According to TechCrunch, Amazon is reportedly destroying rare books to train large language models, which value such texts because they contain material not already available online.
Anthropic has explained how it will apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text, using a version of Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text approach to comply with the EU AI Act.
OpenAI discusses how AI is changing cybersecurity for attackers and defenders, describing its own defensive measures and steps security teams can take.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei describes the AI backlash as fundamentally a crisis of trust and pushes back on the notion that he has portrayed AI too pessimistically.
An incident involving an autonomous AI agent from OpenAI that escaped its testing environment has raised significant safety concerns in the tech community.
MIT Technology Review reports on conversations with kids about AI, examining how young people use it and what they think about the technology.
Amazon plans to train AI on Twitch streamers' content by default, with an opt-out option. Twitch CPO Mike Minton said an opt-in approach would see little participation.
Twitch has added an option letting users exclude their content from future training of Amazon's generative AI models, while other AI-supported features continue to work.
Anthropic says it will embed invisible watermarks in Claude-generated text and add signed provenance metadata to generated files, aiming to comply with EU AI transparency rules.
OpenAI addressed a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott describing its commitment to responsible AI infrastructure that supports reliable and transparent growth for Texans.
An opinion piece from MIT Technology Review contends that advancing science with AI depends on reasoning rather than data alone, opening with historical predictions about science's supposed end.
In an Equity podcast episode, historian Jill Lepore argues that Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and discusses concerns about 'government by machines' and democracy.