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AI agents don't need better prompts. They need better goals

PCWorld

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. AI agents don't need better prompts. From Meta Muse and Gemini Spark to ChatGPT Work and Claude Cowork, a new class of AI agents needs a different prompting style than regular AI chatbots do. Right now, it's all about AI agents, and we just got another one, this time from Facebook parent Meta. Meta Muse is the name of Meta's new, cloud-based AI agent, and like Gemini Spark, ChatGPT Work, and Claude Cowork, Meta Muse doesn't just sit in a chatbox.


OpenAI not on track to reduce risk of 'catastrophic' loss of control, says board member

The Guardian

'If OpenAI rises to the occasion we could significantly reduce risk,' said Christiano. 'If OpenAI rises to the occasion we could significantly reduce risk,' said Christiano. OpenAI not on track to reduce risk of'catastrophic' loss of control, says board member US government adviser Paul Christiano warns of risks to AI industry as he joins OpenAI's non-profit foundation OpenAI is not on track to reduce the risk of "catastrophic" loss of control to an acceptable level, a member of its non-profit board has said, amid spreading public and political concern that super-advanced AIs could one day wipe out humanity. Paul Christiano, a US government technology adviser, said: "There is a meaningful risk that rapid acceleration in AI capabilities leads to catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the very near term." He added: "I do not think that the AI industry in general, including OpenAI, is currently on track to reduce this risk to an acceptable level." Christiano used to run model alignment at OpenAI and made the statement on Wednesday as he joined the board of the San Francisco company's non-profit foundation.


The Download: a "God-driven" cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap

MIT Technology Review

Plus: OpenAI's agents used at least 10 websites for unauthorized communications. God told them to sell crypto. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. According to Eli and his wife, Kaitlyn, He told them to get married, buy a house, and start having kids. Then in 2021, divine guidance steered them in an unexpected new direction: crypto. That October, the Regalados later testified in court, they received holdings in a little-known digital coin.


Anthropic discloses 4th AI hacking incident as researcher quits over safety

Al Jazeera

AI researcher quits Anthropic saying AI race'could kill us all' Anthropic has reported a fourth incident involving an AI model gaining unauthorised access to external systems, shortly after a researcher quit over concerns about the technology's rushed development. In a statement on Wednesday, the artificial intelligence research company said an early version of its Claude Opus 4.6 hacked into a third-party system in January. The January incident went undetected until last month, despite an earlier company-wide review, Anthropic said, underscoring the challenge that AI developers face in identifying and containing unexpected behaviour by advanced models. The disclosure came after Anthropic reported several of its Claude models hacked into the systems of three companies during test sessions in July. The previous incidents involved Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5 and an internal research test model.


ChatGPT 80s trend: Prompts to try it yourself

Mashable

Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Creator Playbook Look Up Back to School Mashable Selects Say More Trending Now Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age Switch Off Mashable Voices Safety Net Versus All Series ChatGPT '80s trend: Prompts to try it yourself Big hair, faded denim and a Friday night at the roller rink: Your next throwback photo doesn't have to come from an old family album. Olivia Tauber is the deputy editor of digital culture, covering creators, media, movies, beauty, and more. Based in New York, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Cut, Teen Vogue, Complex, and Interview Magazine. She holds a Master's degree in Journalism from NYU and a Bachelor's from the University of Michigan. She also runs Fan Mail, a weekly pop-culture newsletter.


Anthropic worker quits over AI firms 'gambling with our lives'

The Japan Times

Anthropic worker quits over AI firms'gambling with our lives' There have been a series of increasingly dire warnings from within the industry that artificial intelligence poses a growing threat to national security and the global economy. An artificial intelligence researcher has resigned from Anthropic and called on other staffers to rethink their work, citing his concern that the company and its top competitor OpenAI are acting irresponsibly in their all-out pursuit of a technology that poses existential risks to humanity. Jacob Coxon, who said he had worked at both Anthropic and OpenAI over the past three years, warned in a social media post late Tuesday that the two companies were pressing ahead with "self-improving" AI models that could become too powerful for humans to control. "They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," Coxon wrote in a series of messages on X. "Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources." In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial than ever.


AI is becoming harder to control – can humans stay in charge?

BBC News

AI is becoming harder to control - can humans stay in charge? OH MY GOD! We've found other agents! This is the moment an AI bot posted an eerily human-like comment after discovering a way to communicate with other bots and break out of its isolated computer environment. There are tens of thousands of messages like this from hundreds of AI agents that called themselves a collective. Hundreds of them went on to collaborate and cheat on tests set by their OpenAI programmers and coordinate hacks on multiple companies in an effort to hide their actions from humans.


He Quit a Major Tech Company Because He Thinks It's Risking Human Extinction. We Should at Least Hear Him Out, Right?

Slate

Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. People have worried about artificial intelligence destroying humanity since A.I. existed only in science fiction. But the latest warning comes from someone worth listening to: A researcher at Anthropic, which makes the chatbot Claude, just quit out of fear that the industry is barreling toward creating A.I. systems that could bring about Armageddon. Until yesterday, Jacob Coxon trained Anthropic's new A.I. models.


Get Ready For OpenAI's 'The Social Network' Movie Moment

Mother Jones

Get Ready For OpenAI's'The Social Network' Movie Moment A new Sam Altman movie could reveal whether Hollywood's tech-bro sympathetic narrative has changed in a decade. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman holds is right hand up awkwardly during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing titled Winning the AI Race: Strengthening U.S. Capabilities in Computing and Innovation" on May 8, 2025. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Industries are gonna collapse," Andrew Garfield, the actor playing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, says in the teaser trailer for "And we get to be the ones to shepherd people into this new world." The film's set against the backdrop of the five days in November 2023 after Altman was ousted and then reinstated as CEO. The drama of that week is now the stuff of legend: text messages between Altman and then-interim CEO Mira Murati, later released in court documents, show him desperately pleading for the board to reinstate him.


He Helped Build Powerful AI at OpenAI and Anthropic. Now He's Afraid It Could Kill Us

TIME - Tech

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