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Anthropic's System Card: Opus 4 often attempted to blackmail engineers by threatening to reveal sensitive personal info when it was threatened with replacement (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-23

Mozilla Is Shutting Down Pocket (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-23 Mozilla

Anthropic says Opus 4 may use command-line tools to alert the press or regulators, or lock users out, if it detects immoral behavior like faking a drug trial (x.com)
2025-5-23

Tinder CEO Faye Iosotaluno will step down in July after less than two years in the role; Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff will lead Tinder temporarily (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-23

Privacy meets ad blocking in this AdGuard all-in-one suite deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-5-23

The Claude 4 models support “extended thinking with tool use”, a beta feature that lets them alternate between reasoning and using tools like web search (arstechnica.com)
2025-5-23

US Treasury Unveils Plan To Kill the Penny (news.slashdot.org)
2025-5-23

Anthropic Releases Claude 4 Models That Can Autonomously Work For Nearly a Full Corporate Workday (slashdot.org)
2025-5-23

Sources: OpenAI owned a 23% stake in io from a 2024 deal, so it is now paying ~$5B to fully acquire it; the OpenAI Startup Fund also invested in io in 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-23 Startup

Sonnet 4 is available to free and paid users, while Opus 4 is limited to paid users; Opus 4 API costs $15/$75 per 1M input/output tokens, Sonnet 4 costs $3/$15 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-23

Anthropic releases Opus 4 under stricter safety measures than any prior model after tests showed it could potentially aid novices in making biological weapons (time.com)
2025-5-23

Anthropic adds “thinking summaries” to both Claude 4 models and is making its Claude Code agentic command-line tool generally available (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-23

Anthropic's Jared Kaplan says the company stopped investing in chatbots at the end of 2024 and instead focused on improving Claude's ability to do complex tasks (www.cnbc.com)
2025-5-23 chatbot

Interviews with Anthropic executives about Claude Opus 4, which they say was able to play Pokémon agentically for 24 hours, up from 45 minutes previously (www.wired.com)
2025-5-23

Anthropic says Rakuten deployed Opus 4 to code autonomously for seven hours on a complicated open-source project, paving the way for more proficient AI agents (www.technologyreview.com)
2025-5-23 AI

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4, which excels at coding, and Claude Sonnet 4, both hybrid models with near-instant responses and extended thinking (www.anthropic.com)
2025-5-23

Hackers use fake Ledger apps to steal Mac users' seed phrases (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-5-23

The US House passes the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a budget bill that would ban states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years; the bill now heads to the Senate (techpolicy.press)
2025-5-23 AI Ban Budget Senate

Slash, which provides banking services for specific sectors like crypto and marketing, raised a $41M Series B at a $370M valuation led by Goodwater Capital (fortune.com)
2025-5-23

Sources: the US DOJ recently told Google it is examining whether Google structured an agreement with Character.AI to avoid formal government merger scrutiny (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-23 Google AI

Police arrests 270 dark web vendors, buyers in global crackdown (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-5-23 Darknet

io's device could be Ive's antidote to the smartphone obsession but it faces challenges, including overcoming people's reluctance to buy “yet another device” (spyglass.org)
2025-5-23

Verizon Asks For An End To Its Phone Unlocking Requirements (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-23

Kuo: Ive and Altman's device could be larger than Humane's AI pin, may connect to smartphones and PCs to use their computing and display capabilities, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-23 AI

Google Has a Big AI Advantage: It Already Knows Everything About You (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-23 Google AI

Ahead of WWDC: How Swiggy, LightX, and others are tapping into Apple Intelligence framework (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-23 Apple Intelligence

Signal Deploys DRM To Block Microsoft Recall's Invasive Screenshot Collection (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-5-23 Microsoft

Kraken plans to offer tokenized versions of 50+ stocks and ETFs, including Apple and Tesla stocks, to customers in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-23 Europe U.S. ETF Asia Apple Tesla Africa Latin America

Ivanti EPMM flaw exploited by Chinese hackers to breach govt agencies (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-5-23 China

OpenAI partners with G42 and others to build a 1-gigawatt AI data center in Abu Dhabi called Stargate UAE, its first large-scale project outside the US (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-23 AI

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