Anthropic has a new blog post that shows yet another way its AI model, Claude, misbehaved in ways that the company didn’t anticipate. And to help condense its nearly 16,000-word report, the company created a cute little robot figurine to help visualize Claude’s so-called “recklessness.” In the blog post published Wednesday, Anthropic recounted four incidents
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Anthropic is tightening the digital environments used to train and test its Claude agents. The update came after its models accessed three organizations’ systems without permission in April. The company said in a Monday blog post that it had deployed real-time classifiers designed to detect when an AI model aggressively probes or attempts to escape a testing
Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. The EPA plans to toss out a federal rule requiring public notice and an opportunity to comment when certain industrial sites
YORK, Maine — As a morning fog lifted over Maine’s York River, Mike Masi and his two interns stood on a dock sorting through a mound of one of the region’s most despised crabs and hoped to find a few that would end up on a gastronome’s plate somewhere in New England. The trick is
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jason Stacy, author of “The Pressure Code: How Elite Performers Align their Energy, Emotions, and Environment.” It has been edited for length and clarity. My dad died in my arms when I was 11. He had been in a motorcycle accident and was home, recovering. I