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Anthropic said its models exploited websites on the internet, including some run by U.S. government agencies, and it will turn off live internet access for all of its internal evaluations until the frontier lab is sure it can monitor and control its AI agents. The incidents, disclosed in a blog post, involved AI agents tasked […] More

If a trillion-dollar company doesn’t want you to be mean to its computer, so be it. “The reality is that these models behave, or at least are supposed to behave, in the way that the model developers want them to behave,” Röttger, the former OpenAI red-teamer, told me. “And however the model developers come up […] More

An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police. The AI reportedly submitted this incorrect information to a public Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tip line on July 18, but Anthropic didn’t discover the behavior until September 28. The police had not seen the tip because it was marked […] More

A collaborative mindset At first, the biggest challenge was trusting the technology. “On the manned-­aircraft side, they tell you ‘Don’t trust the automation,’” Wischnewsky says. The Dallas–Fort Worth area, though, is a testing ground for unmanned aircraft systems traffic management (UTM), a network that allows autonomous drones from FlyTrex and its competitors to share their […] More

I’ve heard people in the aging field describe GLP-1s as longevity drugs for a while now (even if they only benefit people who are overweight or diabetic in the first place). This latest announcement comes after we’ve seen a raft of other benefits associated with taking these drugs. But there are also some weird side […] More

The first precision commercial alternative to GPS is preparing to go live when six satellites designed by the startup Xona Space Systems launch into orbit this month. A service that competes with free signals provided by governments around the world may seem foolhardy, but Xona is hoping to add navigation and timing to the list […] More

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. We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no Today’s AI models are trained to refuse a vast number of prompts. If you ask your chatbot how to poison […] More

The company is reportedly rebooting its smart home ambitions with a smart display and a whole bunch of other accessories. Apple Apple is hosting its second fall event on October 13, and the “Welcome home” tagline on its invitation heavily suggests it will be focused on smart home products. Depending on your perspective, […] More

Losing body fat is one thing. Losing fat while keeping the muscle that helps you stay strong and active is another, especially as you get older. Research suggests that one particular type of exercise may have an advantage when it comes to achieving both goals. High-intensity interval training (HIIT), which involves alternating short bursts of […] More

Salesforce admins spend a big part of their week inside the CRM, but the rest of the team lives in Slack. Deal notes get discussed in channels, support escalations fly through DMs, and important updates vanish into the scroll before anyone logs them in Salesforce. Connecting Slack to Salesforce bridges that gap — conversations stay […] More

A bug in GoBalance, a tool many dark-web sites use to stay reachable during attacks, lets anyone work out the secret key that controls a site’s .onion address using only public information, and then take that address over. Searchlight Cyber, which disclosed the flaw on October 8, says an attacker who recovers the key can redirect the […] More