A new world, hard to grasp and even harder to predict.
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Amanda Askell, the in-house philosopher at Anthropic, joins “Hard Fork” to discuss the company’s new “Claude Constitution” and why training the company’s A.I. model on ethics is an important task.
Auto Browse can shop for clothes, plan a trip, and buy tickets for you. Or at least, that’s the idea.
With Donald Trump tearing up the world order, governments across Europe are having to confront the fact that most of the technology they rely on comes from US companies. French officials have taken a step this week to reduce their dependence on US digital infrastructure, announcing they have stopped using Zoom, the US-owned video meeting…
Civitai—an online marketplace for buying and selling AI-generated content, backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz—is letting users buy custom instruction files for generating celebrity deepfakes. Some of these files were specifically designed to make pornographic images banned by the site, a new analysis has found. The study, from researchers at Stanford and Indiana…
House price fantasies | Coyote confirmation | Premier Inns | Longevity advice | Apostrophes I always regard the house prices in your fantasy house hunt feature with wry amusement. After all, it is supposed to be fantasy. However, last weekend’s selection made my blood boil (Homes for sale to inspire artists in England – in…
Weather service research concludes that less accurate probability-based predictions are still considered helpful The Met Office is to lean into one of Britain’s favourite pastimes – talking about the weather – by launching a new two-week forecast. At present, the publicly funded weather and climate service offers a seven-day forecast on its website and app…
In Minneapolis, it has become a battle of phone versus phone.