“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” Coxon said. “I spent the last three years doing pre-training research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” Anthropic’s current head of
August 30, 2026 — 9:30am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA It goes without saying that most Australians spent more time in the past week mourning country icon Dolly Parton, and debating the motives behind the return of the marital pair
Nvidia will officially cap off tech earnings season today after the closing bell. It’s been a tumultuous several weeks for the AI trade and mega-cap tech more broadly, with investors reacting sharply to results on both ends of the spectrum. On one side you had Alphabet and Tesla, which drew investor ire after ramping up
Intertwined Creatures: The Embodied Cognitive Science of Self and Other Anthony Chemero Columbia Univ. Press (2026) Consciousness research is having an AI moment. Will the hype help the field? What does it mean for a machine to be intelligent, sentient or conscious? Can the idea of legal rights for machines ever be meaningfully justified? Those
But now Zhu can sense this freedom being curtailed. She says she finds herself encountering authorities more often in Hong Kong than in mainland China. At one bookshop event, she recalls government officials entering the premises. “They just sat there listening alongside us.” Increasing raids have not only targeted explicitly political shops, according to a
This week, Anthropic announced that it will be adding in a watermark to its outputs, making it highly detectable to tell if something was “processed by Claude.” This should strike fear into the hearts of any students who have become addicted to the sweet, sweet nectar of AI-written term papers and homework. Or anyone using