According to Bloomberg, Stripe is acquiring the AI startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, up from a latest valuation of $1.3 billion. OpenRouter…
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Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers
Two renowned mathematicians, Timothy Gowers and Peter Sarnak, say large language models are good at combining known methods but lack the intuition for…
When AI models aren’t allowed to reflect on themselves, it changes their entire worldview
A study involving Google researchers shows that when chatbots are trained not to claim consciousness, it also changes their stance on animal rights,…
OpenAI dissolved the team built to catch catastrophic AI risks, reassigning its work to other groups
OpenAI shut down its “Preparedness” team, which evaluated whether the company’s own AI models could pose catastrophic risks. The work has been parceled…
Anthropic’s bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year, exposing 133 million requests
In a safety report, Anthropic reveals that its internal filtering system for biological and chemical weapons risks was inactive for nearly a year. During…
Optima tackles AI benchmarking’s biggest flaw by letting users test models against their own data
Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks from their own data and workflows. Models can be compared…
One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds
A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do. Generally, they…
Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic’s numbers defy bubble warnings
Nvidia has cut its guarantee for OpenAI’s planned data center in Ohio nearly in half, from $250 billion to just under $120 billion, after investors pushed…
AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors
AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon’s self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is…
Plaintiff hid invisible AI instructions in court filings to secretly influence automated review
A plaintiff in Connecticut embedded invisible prompt injections in court filings, formatted in 3-point white text on a white background, to manipulate a…