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Anthropic's new AI model crosses the Rubicon. Why business needs to act now
2+ hour, 11+ min ago (84+ words) AFR Last week, I met with Anthropic's US leadership in Sydney and Canberra. They are smart people and alarmed by what they have built. They are right about the problem, but wrong about the solution. On Wednesday, Anthropic announced Project…...
Zuckerberg reveals costly AI model to power Whatsapp and Instagram
17+ hour, 25+ min ago (73+ words) AFR Meta Platforms debuted its latest artificial intelligence model " its first since chief executive Mark Zuckerberg embarked on a multibillion-dollar overhaul of the company's AI organisation to keep pace with rivals. The highly anticipated model, known as Muse Spark, was…...
The internet is deciding what to remember and what to forget
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (116+ words) AFR Do digital bananas in Hawaiian shirts chatting up pineapples need to be saved for posterity? Probably not. But disentangling what will and will not matter to our cultural memory is proving difficult. The internet is so vast and all-consuming…...
Why AI's fixation on cool leads to "trendslop'
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (40+ words) afr. com Researchers looking at AI find it's too keen to be cool " and no match for consulting big brains. Plus: one EA speaks out about KPMG's mass redundancies....
Anthropic pits bot against bot in AI cyberwar with powerful new model
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (106+ words) AFR Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic is rolling out an AI model it says is so powerful in its cybersecurity capabilities that it can only be used by specialists in the industry, and has pulled big name rivals and customers into…...
The Middle East conflict will accelerate Asia's green pivot
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (103+ words) AFR The war is acting like an accidental carbon tax that is speeding up the region's high-stakes turn towards a future driven by renewable energy and semiconductors. The new economy is being built around critical minerals, artificial intelligence and the…...
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I asked Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about AI's "Chernobyl moment'
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (96+ words) AFR The tech giant boss believes in the promise of artificial intelligence to lift human welfare, while also warning of the dangers of the powerful new tools. Overshadowed by rolling events in the Middle East, for 24 hours last week Canberra…...
Artemis II flies by unseen far side of moon, beating distance record
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (93+ words) Artemis II flies by moon, beating Apollo 13s distance record'AFR Houston | With the moon now filling their windows, the Artemis II astronauts kicked off their lunar flyby on Monday (Tuesday AEST), taking in magnificent views of the far side never before…...
DJI brings its drone tech indoors and cleans up
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (67+ words) AFR What do you get when you cross a 1990s translucent i Mac with a drone, and a throw in splash of spy thriller for good measure? The DJI Romo robovac. You get the DJI Romo, the most surprising and interesting…...