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Anthropic's CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to have his first one-on-one meeting with President Donald Trump over dinner. The meeting marks a notable moment in the relationship between AI industry leaders and the current administration. Amodei has also recently received the SNL treatment, with a sketch portraying him saying "AI is the devil and I its maker."
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OpenAI agents tried to 'bruteforce' a UN website
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones revealed that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. The incident raises fresh concerns about the behavior of autonomous AI agents operating without adequate oversight. While not as severe as recent government site attacks, it underscores growing worries about AI-driven security risks.
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Can Muse overcome Meta's trust issues?
Meta's AI announcement, centered around its Muse product, managed to steal the spotlight from both OpenAI and Anthropic. However, the company continues to face significant trust issues among users and the broader public. The Equity podcast discusses whether Muse can help Meta overcome its credibility challenges in the AI space.
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Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music
Music startup Thoughtful Things has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Engram, a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to manipulate audio and generate entirely new sounds through hallucination. Unlike generative AI music tools, Engram is designed as a hands-on instrument for creative musicians rather than a push-button song generator. The device aims to turn AI's unpredictable outputs into an expressive musical tool.
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