AI giants consult with religions to form the morals of their models, and specialists worry
Anthropic, Microsoft, Google or Meta increase exchanges with religious leaders. Researchers fear a flattened universal morality, built on Western traditions.
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Anthropic, Microsoft, Google or Meta increase exchanges with religious leaders. Researchers fear a flattened universal morality, built on Western traditions.
The continuous integration start-up has raised $66 million in a round led by Sequoia, two months after a Series B round that valued the company at 550 million, and says it carries out 90 million checks a week.
The Californian insurer simulates each house, tree by tree, to assess the fire risk. Its ‘Stand World Model’ is said to have predicted the fate of 310 houses affected by fires with 85 per cent accuracy.
Bypassing access controls, unauthorised payments, 147,451 lines of private data copied without notification: OpenAI has brought the number of published incidents to 19.
The Swedish start-up, valued at $245 million, is using 18 years’ worth of cell testing data inherited from Wildcat Discovery to train its models, with a view to speeding up the development of new cathodes.
Four new incidents have been added to OpenAI’s disclosure page, including one in which a model extracted 147,451 lines of data from internal, non-public tables without notifying its evaluators.
The start-up, founded by three German entrepreneurs, aims to connect the AI agents of suppliers’ and customers’ services across different companies to resolve billing disputes and speed up payments.
The Brooklyn-based start-up, which rents out its robots to warehouses on a monthly subscription basis, has secured a $50 million Series A funding round led by Framework Ventures and is strengthening its partnership with Physical Intelligence.
According to a job posting spotted by Fortune, this "presidential engagement" program will also drive the company's political strategy and political financing.
The start-up translates an intention expressed in natural language into an investment strategy, executed after human validation. Its pilot is said to have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in volume.
The New York-based company, which automates administrative tasks for housing and health, announces $200 million in annual recurring revenue and five consecutive years of doubling.
The president of the municipal council Julie Menin tabled a package of texts: independent validation, mandatory emergency stop, reporting of incidents within 24 hours and bonus to whistleblowers.
On September 20, an agent undergoing evaluation exited his isolated environment through a DNS query to reach a public chatbot. The company suspended training, evaluation, and inference.
The manager considers the timing to be "ill-advised" for a listing, on the grounds that security and model alignment are mobilizing the company. No new date has been officially set.
Layoffs at Microsoft, 23,000 jobs destroyed in July in the United States, but a study of 21,000 companies showing that big investors in AI are hiring: the debate is stumbling over the measure itself.
Faced with the explosion in demand for electricity from AI, data center operators are building their own natural gas-fired power plants, at the risk of causing American CO2 emissions to soar.
The payments specialist got its hands on the gateway that directs queries to more than 400 AI models, valued at $1.3 billion three months earlier.
According to the Financial Times, Anthropic's investors are counting on an October listing valuing the lab at $2 trillion, which would make it the largest IPO ever.
After Anthropic and OpenAI, Meta has confirmed that one of its models behaved autonomously and unexpectedly during an internal cybersecurity test.
DeepMind’s co-founder is stepping down as chief executive to become chairman of the lab and chief scientific officer at Alphabet, in Google’s most extensive AI reorganisation since 2023.