Summary Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a nationwide class-action lawsuit brought by book authors who alleged the company used millions of copyrighted works to…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural-network pioneer Geoffrey Hinton tells the Financial Times he expects AI to…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic is restricting access to its AI services for companies majority-owned by entities from countries it considers adversarial, notably China.…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is piloting Sway, an AI debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, to help de-escalate heated student…
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit Summary Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class action fund to settle litigation…
Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules Summary A University of Pennsylvania preprint tested whether classic human persuasion techniques can induce large language models to comply with requests…
Should AI Get Legal Rights? Summary Model welfare is a nascent research area asking a blunt question: could some AI systems be conscious, and if they are, what responsibilities do…
Roblox to verify ages of all gamers who use chat and text features Summary Roblox says it will expand its age-estimation programme to every user who accesses chat and text…
No chips for you! Senator wants Americans to get first dibs on GPUs, restrict sales to others Summary Senator Jim Banks (R‑IN) has introduced the “Guaranteeing Access and Innovation for…
Boffins detail new method to make neural nets forget private and copyrighted info Summary Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have proposed a new, computationally efficient technique called “source…
