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Anthropic expands text watermarking to older Claude versions beginning November 3
Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Safety Net Look Up Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Mashable @Home In My Bag Versus Trending Now Say More Creator Playbook Mashable Selects Getting Technical with Mashable All Series This isn't the first time Anthropic has issued a watermark, but the latest iteration will apply to Mythos 5, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6. As we first reported in early August, Anthropic has bowed to demands from EU legislators that AI-generated text carry a hidden watermark, to help eventually distinguish between human-and AI-generated content. The initial watermark rollout only applied to the latest and greatest versions of Claude, but on Friday Anthropic alerted its users that an expansion of the watermark would soon roll out to Claude Mythos 5, Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6, starting on November 3. According to the AI giant, it will be the same watermarking technology already in use in Opus 5.5, based on an imperceptible pattern in word choice that won't change the accuracy or readability of its output, or contain any identifying information about the user or organization working with Claude. Sign up for Mashable's weekly Light Speed newsletter.
5 safety practices to know before vibe coding
Here's what beginners need to know to vibe code securely. The term vibe coding has spread across the tech world since early last year, after OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy wrote about his experience of generating code by just talking to an AI model without really thinking about the code itself. I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works, he wrote in the X post that sparked the term. In the tech industry, vibe coding is now the new normal. While it's a powerful way to move faster with less resources, generating code with AI that you don't fully understand or haven't reviewed can pose serious security risks to yourself, your devices and anyone using your app.
OpenAI adds stricter limits for teens asking about firearms
The company said these tighter restrictions apply even if the question asked "appears harmless." OpenAI is clamping down on weapons-related information teens can get from ChatGPT, even if their question appears harmless, the company announced in its latest post . OpenAI noted that it already has policies in place that prevent ChatGPT from helping users carry out violent acts or teens getting their hands on weapons. To further limit those scenarios, OpenAI said it's going to restrict practical information about weapons and security systems that could be misused to facilitate violence, even when there's no sign of violent intent with its teen users. The AI giant noted that teens will still be able to use ChatGPT when it comes to preventing or de-escalating violence, seeking support and connecting with a trusted adult.
Microsoft AI beats doctors in simulated diagnosis test
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The Year Math Changed Forever
A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world. "I have had the strangest week ever in my life," Tao said, after OpenAI announced the solution to yet another problem. A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. This was a line often invoked by the Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdลs, who was fuelled by coffee and amphetamines, slept little, travelled near-constantly, never married or had children, and published almost fifteen hundred papers in his lifetime, in collaboration with hundreds of other mathematicians. But Erdลs was, in most ways, not machinelike. He called lecturing in mathematics "preaching," woke friends at odd hours by asking, "Is your brain open?," wore only silk underclothing on account of his sensitive skin, and claimed not to have learned how to butter toast until he was twenty-one. He gave away most of his earnings to charitable causes and to young mathematicians in need of funds for their education, and he offered bounties (sometimes ten dollars, sometimes a thousand) for solutions to mathematical problems he'd proposed. It has been said that, even above his remarkable contributions to the mathematical literature, he helped the discipline most profoundly by turning people who might otherwise have become hedge-fund managers or F.B.I. agents or lost souls into mathematicians. When he died, in 1996, at the age of eighty-three, he left behind about a thousand problems. Solving an Erdลs problem is a great honor, as is having a low "Erdลs number," a term that describes how many degrees of separation one is from having published work with him. Terence Tao was ten years old when Erdลs visited his home town of Adelaide, Australia, in 1985. Erdลs loved children and called them epsilons. Tao, a mathematics prodigy, had started taking college-level courses at age nine. Erdลs posed a problem for him and Tao to work on together. A photograph of their meeting, taken by Tao's mother (who had been a math teacher before having kids), shows the young mathematician and the old one deep in thought, hands at chins, looking at the notepad before them.
These firms you've never heard of are feeding fears the AI bubble could burst
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.
Human vs ChatGPT NFL Week 8 betting picks: Human answers with 4-1 week, looks to keep rolling
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Christian group touts 'ethical' tech features as concerns over out-of-control AI tools persist
The mission of the Florida-based organization, founded by the late Christian theologian R.C. Sproul, is to proclaim, teach and defend the holiness of God in all its fullness to as many people as possible. Part of accomplishing that mission was building an app that the organization calls Grow. It's dedicated to helping Christians to better understand the Bible and theology and to go deeper in their faith, put down roots, if you will, Larson said of the new tool. And so this app has 50 years of teaching in it from more than 800 different teachers, of course, grounded in Dr. R.C. Sproul's lifetime of teaching. The app draws from a library of tens of thousands of pieces of content help users in their faith journey looking to obtain answers to critical questions. Inside Grow is an intelligent answer assistant which can answer questions from users from a faith-based perspective. But building an Grow for Christian users required putting a great deal of thought into the ethics of the model, Larson explained.
Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games
Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Safety Net Look Up Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Mashable @Home In My Bag Versus Trending Now Say More Creator Playbook Mashable Selects Getting Technical with Mashable All Series The restrictions are so broad that they're even hurting legitimate game developers and preventing basic troubleshooting tasks. According to reporting from, Anthropic's Claude AI has quietly started restricting the kinds of work it will do, including modding, decompiling, or reverse-engineering video game code. And though there has as yet been no official announcement about, the reason is still pretty obvious. The video game community has been in the news lately, first because of the GTA6 leaks that went mega-viral and spurred Take-Two Interactive into getting subpoenas against both Microsoft and Discord in the hopes of finding the responsible parties, and next because the hacking and modding community discovered how much easier AI makes their job. SEE ALSO: Claude's new smart reports tell bosses when workers are'off-topic' First, game decompilers went into overdrive, playing around with the source code of multiple different video games to, for example, put Nintendo's Mario inside the dark gothic world of, or import Spider-Man into the game, seamlessly blending the mechanics of one character into the world of another.
Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to 'Autodox' Victims
Named "Volta-Autodoxer," the recently uncovered malware uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims, from login credentials and credit card numbers to Discord sessions and UberEats receipts. Welcome to Kernel Panic, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. New research shared exclusively with Kernel Panic shows that hackers have started adding AI functionality into a new strain of infostealer malware, making it possible for the system to automatically profile victims and quickly surface the highest value targets and their information. Dubbed "Volta-Autodoxer" because of how the malware refers to itself internally, the finding by Cisco Talos researchers sheds light on the ways that commercial LLMs are being used to augment and enhance the capabilities of established types of malware.