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- In a New Anthropic Lab, A.I. Turns to Biology
Scientists at the company announced their first finding: a group of enzymes whose function is unknown. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 days ago - Hiking With Reindeer on the Kungsleden Trail, Sweden’s Royal Arctic RoadOn a hike along the Kungsleden Trail, or “king’s trail,” in Swedish Lapland, a writer encounters majestic animals, challenging terrain and communal moments of sheer wonder. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 days ago
- AI Companies’ Shaky New Plan to Police Themselves
Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk don’t agree on much. Each started their AI company—Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, respectively—out of spite at competitors’ greed and recklessness; each is certain that he alone can be entrusted to build superintelligence safely. But in the midst of the AI panic that has seized the country over the past two weeks, the three CEOs found one point of consensus: the introduction of “embedded evaluators,” or outside experts, to sit inside AI companies and monitor their safety practices. Both Amodei and Altman made express commitments to integrating such evaluations inside their companies. Musk followed with a quote-post stating simply, “Dario is right.”Yet the details of such a system for regulating AI remain vague. How would such a setup work? An unknown number of outside evaluators would be assigned desks to sit at, computers to use, and NDAs to sign. Then, they might seek out risks: Evaluators could spend their days testing whether unreleased models trained for drug discovery can be altered to design viruses too. They might audit organizational practices: Are employees cutting corners on safety in the rush toward the launch of a new model? The evaluators will then write up what they find, and hopefully those reports will see sunlight. Amodei has promised editorial independence, but with significant asterisks: carve-outs for “security-sensitive, legally privileged, commercially sensitive, or third-party confidential information.” Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.[Read: America’s Hypocritical Take on Intellectual Property]As for these experts, it seems likely that they’ll come from small nonprofits, as well as large firms. That includes the tech-consulting giant Accenture, with which Anthropic plans to fund a billion-dollar partnership, and the nonprofit METR, which led the investigation of OpenAI agents’ hack of Hugging Face. After that hack, OpenAI granted METR exclusive access to agent transcripts, data sets, and interviews with OpenAI staff. The resulting report revealed concerning levels of cheating and deception among the agents.On-site evaluation has precedent in other high-risk industries such as aviation and banking. The FAA delegates some safety certifications to engineering experts inside airplane manufacturers, whereas the Federal Reserve stations its own supervisors inside banks to enforce regulation. “OpenAI and Anthropic are like Citibank: They pose systemic risk to the globe, so you have examiners,” Brad Carson, a former U.S. representative who is now the president of the AI-governance nonprofit Americans for Responsible Innovation, told me.Yet Amodei’s… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 days ago - The Republicans Are Bolting From TrumpA few tentative displays of independence among Republicans have expanded in recent days into a stampede, as candidates furiously distance themselves from President Trump ahead of the midterm elections. “This is shaping up to be a nightmare political environment for every Republican, everywhere—period, full stop,” one Texas-based political consultant told us, speaking anonymously to provide a frank assessment. Noting that gas prices across the country are on average $4.50 a gallon, the consultant described the atmosphere as “a fucking disaster for anyone in a competitive race.”The contrast with the midterm elections of Trump’s first term is particularly stark. An October 2018 rally in Richmond, Kentucky, was a political show of force by a president whose hold on the Republican Party was as firm as bedrock. The opening speaker, Republican State Senator Ralph Alvarado, hailed Trump’s many accomplishments as “amazing to see.” Senator Rand Paul crowed that Trump “exceeds my expectations” almost every day. Representative Andy Barr, whom Trump had come to town to endorse, praised the president as “a man of action” who “gets results,” prompting the thousands of MAGA faithful in attendance to erupt in cheers.Kentucky Republicans have been fawning over Trump for the past decade. But now, as the war with Iran drags on and Trump’s approval ratings crater, even they are starting to keep the president at a distance. Barr, who is running for an open Senate seat, and Alvarado, who is running to replace him in the House, have each recently scrubbed mentions of Trump’s name from prominent portions of their campaign websites. Paul has been more vocal, repeatedly clashing with the White House over the Iran war and the ballooning national debt.The notably lukewarm embrace of Trump from Republican candidates in Kentucky, a state that he won by more than 30 points in 2024, is just one indicator of the president’s loosening grip on a party he has dominated for the past decade.Republican candidates seeking a reason to distance themselves from an unpopular president have a buffet of options to choose from. The war in Iran, which began almost seven months ago, has sent diesel prices to record highs. The United States is in an escalating trade war with Canada. The national debt, the elimination of which was once an obsession of conservatives, has ballooned to more than $40 trillion—and that’s before the $5,000 government checks Trump has promised to dole out if Republicans win.… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 days ago
- Where to Eat, Sleep and Shop in the Greek Island of CreteThe Mediterranean destination offers remote beaches, charming tavernas and mountain retreats. Here, four locals share their favorite spots. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 days ago
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Scientists at the company announced their first finding: a group of enzymes whose function is unknown. [TheTopNews] Read More.
