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But Dr Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute and a former OpenAI safety engineer, is sceptical. She notes Anthropic provides no comparison with existing automated security tools, nor any false-positive rates. “It also serves their ‘safety first’ image, as they’re able to justify the lack of public release, even a limited one for independent evaluation, as a public service – when it simply obscures experts’ abilities to independently validate their The post ‘Safety first’ puts Anthropic ahead in game of AI spin appeared first on AI Now Institute.

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The release of MiniMax M2.7 adds enhancements to the popular MiniMax M2.5 model, built for agentic harnesses,... The release of MiniMax M2.7 adds enhancements to the popular MiniMax M2.5 model, built for agentic harnesses, and other complex use cases in fields such as reasoning, ML research workflows, software, engineering, and office work. The open weights release of MiniMax M2.7 is now available through NVIDIA and across the open source inference ecosystem. The MiniMax M2 series is a sparse mixture-of… Source

Digital workforces are everywhere you go. Before you’ve even entered your first meeting of the day, artificial intelligence can provide you with a summary of your inbox, check your calendar and even submit an expense report on your behalf. This isn’t a future vision; it’s today’s operating reality. AI agents are already embedded into daily lives […] The post Digital employees are here: What now? appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

Gemma 4 31B's 256K context window is real. So is the VRAM bill that comes with it.

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Tech leaders want you to believe that AI is the key to a new golden age. The reality looks more like a bold, government-backed heist. The post The Great AI Grift appeared first on AI Now Institute.

Threat actors breached the telehealth brand, and now they may know patients' personal health details. What could they do with that information?

These are the fundamental detection model shifts cybersecurity teams need to make to keep up with the rising number of credential-based attacks.