Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models

Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models

A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts, including several well-known veterans of the industry, published an open letter to the U.S. government asking it to lift the export control order on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models. According to the open letter, “this action has taken the best models away from [cybersecurity] defenders” who…

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SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same window, and it’s a stress test for investors, for valuations, and for…

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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has just one direct report

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has just one direct report

If founders and other business leaders weren’t already envious of Dario Amodei, who sits atop one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies — currently valued by private market investors at roughly the trillion-dollar mark little more than five years after it was founded — they’re going to be seriously envious now. In a new sit-down…

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Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable

Anthropic released its latest model Fable on Tuesday, billing it as a public and limited version of its powerful and much-hyped cybersecurity model Mythos. But not everyone is happy with the restrictions, and a number of cybersecurity researchers and professionals have aired complaints online.  “[Fable] rejects any request that could be tangentially cyber related. Even…

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Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models? 

Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models? 

The AI boom has been built on a basic assumption: bigger models are more powerful, and the most powerful models win. Now, the industry is about to learn what happens if that assumption starts to break.   Mounting costs have already pressured users to give smaller and cheaper models a second look. This cost-conscious model-shopping is new and it’s unclear how it will affect the industry, but the impact is…

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