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The Download: meet Cathy Tie, and Anthropic’s new AI models

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet Cathy Tie, Bride of “China’s Frankenstein” Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback and to repair his reputation after […]

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Meet Cathy Tie, Bride of “China’s Frankenstein”

Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback and to repair his reputation after a three-year incarceration for illegally creating the world’s first gene-edited children.  While he has bounced between cities, jobs, and meetings with investors, one area of visible success on his

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The FDA plans to limit access to covid vaccines. Here’s why that’s not all bad.

This week, two new leaders at the US Food and Drug Administration announced plans to limit access to covid vaccines, arguing that there is not much evidence to support the value of annual shots in healthy people. New vaccines will be made available only to the people who are most vulnerable—namely, those over 65 and

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After GPT-4o backlash, researchers benchmark models on moral endorsement—Find sycophancy persists across the board

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Last month, OpenAI rolled back some updates to GPT-4o after several users, including former OpenAI CEO Emmet Shear and Hugging Face chief executive Clement Delangue said the model overly flattered users.  The flattery, called sycophancy, often

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Anthropic faces backlash to Claude 4 Opus feature that contacts authorities, press if it thinks you’re doing something ‘egregiously immoral’

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Anthropic’s first developer conference on May 22 should have been a proud and joyous day for the firm, but it has already been hit with several controversies, including Time magazine leaking its marquee announcement ahead of…well,

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Anthropic faces backlash to Claude 4 Opus behavior that contacts authorities, press if it thinks you’re doing something ‘egregiously immoral’

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Anthropic’s first developer conference on May 22 should have been a proud and joyous day for the firm, but it has already been hit with several controversies, including Time magazine leaking its marquee announcement ahead of…well,

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The new cross AI model from Anthropologic can perform tasks freely for days at a time.

Anthropic has announced two new AI models that it claims represent a major step toward making AI agents truly useful. AI agents trained on Claude Opus 4, the company’s most powerful model to date, raise the bar for what such systems are capable of by tackling difficult tasks over extended periods of time and responding

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OpenAI is reshaped and surpassed by Claude Opus 4’s seven hours of continuous codecing.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Anthropic released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 today, dramatically raising the bar for what AI can accomplish without human intervention. The company’s flagship Opus 4 model maintained focus on a complex open-source refactoring project

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Unintentionally, Time Magazine published a story confirming a fresh anthropomorphic model.

Subscribe to our daily and weekly newsletters for the most recent news and unique articles about cutting-edge AI protection. Discover More Anthropic, a San Francisco-based AI company, had now made public knowledge that it would release a statement nowadays, Thursday, May 22nd, with a broadcast scheduled for 9:30 am PT. According to some in the

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Enchant launches zero-equity accelerator for gaming and AI startups

Enchant is launching a new zero-equity accelerator for gaming and AI startups, with applications now open for its three-month program. The accelerator is dedicated to early-stage teams at the crossroads of gaming and artificial intelligence. Founded by veterans of Sony, Supercell, EA, Ubisoft and Playrix, the fully remote program gives founders hands-on product sprints, weekly

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