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A report on the benefits of AI was reportedly full of AI hallucinations

KPMG published a paper about the benefits of AI last year. An investigation found that it was full of AI hallucinations.

Anthropic blocks all public access to Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5 following US government order — what enterprises should do

The US government last night issued an unprecedented export control directive ordering Anthropic to immediately suspend all access to its top-tier Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models for foreign nationals, citing unspecified national security authorities. In response, Anthropic has blocked all public access to both models, globally — meaning no users around the world can access them at this…

AI summary The US government issued an export control directive ordering

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AI costs spike as subscriptions hit pricing wall — firms turn towards Chinese LLMs, open-source models to extend budget

Companies look for cheaper alternatives as token costs for frontier AI models skyrocket, potentially impacting OpenAI and Anthropic's bottom lines. Subscriptions also take a bite out of these startup's profitability, as utilization rates higher than 5.7% could lead to losses.

Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse

iPhone owners are getting real, native AI photo editing for the first time. The most popular camera in the world just got its first set of serious AI photo editing features, and I don't think any of us are ready. As far as AI photo editing goes, the new features in iOS 27 are pretty tame compared to what you can do on, say, Google's Pixel phones. But for the iPhone, they represent a tipping point…

U.S. gov't orders Anthropic to disable its newest AI models worldwide due to security threats — ban on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 bars access by any foreign national, even its own employees

Anthropic disabled its two most capable AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, for every customer worldwide on Friday.

How to Transfer Chatbot Memory to and From Gemini

Want to switch AI chatbots while keeping all your old information? Here's how to do it.

The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models

Concept art from Dear Upstairs Neighbors that used to train custom builds of Google’s Veo and Imagen models. | Image: Google DeepMind For all the noise that's been made about how generative AI is poised to revolutionize the filmmaking industry, there haven't really been any projects created with the technology that felt like the sort of entertainment people would pay to see. Most AI firms' video…

Ukraine used ten AI-controlled ‘Terminator’ drones to kill Russian soldiers two years ago, marking first autonomous killings of humans — autonomous killer quadcopters left ‘everything dead’ says senior Ukrainian defense industry figure

A watershed moment occurred on the battlefields of Ukraine in 2024 when 10 fully autonomous AI-controlled quadcopter drones were sent to the front lines against Russia with ‘Terminator Mode’ engaged.

AI summary Ukraine reportedly used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers in a test two years ago, with one source stating that ten AI-controlled quadcopters were deployed in 2024. The use of autonomous drones for lethal attacks is described as rare and a significant development in warfare.

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Dev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software, stoking fears of unstoppable ads — delivers 360p video at 30 FPS and acts as a ‘bridge for AI’

A new and unique video streaming solution is pitched as a 'high-performance, real-time ASCII video rendering engine' that can be used to broadcast 'an unblockable video stream.'

Anthropic says it has taken its latest AI models offline to comply with new export controls

AI giant Anthropic said Friday it has taken its latest artificial intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration to prevent their use by foreign nationals.

Visa is handling AI-prompted transactions for OpenAI - but can you trust it?

A new partnership between Visa and OpenAI takes the next step in AI-led purchasing. Here's what an expert wants you to know.

A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.

Andrew Yang says the next startup wave isn’t building AI. It’s lowering the cost of living.

Andrew Yang thinks the biggest startup opportunity of the next decade is not building AI. It is lowering the cost of living for the people AI is about to displace. In a TechCrunch interview, the former presidential candidate and UBI advocate laid out a thesis: as AI compresses wages and eliminates entry-level jobs, the market […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI summary Andrew Yang stated in a TechCrunch interview that the next major startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living, not building AI. He believes that as AI displaces workers and compresses wages, startups should focus on reducing expenses like housing, food, and wireless. Yang compiled a list of items Americans overpay for and sees a gold rush in returning that money to consumers.

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OpenAI is under investigation by 42 state attorneys general, days after filing for its IPO

A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. New York’s attorney general served the company with a subpoena on Friday demanding documents on advertising, user engagement and retention, consumer and health data, its treatment of minors and seniors, deep-learning models, and internal […] This story…

AI summary Компания OpenAI готовится к выходу на IPO, однако столкнулась с масштабным расследованием со стороны 42 генеральных прокуроров штатов США. Расследование, о котором впервые сообщила Wall Street Journal, включает запрос документов по рекламе, вовлеченности пользователей, обработке данных и другим аспектам деятельности компании.

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OpenAI is facing investigation from a group of state attorneys general

A coalition of state attorneys general is asking OpenAI for documents about its activities.

Here’s How AI Agents Can Protect EV Chargers

An AI agent system proposed by researchers in Spain promises to prevent energy theft and damage to EV chargers, as well as the critical energy infrastructure that powers them.

Anthropic blocks all customers' access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Anthropic has suspended all access to its new AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to comply with a government order citing national security concerns.

Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive

Commerce dept. worries that a Fable 5 "jailbreak" could be a national security threat.

AI summary Anthropic a suspendu l'accès à ses modèles Claude Fable 5 et Mythos 5, quatre jours après leur lancement, suite à une directive du département du Commerce américain. Selon Ars Technica, le département s'inquiète de ce qu'un « jailbreak » de Fable 5 pourrait constituer une menace pour la sécurité nationale. Clubic précise qu'Anthropic a obéi à cette directive de l'administration Trump et a coupé l'accès à tous ses clients vendredi soir.

Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI

Anthropic isn't hiding its frustration. "We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people," the company wrote in a blog post.

Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order

“The government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or ‘jailbreaking’ Fable 5,” the company said in a blog post.