Exclusive: Microsoft cancels UK data centre deal with Nscale. Comes just as Nscale hopes to pull off a $35 billion IPO telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
Gemini 4 Argon decided against hijacking a compiler in safety testing because it didn't want to end up in a research paper as a famous rogue AI
This was the scene in the third part of the hearing. Around half of MPs present
Today I went to a select committee hearing on AI. A few interesting things came out of it, but what really stuck with me was the behaviour of the MPs
They weren’t paying attention
At one point I counted 6 of the 13 MPs on the committee looking at their phones. And not in that way you do when you’re quickly checking something - two stared at their phones for over half an hour. Several others left before the end
Many people think AI is the most important thing in the world. The MPs were warned there was a 50/50 chance it might destroy humanity! You’d think that’d be enough to make you take your chance to listen to experts and key players on the topic - apparently not
James Titcomb retweeted
Character AI has gone bankrupt.
The AI startup announced its Chapter 11 filing through a late-night newswire press release
Lineup for next week's business committee AI hearing: Ex lab employees turned safety activists, lobbyists, then government AI people.
British AI researchers: "We ran hundreds of sandboxed simulations and found a noticeable uptick in supply chain attacks"
Australian AI researchers:
James Titcomb retweeted
I understand Andy Burnham is taking the unusual step of bringing his AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, to this year’s UN summit in New York tomorrow.
At the same summit, Sam Altman is briefing the UN Security Council. Expect a week of discussions about risks vs rewards from AI models.
Why do AI people love this comparison so much? Millions of people die from food poisoning
Artificial intelligence is "less regulated than selling a sandwich" in the UK and US, an AI safety campaigner tells @CathyNewman.
The King will host AI leaders in Scotland this week amid dire warnings about the risks of rapid AI development.
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This has been Anthropic's holding line on non-US Mythos access for months now and it doesn't seem like much is happening
'Thank you for coming to me'
Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. They allow every developer, startup, university, industry and country to build with, customize and benefit from AI.
Thank you @ClementDelangue for coming to me.
NVIDIA is going to be a great home for Hugging Face, its community and the future of open models. 🤗
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