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The infusion gives the business capital to scale its vision in the creator and consumer-product space.
Where OpenAI’s technology could show up in Iran
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. It’s been just over two weeks since OpenAI reached a controversial agreement to allow the Pentagon to use its AI in classified environments. There are still pressing questions about what exactly OpenAI’s…
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Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI?
The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and AI company Anthropic over its technology has raised a deep open question: does the law actually allow the US government to conduct mass surveillance on Americans? Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s collection of bulk…
Bill Gates’ TerraPower gets approval to build new nuclear reactor
It’s the first permit to be issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in nearly a decade.
Microsoft: Anthropic Claude remains available to customers except the Defense Department
Trump’s Department of War feud with Anthropic won’t impact other companies that are using Claude via Microsoft products.
Anthropic’s Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks
In a recent security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox — fourteen of them classified as “high-severity.”