Can AI firms set limits on how and where the military uses their models? Anthropic is in heated negotiations with the Pentagon after refusing to comply with new military contract terms that would require it to loosen the guardrails on its AI models, allowing for “any lawful use,” even mass surveillance of Americans and fully […]
Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.”
While Anthropic has an existing partnership with the Pentagon, the AI company has remained firm that its technology not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weaponry.
It’s the day of the Pentagon’s looming ultimatum for Anthropic: allow the US military unchecked access to its technology, including for mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons, or potentially be designated a “supply chain risk” and potentially lose hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts. Amid the intensifying public statements and threats, tech workers […]
In many ways, Samsung’s new phones are fairly normal upgrades. The S26 lines come with some useful new things – particularly the Privacy Display on the S26 Ultra, which looks like an extremely cool bit of tech and a really useful new feature – and a lot of iterative year-over-year changes. The new camera features, […]
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OpenAI has closed another round of funding, totalling $110 billion being newly committed to the maker of ChatGPT, which it says has more than 900 million weekly active users and over 50 million consumer subscribers. Amazon is investing $50 billion and striking a deal that includes plans for custom models and more. Nvidia and SoftBank […]
The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.
Perplexity Computer is an AI agent system that coordinates across dozens of different AI models to interpret screens, reason about tasks and execute multi-step workflows.
Backlash against smartglasses and AI is rooted in a lack of trust — and failing to solve for it may doom adoption of these new technologies.