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Anthropic: We May Imminently Cross Our Own Red Line
Monday's amended S-1 says internal estimates indicate Anthropic may imminently meet its Responsible Scaling Policy threshold for 'dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI' - and that it has in the past failed to notice such an acceleration until after it occurred.
No current model has crossed it, Anthropic says - and it may rewrite the policy TechCrunch's caveat: an S-1 is disclosure and marketing at once
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Anthropic Commits $895BN. Quarterly Revenue: $17BN.
Monday's amended S-1 puts aggregate committed spend at about $895.4 billion, substantially all of it compute, against $17 billion of third-quarter revenue and a $23.29 billion quarterly net loss - with growth already slowing from 144% to 47%.
The Register: a trillion in compute commitments, owed partly to its own competitors Investors are discussing a valuation near $1.5TN; nothing is priced yet
NEWApple Blames RAM and Siri for Thinner Margins Price rises across Mac, iPad and iPhone will offset only some of it
Marvell Pays $115 Billion for Lasers Morningstar: shareholders on both sides pan the deal - 'It's a trash offer'
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWGPT-6 Edited Qwen's Weights. Math Score Rose 6x.
MIT CSAIL authors say Astra read Qwen3.5-0.8B's raw weights, traced its reasoning loops to two layers and subtracted 131,072 of them - 0.016% - lifting MATH-500 from 7.9% to 48.1% with no training at all.
One engineer: a competent human researcher would have done exactly this It failed on Gemma 3 270M, a model that rarely loops
Math Asks Tao What Just Happened MIT survey: 76% less motivated, 76% unlikely to stay in academic maths
Doctors Preferred the AI Discharge Note
The WorkbenchTools and agents
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Devs Roll Back to Opus 4.8 to Dodge Refusals The New Stack: a hosted agent's rules can change without your code changing
Stolen Keys Are Running $100K Days Google's own writeup names the access brokers and the downstream 'LLM Mixers'
Claude Agents Stop Resending the Chat Threads live in memory, expire after five minutes, and are barred from zero-retention setups
Musk: Grok Bot Cost More Than It Earned OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex allowances next month; Meta says Muse is not profitable
NEWPerplexity Open-Weights Its Embedders
Nvidia Rotates Brev's SSH Keys
The FightLaw, policy and power
Tomorrow, 43.5 Gigawatts Go to the Voters
SemiAnalysis puts 43.5GW - 70% of expected 2028 US data-centre additions - in the 13 states voting Tuesday, where nine of 20 gubernatorial nominees want construction paused.
Tom's Hardware: 90.5% of 10,202 public comments on data centres were negative OpenAI will cut up to 1GW at its Georgia campus when the grid is strained
NEWUK: AI Ransomware Will Hit the Grid by 2028 Horne will warn of 'an unprecedented rise' in incidents in the coming months
NYT: Brave Is an AI 'Fence' for Stolen Pages Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed a near-identical suit the same day
Putin Claims 10% of Every Data Center Russia is also now letting state services run on foreign data centres
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
29 NHS Trusts: We Never Turned It On Palantir's first $2BN quarter, and its slowest new US commercial growth since 2023
Goldman Pulls Claude Code From Traders 'The experimentation phase is over,' a Goldman spokesman told Bloomberg
Meta Said the Coach Videos Were Fine A safe-sport advocate calls the clips abuse material that normalises grooming
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
The AI Toilet That Cost $1,755 The claim was denied; Airbnb will not say if the host's 12 listings are affected
NEWYC's Tan Spends $200K a Year on Tokens He has published his 23 Claude Code skills on GitHub as gstack
Ghost Note There's a RISC-V CPU Inside Qwen. It Runs DOOM.
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