The ‘botlash’ movement is gaining momentum
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Google Antigravity falls to Earth under compute burden • The Register
Google customers paying $250 per month for AI Ultra subscriptions and less extravagant spenders have been surprised to…
Billions wiped off US firms over fears of mass job losses from AI
Billions of dollars were wiped off the stock market value of US-listed software and financial companies on Monday…
The persona selection model \ Anthropic
AI assistants like Claude can seem surprisingly human. They express joy after solving tricky coding tasks. They express…
Literary agents urge writers to avoid AI as they see ‘change in nature of submissions’
© Shutterstock A number of literary agencies are adding amendments to their submission guidelines urging authors not to…
As we enter the age of the AI-rranged marriage, here’s why I hate Fate | Van Badham
The Guardian reported on the arrival of “Fate” and, friends, I laughed. Or maybe I cried. It’s apparently…
Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs • The Register
Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman have written a paper arguing that…
IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New…
Detecting and preventing distillation attacks \ Anthropic
We have identified industrial-scale campaigns by three AI laboratories—DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax—to illicitly extract Claude’s capabilities to improve…
Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’ | Sam Altman
The OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, has tried to ease concerns about how much power is used by artificial…