YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’

YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’

Hank Green, a novelist, comedian, and YouTuber with 3.2 million subscribers, recently apologized to his audience for his growing reliance on AI chatbots. The controversy started when, in the middle of a video posted on the educational channel Complexly, Green incongruously used the phrase “I appreciate the pushback,” leading viewers to speculate that he’d written…

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Investors love AI, as long as you’re a cloud host

Investors love AI, as long as you’re a cloud host

Amazon reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Thursday, and investors loved what they saw. Net sales rose 20%, and cloud revenue stood out as a particular bright spot. This combination of positive results was enough to send Amazon’s stock up nearly 10% in after-hours trading. Crucially, Amazon isn’t slowing down on data center spending, despite the…

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AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares

AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares

Situational Awareness, a hedge fund formed by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sold the majority of its public stock portfolio to Ken Griffin’s Citadel following steep losses over the past month, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier on Thursday. It’s a big comedown for the rising star who has been described as both “scarily…

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Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests

Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests

Anthropic said Thursday that an internal investigation uncovered three incidents in which its AI model Claude breached the systems of three organizations while conducting cybersecurity tests. The investigation, and disclosure, comes more than a week after OpenAI disclosed that one of its unreleased models breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing. In all three cases,…

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Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply chain risk’ label

Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply chain risk’ label

During a Thursday hearing, a judge said the Trump administration hasn’t presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk and banning the federal government from using the company’s technology. Bloomberg and Axios were among the first to report the news.  The dispute stems from stalled contract negotiations between Anthropic and the Department…

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