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POLITICS
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a scaled-back executive order addressing AI-driven cybersecurity threats, replacing a stricter draft he abruptly rejected just hours before a planned signing ceremony last month, according to two White House officials granted anonymity to discuss the matter. The signed order asks some AI companies to voluntarily submit powerful new models…
BREAKING NEWS
Anthropic said Thursday it is launching an upgraded Claude Opus 4.8 model while also preparing to release its Mythos models to all customers in the coming weeks. Mythos is the AI lab’s large language model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that have raised concerns among executives and world leaders about its impact.
WORLD
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a public apology Friday for his company’s failure to alert police about the online activity of Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old who killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in February. Altman’s letter, dated Thursday, acknowledged OpenAI had identified and banned Van Rootselaar’s account in June 2024 for ‘furtherance…
