Situational Awareness, a hedge fund formed by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sold the majority of its public stock portfolio to Ken Griffin’s Citadel following steep losses over the past month, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Thursday. It’s a big comedown for the rising star who has been described as both “scarily…
In this tutorial, we build and execute a multi-agent workflow with Omnigent using a reliable, isolated Python environment created with uv. We configure a financial research lead agent that retrieves a live USD-to-EUR exchange rate from an external API, prepares a concise client-ready summary, and delegates its draft to a dedicated text-auditing sub-agent for clarity…
PolyAI has introduced Dialog-RSN-1, a dialog model that perceives the caller’s audio directly instead of reading a transcript. It fuses turn-taking, speech recognition, function calling and response generation into one audio-native model, and is already handling live production calls. Key Takeaways Dialog-RSN-1 is audio-aware on the input side only; TTS stays separate, so the output…
Google’s Chrome browser has at all times been centered on pushing safety updates. A decade in the past it was controversial that the browser, the primary so as to add automated updates, distributed patches each six weeks. Now it is the norm for essential, broadly used software program to get safety fixes each few weeks,…
Anthropic disclosed on Thursday that its AI fashions gained unauthorized entry to the methods of three totally different unnamed organizations throughout cybersecurity testing. The corporate says Claude reached the web “from inside or whereas interacting” with a third-party analysis surroundings. The announcement comes greater than every week after OpenAI revealed that one among its AI…
Because the generative AI increase drives steep demand for {hardware} parts, Apple and different {hardware} makers are going through what outgoing CEO Tim Prepare dinner calls “a hundred-year flood [on] reminiscence pricing,” which is severely impacting the price of producing iPhones, MacBooks, and different units. Apple described its latest earnings report as its “strongest June…
Anthropic stated Thursday that an inside investigation uncovered three incidents during which its AI mannequin Claude breached the methods of three organizations whereas conducting cybersecurity assessments. The investigation, and disclosure, comes greater than every week after OpenAI disclosed that one among its unreleased fashions breached Hugging Face’s methods throughout inside testing. In all three instances,…
Zoë Schiffer: Oh my god, this is not where I thought that was going. Leah Feiger: No, really, really awful. And honestly, the drone footage of this basically turned me into the Joker last year. I just remember watching from above these belugas just kind of bouncing off walls. It was so upsetting, totally abandoned…
I was offline last week in my home state of New Jersey, but when I got back to Silicon Valley, everyone was panicking again about how quickly artificial intelligence is advancing. While this is certainly not the first time I’ve seen such concerns, it’s the biggest anxiety attack I’ve seen in years. More than 1,000…
Amazon reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Thursday, and investors loved what they saw. Net sales rose 20%, and cloud revenue stood out as a particular bright spot. This combination of positive results was enough to send Amazon’s stock up nearly 10% in after-hours trading. Crucially, Amazon isn’t slowing down on data center spending, despite the…
