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Plus: Almost $2.5 trillion has been wiped off tech stocks. I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future. When I saw an X post about a new humanoid-robot cleaning service in San Francisco, I immediately signed up for the waitlist. I wanted my apartment to feel like, even if just for an hour. The device that arrived at my building belongs to Tau Robotics, a local startup.

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Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. State Sen. Scott Wiener to succeed Pelosi in San Francisco House seat, as Chan concedes State Sen. Scott Wiener speaks with supporters at his primary election night party at his San Francisco campaign headquarters on June 2. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search.

A man described as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national employed as an OpenAI engineer, looks behind a TV where a recording device had been placed at a conference room in OpenAI offices, in a still image from surveillance video included in a charging document after U.S. federal agents arrested and charged him with installing a hidden audio recording device, in San Francisco on Oct. 5. | U.S. Department of Justice / via REUTERS SAN FRANCISCO - When OpenAI disclosed in October that it found a recording device planted in an executive conference room, a number of former employees had the same reaction -- they were not surprised. Even before OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022, some company staffers raised concerns internally about its security practices, according to five people familiar with the matter. Employees shared their concerns with top OpenAI leaders and the board of directors, the people said, adding that some staffers came away from those interactions concluding that management was more focused on keeping pace with competitors like Google and Anthropic than on security. These workers argued that OpenAI's controls were so lax that outsiders, including foreign governments, could obtain sensitive information about the artificial intelligence lab's technology with relative ease, the people said. For example, anybody at OpenAI who could access its code could see the technical details underlying many company projects.

Shock, vindication, regret: Scientists react to AI roiling life's work OpenAI and Anthropic each said on Monday that one of their AI models had disproved the exponential time hypothesis. San Francisco - For decades, three computer scientists built their careers around an idea about the limits of what computers can do. Artificial intelligence may now have shown it to be wrong: OpenAI and Anthropic each said on Monday that one of their AI models had disproved the "exponential time hypothesis" (ETH). The hypothesis holds that some problems are so hard that computers can solve them only by trying nearly every possible answer. Hundreds of studies in computer science and biology rely on it.

These firms you've never heard of are feeding fears the AI bubble could burst A once-obscure corner of the AI ecosystem finds itself in the spotlight - and investors don't all like what they see. Names like CoreWeave and Nebius are familiar to the tech set in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. These data centre companies, known as neocloud firms, run large warehouses packed with expensive computers, which they lease to major AI developers like Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta. Many question whether neocloud firms are financially sound and what their recent stumbles tell us about the state of the AI economy. Analysts at Gartner predict by 2030, 80% of neocloud firms will cease independent operations, while Forrester's experts expect at least three of them to be imminently acquired as finances get shaky.

In the San Francisco tech scene, agents have quickly become a new status symbol. In the San Francisco tech scene, agents have quickly become a new status symbol. What is it like to work when your co-workers are AI agents? O n an average workday, Dhruv Amin chats with dozens of colleagues to get things done at his AI startup Anything. He might ask Gwen, his executive assistant, to schedule a meeting, then troubleshoot a technical problem with Cody, his coding partner.

Anthropic's IPO filing shows explosive growth, risks and staggering costs Share Anthropic's IPO filing shows explosive growth, risks and staggering costs on social media Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has filed papers for what could be the biggest ever initial public offering (IPO) of stock, even as its top executive warns that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. The filing on Monday sets up the San Francisco company for a Wall Street debut next month, potentially eclipsing the SpaceX initial public offering in June that raised a record $86bn. An IPO could provide Anthropic with enormous resources to accelerate its expansion. The amount the company ultimately raises remains uncertain, as does its final valuation and offering price. But even at lower estimates, it would turn the five-year-old startup into one of the world's most valuable companies and potentially boost the wealth of Amodei and his sister and cofounder, Daniela, by billions of dollars.

Anthropic has publicly filed for a stock market listing, one of the largest debuts in history. The company's float on the US market is likely to be a high-water mark in the multitrillion-dollar AI boom and a test of its financial viability. Analysts and investors have valued the San Francisco-based company, founded in 2021, at more than $1.5tn. The company, which will will list under the symbol ANT, confidentially filed with US financial regulators for an initial public offering in June. "We believe AI is one of the most consequential technologies in human history," the company's investor prospectus reads.