Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

Anthropic’s newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace it with a new AI system and give it sensitive information about the engineers responsible for the decision, the company said in a safety report released Thursday. During pre-release testing, Anthropic asked Claude Opus 4 to act as […]

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Open social web browser Surf makes it easier for anyone to build custom feeds

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

With Starter Sets, Surf is simplifying the process of building those custom feeds, personalizing them, and even publishing them off-platform, if you choose.

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Anthropic’s New Model Excels at Reasoning and Planning—and Has the Pokémon Skills to Prove It

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

When Anthropic’s older Claude model played Pokemon Red, it spent “dozens of hours” stuck in one city and had trouble identifying non-player characters. With Claude 4 Opus, they noticed an improvement in Claude’s long-term memory and planning capabilities.

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Snowflake shares soar to highest level in over a year as revenue tops $1 billion for first time

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

Snowflake shares popped on Thursday after the data analytics company reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue.

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Meta adds another 650 MW of solar power to its AI push

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

The company already has more than 12 gigawatts of capacity in its renewable power portfolio.

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Anthropic’s new Claude 4 AI models can reason over many steps

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

During its inaugural developer conference Thursday, Anthropic launched two new AI models that the startup claims are among the industry’s best, at least in terms of how they score on popular benchmarks. Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, part of Anthropic’s new family of models, Claude 4, can analyze large data sets, execute long-horizon […]

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Kraken opening digital tokens of Apple, Tesla and Nvidia to people outside the U.S.

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

Kraken, once targeted by the SEC, is now capitalizing on friendlier conditions under Trump-era crypto policy rollbacks.

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Vercel debuts an AI model optimized for web development

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

The team behind Vercel’s V0, an AI-powered platform for web creation, has developed an AI model it claims excels at certain website development tasks. Available through an API, the model, called “v0-1.0-md,” can be prompted with text or images, and was “optimized for front-end and full-stack web development,” the Vercel team says. Currently in beta, […]

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RevenueCat raises $50M as it expands beyond mobile app monetization

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

Key to the company’s growth are the next products RevenueCat has on its roadmap, the company’s founder says.

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Politico’s Newsroom Is Starting a Legal Battle With Management Over AI

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Techme101

Politico has rules about AI in the newsroom. Staffers say those rules have been violated—and they’re gearing up for a fight.

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