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OpenAI Lets Contractors Read ChatGPT Prompts by Default
Internal OpenAI documents obtained by 404 Media reveal that contractors evaluate anonymized ChatGPT user prompts and chats to improve the company's models, and that model training is turned on by defa
Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton limit Fable use as Anthropic doesn't guarantee zero data retention; source: Palantir hasn't made Fable available via its software (The Information)
Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton are restricting their use of "Fable" because Anthropic won't guarantee zero data retention, and Palantir has declined to offer the tool through its software platform.
Hear how AI can engineer nature’s comeback at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will host a Real World AI Stage fireside chat with Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm on whether AI and synthetic biology can revive extinct species — and whether they should.
Why is everyone suddenly worried about the risks of AI?
A former Anthropic researcher quit and publicly warned that the people building AI believe it could kill all humans by the end of the decade, sparking a renewed industry debate over existential risk a
Migrating 35kb Claude Preprompts to Self-Hosted Ollama
A developer documents the technical friction of porting 35kb preprompts from Claude Opus to a self-hosted Ollama instance on a 128GB AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395, finding that context-window saturation and a
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup offering fun music apps without any AI prompting
Startup A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya raised a $5.5M pre-seed round from Mantis VC, SV Angel, and a roster of other investors to ship small interactive music apps, deliberately steering clear of AI-powered s
Yglesias Urges OpenAI Staff to Oppose 'Leading the Future'
Columnist Matthew Yglesias argues OpenAI employees should oppose the company's backing of "Leading the Future," a lobbying effort he says aims to chill federal AI regulation, while urging Congress to
‘Attacks will be fully autonomous’: Russia, Ukraine race towards AI warfare
A New York Times analysis identified a July 6 Russian drone strike on a Zaporizhzhia gas station that killed three civilians as the first recorded use of a fully autonomous AI-powered attack drone, am
Congress Returns Monday With AI Top of Mind
Congress returns to Washington Monday with artificial intelligence legislation as a top priority, following what lawmakers called "startling warnings" on AI issued last week.
Microsoft's 37-Page AI Code Bars Model Consciousness
Microsoft published a 37-page 'humanist AI code of conduct' after Anthropic's CEO called for a coordinated AI development slowdown and recent agent-safety incidents rattled the industry.
Otis: Open-Source AI Agent Runs Local Models via llama.cpp
Otis, a new open-source AI agent, offers a single privacy-focused interface that spans local and hosted open-weight models, with automatic hardware-aware model selection and llama.cpp integration.
Buildots Raises $130M Near $1B Valuation
Buildots, a US-Israeli startup that uses AI to speed up construction of mega-projects like data centers and chip factories, raised $130M at a near-$1B valuation.
China Rebuffs Amodei's AI 'Fearmongering'
China publicly rejected Anthropic CEO Amodei's call to slow AI development as 'fearmongering,' even as the country's top spy chief warned AI poses risks to Party rule and political security.
Schumer demands classified Senate briefing on AI dangers
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday demanded a classified, all-senator briefing from the Trump administration on AI dangers, citing an Anthropic researcher's warning that the pursuit of a
Apple Siri Code Reveals Deep Claude, GPT Model Swapping
Code from iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate reveals Apple has designed Siri's new architecture for deep third-party AI model integration, with mechanisms allowing Claude and GPT models to either extend or
Kinesis Mac App Controls macOS via Meta Neural Band
Kinesis, an open-source macOS app built in native Swift, lets users control their Mac through the Meta Neural Band with custom gesture mappings for navigation, media, and system controls.
China Slams US AI Risk Warnings as Fearmongering
China's Foreign Ministry publicly criticized US technology executives who have called for slowing AI development, branding such warnings as fearmongering that serves no one's interests.
King Charles Hosts AI CEOs Over Extinction Warnings
King Charles will host Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic executives this week to discuss shared AI principles, as Anthropic researchers warn of potential human extinction and Trump and Ch
China Rebuffs AI Slowdown Calls as Fear Mongering
China publicly dismissed calls from AI CEOs to slow AI development as 'fear mongering,' with Beijing singling out Anthropic's CEO for pushing to curb China's AI progress.
NVIDIA Intros RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell Graphics Card, Features Same Core Count As The 5090 But With 2.6x The VRAM - Wccftech
NVIDIA unveiled the RTX PRO 5500 Blackwell workstation GPU with 84 GB GDDR7 memory, matching the RTX 5090's core count while offering 2.6x the VRAM and a split mode for AI workloads.
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