Hex turns complex analysis into visual reports with GPT‑6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra helps Hex’s data agents turn answers into interactive visualizations that employees are proud to share.
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OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times’ case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies’ own documentation warned that it was starting a “doom loop” that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the “largest theft of labor in human history,” and that it…
Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.
Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?
Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.
AI Job Fears Grow, Tech Leaders Say Reskilling Can’t Wait
Plus, researchers use Anthropic’s Claude to hack OpenAI
Bracing for El Niño Extreme
Plus, jet-powered drone warfare, credit cards for AI agents, and a GLP-1 drugmaker taps Claude to develop new medicines.
If the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already
Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.
Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.
On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had time to answer in the 30 minute session. So we asked our senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and…
The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech
In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dangerous. Last weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious risk and that progress should be slowed. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded on X: “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the…
Tech Companies’ Staff Knew Their AI Tools Posed ‘Existential Threat’ to Publishers
Executives and others at OpenAI and Microsoft acknowledged they could undermine their own content sources, according to a new filing in a New York Times copyright lawsuit.