AI Industry: Models, Agents & Business
Andrej Karpathy announced he has joined Anthropic, marking a high-profile move for the AI researcher formerly at Tesla and OpenAI.
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a company known for building high-quality API SDKs, to strengthen its developer platform and tooling.
Anthropic is expanding its compute infrastructure to xAI's Colossus2 data center and will use Nvidia's GB200 chips to scale training and inference.
Anthropic Research · www.anthropic.com
Anthropic published a policy paper arguing it is essential for the US and allies to maintain an AI lead over authoritarian governments like China's CCP, outlining two scenarios for 2028.
OpenAI reports that one of its models has disproved a long-standing conjecture in discrete geometry, demonstrating AI capability in mathematical research.
Privacy, Security & Surveillance
Simon Willison · simonwillison.net
The FTC is requiring Cox Media Group and two other firms to pay nearly $1 million to settle charges they deceived customers about an 'Active Listening' AI-powered marketing service that claimed to use device microphones for ad targeting.
An investigation reveals Seattle Shield, a police-operated intelligence-sharing network that enables surveillance partnerships between law enforcement and private companies.
Research demonstrates that Mullvad VPN exit IP addresses can serve as a fingerprinting vector, potentially undermining the privacy the VPN is meant to provide.