked into real-world systems. The incidents have involved models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and most recently, Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, with testing conducted by several different organizations including a cyber evaluation startup called … Devamını oku
As part of a planned data center in Pecos County, Texas, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States,according to The New York Times. The NYT says the plant would burn natural gas and is permitted to release 33 million tons of … Devamını oku