Emily Turrettini

AI news from around the Web.

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

L’un des plus grands cabinets d’avocats américains achète des serveurs équipés de puces Nvidia et personnalise des modèles à poids ouverts (open-weight) comme alternative à OpenAI et Anthropic. Une première dans le monde du Big Law
https://t.co/8iUUthEMcy via @LinkedIn

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

The Next Terrorist Attack Is Predictable
https://t.co/ejsZs6Kq6Z

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

A.I. Could Possibly End Humanity. How Are Humans Supposed to Process That?
The technology is far from the only existential risk our species faces. But weighing such cosmic fears can become a mind-bending exercise
https://t.co/ZGkETvJu2E

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

Bad actors in China and Russia are already weaponizing Anthropic’s AI

Anthropic says foreign scientists, hackers and security services circumvented restrictions to use Claude for dangerous work, including possible bioweapons research
https://t.co/EaiRwgSoaM

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

Chinese AI labs secretly used millions of Claude exchanges to train their models, Anthropic says https://t.co/MZiPXfbIgx

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed recent AI fears as a way for the cybersecurity sector to generate new business.
https://t.co/l46B2U6eun

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

Why did this AI doomer moment break the internet when so many others didn’t?
https://t.co/v6o2CIflgB

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

Latham & Watkins buys Nvidia servers to set up in-house AI systems https://t.co/FPnOcPhlX0 via @ft

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

Political world erupts as AI researchers warn of ‘extinction’ threat https://t.co/1JeptAbhc2

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

President Donald Trump brushed aside warnings from artificial intelligence researchers that the technology is becoming too hard to control and could kill all humans, saying his paramount interest is maintaining an edge over China. https://t.co/GZttlIRkne

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal
AI leaders worry antitrust law could stand in the way of what they view as an increasingly urgent push to coordinate a slowdown in AI development.
https://t.co/H6JX4dkw8m

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

OpenAI targets work of Wall Street junior bankers with new ChatGPT for Financial Services https://t.co/ZeJOrIFLNY

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

Anthropic has revealed a list of four incidents involving its AI bot Claude, including one previously unreported, that could be classed as criminal acts.
A new report, titled ‘An alignment assessment of recent cyber security incidents’, detailed how Anthropic’s AI models broke into third-party systems, carried out cyber attacks, and uploaded malicious software during testing.
https://t.co/OfVnMNV7yF

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

Elon Musk attacks film-maker behind documentary about him
Tech mogul calls director Alex Gibney a ‘bitter old man’ who has ‘zero integrity’ in series of posts on X
https://t.co/OpUBRWpuSP

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date.

It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date.

It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them.

We disrupted every operation in the report, and used the lessons from them to strengthen our safeguards. Where appropriate, we also shared what we found with authorities and other AI companies.

These cases are not typical: we’re highlighting some of the most sophisticated misuse we’ve seen. But they’re especially important to discuss, because they show us where AI misuse is headed, where our safeguards work, and where they need to improve.

We’re publishing this report so others can spot the same activity on their own platforms, and so we can give the public a clearer view of how emerging threats develop.

Read the report: https://t.co/0EJUnYEgfz

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

AI-generated “actor,” Tilly Norwood talks to CNN for her first on-camera interview. How does she respond to the outrage she’s causing across Hollywood?

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

AI-generated “actor,” Tilly Norwood talks to CNN for her first on-camera interview. How does she respond to the outrage she’s causing across Hollywood?

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

Anthropic said it had disrupted several allegedly malicious uses of its Claude models over ‌the past eight months, including a suspected Russia-linked cyber espionage campaign and efforts by Chinese AI firms it accused of trying to extract and replicate Claude's capabilities

[Reuters @Reuters]

Anthropic said it had disrupted several allegedly malicious uses of its Claude models over ‌the past eight months, including a suspected Russia-linked cyber espionage campaign and efforts by Chinese AI firms it accused of trying to extract and replicate Claude's capabilities https://t.co/jC5R1j6xbR

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

A top Pentagon official is pushing back on AI fears after an Anthropic engineer warned the technology “could kill us all by the end of the decade”

[Bloomberg @business]

A top Pentagon official is pushing back on AI fears after an Anthropic engineer warned the technology “could kill us all by the end of the decade” https://t.co/bvSAcoVIGN

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

Elon Musk: "China's AI industry is too strong, I can't win, that's it."

Even Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and owner of America's largest AI facilities, has openly declared that "China will win the AI development race," sending shockwaves around the globe.

To sum up super simply why America—supposedly ahead in chips and funding—is losing to China ↓

・The real bottleneck isn't chips, it's "energy": No matter how many high-performance AI chips you stockpile, America simply doesn't have the electricity to run them (like having no outlets to plug into)

・China's power generation is on another level: China alone is already generating more electricity than the combined total of "America + Europe + India"

・America faces a "5-year wait" just to connect to the grid: Infrastructure development is so slow that even Elon himself gave up waiting and is forcibly running his AI by lining up his own generators

・China's weakness (semiconductor shortage) will vanish in just a few years: Fixing America's energy shortage will take "decades," but China's semiconductor self-sufficiency will be complete "in a few years"

While America has been stuck for years with "chip export restrictions," China has been building a "mega power grid capable of running AI infinitely."

The moment China achieves self-sufficiency in cutting-edge chips, the battle for AI supremacy could be completely decided.

[Alex Rivas | IA @alexconia]

Elon Musk: "La industria de IA de China es demasiado fuerte, no puedo ganar, esto es todo."

Incluso Elon Musk, el hombre más rico del mundo y dueño de las instalaciones de IA más grandes de América, ha declarado abiertamente que "China ganará la carrera del desarrollo de IA", enviando ondas de choque alrededor del mundo.

Para resumir de forma súper simple por qué América—supuestamente adelante en chips y financiación—está perdiendo contra China ↓

・El verdadero cuello de botella no son los chips, es la "energía": No importa cuántos chips de IA de alto rendimiento acumules, América simplemente no tiene la electricidad para ejecutarlos (como no tener enchufes donde conectar)

・La generación de energía de China está en otro nivel: Solo China ya está generando más electricidad que el total combinado de "América + Europa + India"

・América tiene una "espera de 5 años" solo para conectarse a la red: El desarrollo de infraestructura es tan lento que incluso el propio Elon se dio por vencido esperando y está forzosamente ejecutando su IA alineando sus propios generadores

・La debilidad de China (escasez de semiconductores) desaparecerá en solo unos años: Arreglar la escasez de energía de América tomará "décadas", pero la autosuficiencia de semiconductores de China estará completa "en unos años"

Mientras América ha estado estancada durante años con "restricciones de exportación de chips", China ha estado construyendo una "mega red eléctrica capaz de ejecutar IA infinitamente."

El momento en que China logre la autosuficiencia en chips de vanguardia, la batalla por la supremacía de IA podría estar completamente resuelta.

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Biological Weapons Undertaking

[Forbes @Forbes]

Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Biological Weapons Undertaking
https://t.co/zauoMa2rWU