Literary agents urge writers to avoid AI as they see ‘change in nature of submissions’
© Shutterstock A number of literary agencies are adding amendments to their submission guidelines urging authors not to…
The persona selection model \ Anthropic
AI assistants like Claude can seem surprisingly human. They express joy after solving tricky coding tasks. They express…
Google Antigravity falls to Earth under compute burden • The Register
Google customers paying $250 per month for AI Ultra subscriptions and less extravagant spenders have been surprised to…
As we enter the age of the AI-rranged marriage, here’s why I hate Fate | Van Badham
The Guardian reported on the arrival of “Fate” and, friends, I laughed. Or maybe I cried. It’s apparently…
Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
Meta’s director of safety and alignment at its “superintelligence” lab, supposedly the person at the company who is…
‘I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb’: OpenClaw AI chose to ‘speedrun’ deleting Meta AI safety director’s inbox due to a ‘rookie error’
Last month I checked out the hype surrounding Moltbot, AKA Clawdbot, AKA OpenClaw (third time’s the charm?). I…
Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs • The Register
Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that…
IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New…
Detecting and preventing distillation attacks \ Anthropic
We have identified industrial-scale campaigns by three AI laboratories—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—to illicitly extract Claude’s capabilities to improve…
Gemini users say their chat histories have quietly vanished • The Register
Over the past few days, complaints have stacked up from people who say months of conversations with Google’s…
Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’ | Sam Altman
The OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, has tried to ease concerns about how much power is used by artificial…
You think AI is wasted energy? Try raising a human • The Register
AI is being unfairly targeted over its energy use, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims, as the naysayers ignore…