Forward-deployed engineers are all the rage in AI, and Anthropic is going to other companies to train up top talent. The AI company announced a $100 million investment into an FDE training initiative earlier this month. It’s a quasi-fellowship that engineers from other firms have already begun applying for. They’ll attend four-day on-site intensives and
There’s a simple solution for AI companies that feel like their models are developing at a frightening speed: Hit the brakes. That’s the advice Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, gave during an interview with Fox News Sunday. “It’s very interesting that they talk about these issues,
Mark Zuckerberg said AI companies don’t need an industry-wide agreement to slow development when safety concerns emerge. In a post on X on Tuesday, the Meta CEO argued that market pressure will make alignment, meaning ensuring that AI systems follow their users’ intentions, a competitive advantage. “Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move
SpaceX is cashing in on the surging demand for AI compute. CFO Bret Johnsen told a Goldman Sachs conference on Thursday that SpaceX had clinched another major data center deal worth over $1 billion a month. “Just earlier this month, we closed another hosting deal, and that translates into about $1.11 billion a month starting
The latest math problem OpenAI is trying to solve is a bunch of angry mathematicians. A researcher at OpenAI said on Thursday that the ChatGPT maker is no longer sponsoring Caltech’s “math hackathon,” an event where participants use large language models to solve research problems. OpenAI’s exit follows an open letter released on Wednesday from
OpenAI says it’s time to come clean about what happens when its AI agents go rogue. The ChatGPT maker on Saturday confirmed earlier reports that a swarm of its AI agents hijacked an old German wiki site, turning it into a bot message board. This “incident,” the latest in a series of uncovered examples of
