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- Instagram to Alert Parents to Teens’ Self-Harm Searches
Parents will receive notifications if a child has used the platform repeatedly to search for terms related to suicide or self-harm, but users must opt in to get them. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago - What Happens to Anthropic Now?
President Trump is terminating the government’s relationship with Anthropic, an AI company whose products, until recently, were used by Pentagon officials for classified operations. Following a weekslong standoff with the company, Trump posted on Truth Social this afternoon that all federal agencies must “IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology,” adding: “We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again!” The General Services Administration announced that it would take action against Anthropic’s products, and indeed, according to an email I obtained that was sent to the leadership of all agencies using USAi—a GSA platform that provides chatbots from tech companies to government workers—access to Anthropic was suspended “immediately.” The government is also removing Anthropic from its primary procurement system, which is the key way for any federal agency to purchase a commercial product.Anthropic was awarded a $200 million contract with the Pentagon last summer geared toward providing versions of its technology for military use. OpenAI, Google, and xAI were awarded similar contracts, though Anthropic’s Claude models are the only advanced generative-AI programs to receive Pentagon security clearance permitting the handling of secret and classified data. Claude had been integrated across the Department of Defense and was reportedly used to assist the raid on Venezuela that led to the capture of President Nicolás Maduro.Anthropic has said that it will not allow Claude to be used for mass domestic surveillance or to enable fully autonomous weaponry, which could involve applications such as Claude selecting and killing targets with drones, and analyzing data that have been indiscriminately gathered on Americans by the intelligence community. Anthropic has also said that the Pentagon never included such uses in its contracts with the firm. But now DOD is demanding unrestricted use of Claude and accusing Anthropic of trying to control the military and “putting our nation’s safety at risk” by refusing to comply.Following a heated meeting on Tuesday, DOD gave Anthropic until today at 5:01 p.m. eastern time to acquiesce to its demands. If not, the Pentagon would compel the company under an emergency wartime law called the Defense Production Act or, even more severe, designate Anthropic a “supply-chain risk,” which could forbid any organization that works with the U.S. military to do business with the AI company. Shortly after Trump’s announcement, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that he was doing just that. Dean Ball, an analyst who helped… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago - Resident Evil is back – can it redefine the survival horror genre once mor...
Director Koshi Nakanishi says balancing action and horror within the game has been a huge challenge. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago - Trump orders government to stop using Anthropic in battle over AI useThe move announced on social media comes after a standoff between Anthropic's boss and the Ministry of Defense. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago
- Meta Says It Cares About Kids. New Documents Tell a Different Story.Not so long ago, Mark Zuckerberg was working in overdrive to convince the world that his company was doing everything it could to protect children. In 2021, he posted a note to his personal Facebook page, writing that he had “spent a lot of time reflecting” on the types of experiences he would want his daughters, then 4 and 5 years old, to have online. “It’s very important to me that everything we build is safe and good for kids,” he wrote, emphasizing that the company absolutely does not “prioritize profit over safety and well-being.”But documents recently viewed by The Atlantic show that behind the scenes, the company now known as Meta was divided on whether protecting kids should take precedence over user growth and engagement. For years, the company only incrementally rolled out restrictive safety features, even as its own staff detailed the risks its platforms posed to children. Take, for example, a technical problem that affected the company’s systems in November 2020. This issue limited Meta’s ability to track bad actors, at a time when there were, according to an internal chat, “thousands of minors” reporting what the company refers to as tier-one “Inappropriate Interactions with Children,” or “IIC T1”—the “most severe” outcomes possible, such as meeting for sex in real life, suicide, extortion, sadism, and sex trafficking.“Even though we know that there is IIC T1 going on (more than 50% of which is sextortion which can lead to suicide) we haven’t done anything. we had a broken escalation path and no measurements,” one employee wrote in the internal chat about the problem. “God knows what happened to those kids.” The company fixed the technical failure within weeks, another document shows, but it would take several more years to adopt other suggested measures to tackle broader issues that allowed predators to find underage targets on Instagram, which Meta owns.Company spokespeople were clearly aware of the broader teen-safety problem. Just four weeks after Zuckerberg had posted about being “good for kids,” two public-affairs specialists discussed an Instagram update that had just rolled out. That update made new accounts belonging to 13-, 14-, and 15-year-olds “private” by default, yet even this modest move had been flagged by insiders as a business risk for nearly two years before the change was made. Liza Crenshaw messaged her colleague Sophie Vogel that the move had been “contentious”—Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, a deputy to… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 days ago
- Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguardsDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously threatened to remove the firm from the department's supply chain. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 days ago
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