March 2, 2026

OpenAI’s “compromise” with the Pentagon is what Anthropic feared

On February 28, OpenAI announced it had reached a deal that will allow the US military to use its technologies in classified settings. CEO Sam Altman said the negotiations, which the company began pursuing only after the Pentagon’s public reprimand of Anthropic, were “definitely rushed.” In its announcements, OpenAI took great pains to say that…

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Arthur releases open source tool to help companies find the best LLM for a job

August 17, 2023
Arthur, a machine learning morning monitoring startup, has benefited from the interest in generative AI this year, and it has been developing tools to help companies work with LLMs more effectively. Today it is releasing Arthur Bench, an open source tool to help users find the best LLM for a particular set of data. Adam […]

The Download: AI in warfare, and US climate policies

August 17, 2023
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. Inside the messy ethics of making war with machines In recent years, intelligent autonomous weapons—weapons that can select and fire upon targets without any human input—have become a matter of serious concern. Giving…

CISA says hackers are exploiting a new file transfer bug in Citrix ShareFile

August 17, 2023
Hackers are exploiting a newly discovered vulnerability in yet another enterprise file transfer software, the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency has warned. CISA on Wednesday added a vulnerability in Citrix ShareFile, tracked as CVE-2023-24489, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The agency warned that the flaw poses “significant risks to the federal enterprise,” and mandated […]