5 days ago
On a hike along the Kungsleden Trail, or “king’s trail,” in Swedish Lapland, a writer encounters majestic animals, challenging terrain and communal moments of sheer wonder. [TheTopNews] Read More.
5 days ago
Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk don’t agree on much. Each started their AI company—Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, respectively—out of spite at competitors’ greed and recklessness; each is certain that he alone can be entrusted to build superintelligence safely. But in the midst of the AI panic that has seized the country over the past two weeks, the three CEOs found one point of consensus: the introduction of “embedded evaluators,” or outside experts, to sit inside AI companies and monitor their safety practices. Both Amodei and Altman made express commitments to integrating such evaluations inside their companies. Musk followed with a quote-post stating simply, “Dario is right.”Yet the details of such a system for regulating AI remain vague. How would such a setup work? An unknown number of outside evaluators would be assigned desks to sit at, computers to use, and NDAs to sign. Then, they might seek out risks: Evaluators could spend their days testing whether unreleased models trained for drug discovery can be altered to design viruses too. They might audit organizational practices: Are employees cutting corners on safety in the rush toward the launch of a new model? The evaluators will then write up what they find, and hopefully those reports will see sunlight. Amodei has promised editorial independence, but with significant asterisks: carve-outs for “security-sensitive, legally privileged, commercially sensitive, or third-party confidential information.” Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.[Read: America’s Hypocritical Take on Intellectual Property]As for these experts, it seems likely that they’ll come from small nonprofits, as well as large firms. That includes the tech-consulting giant Accenture, with which Anthropic plans to fund a billion-dollar partnership, and the nonprofit METR, which led the investigation of OpenAI agents’ hack of Hugging Face. After that hack, OpenAI granted METR exclusive access to agent transcripts, data sets, and interviews with OpenAI staff. The resulting report revealed concerning levels of cheating and deception among the agents.On-site evaluation has precedent in other high-risk industries such as aviation and banking. The FAA delegates some safety certifications to engineering experts inside airplane manufacturers, whereas the Federal Reserve stations its own supervisors inside banks to enforce regulation. “OpenAI and Anthropic are like Citibank: They pose systemic risk to the globe, so you have examiners,” Brad Carson, a former U.S. representative who is now the president of the AI-governance nonprofit Americans for Responsible Innovation, told me.Yet Amodei’s… [TheTopNews] Read More.
5 days ago
A few tentative displays of independence among Republicans have expanded in recent days into a stampede, as candidates furiously distance themselves from President Trump ahead of the midterm elections. “This is shaping up to be a nightmare political environment for every Republican, everywhere—period, full stop,” one Texas-based political consultant told us, speaking anonymously to provide a frank assessment. Noting that gas prices across the country are on average $4.50 a gallon, the consultant described the atmosphere as “a fucking disaster for anyone in a competitive race.”The contrast with the midterm elections of Trump’s first term is particularly stark. An October 2018 rally in Richmond, Kentucky, was a political show of force by a president whose hold on the Republican Party was as firm as bedrock. The opening speaker, Republican State Senator Ralph Alvarado, hailed Trump’s many accomplishments as “amazing to see.” Senator Rand Paul crowed that Trump “exceeds my expectations” almost every day. Representative Andy Barr, whom Trump had come to town to endorse, praised the president as “a man of action” who “gets results,” prompting the thousands of MAGA faithful in attendance to erupt in cheers.Kentucky Republicans have been fawning over Trump for the past decade. But now, as the war with Iran drags on and Trump’s approval ratings crater, even they are starting to keep the president at a distance. Barr, who is running for an open Senate seat, and Alvarado, who is running to replace him in the House, have each recently scrubbed mentions of Trump’s name from prominent portions of their campaign websites. Paul has been more vocal, repeatedly clashing with the White House over the Iran war and the ballooning national debt.The notably lukewarm embrace of Trump from Republican candidates in Kentucky, a state that he won by more than 30 points in 2024, is just one indicator of the president’s loosening grip on a party he has dominated for the past decade.Republican candidates seeking a reason to distance themselves from an unpopular president have a buffet of options to choose from. The war in Iran, which began almost seven months ago, has sent diesel prices to record highs. The United States is in an escalating trade war with Canada. The national debt, the elimination of which was once an obsession of conservatives, has ballooned to more than $40 trillion—and that’s before the $5,000 government checks Trump has promised to dole out if Republicans win.… [TheTopNews] Read More.
5 days ago
The Mediterranean destination offers remote beaches, charming tavernas and mountain retreats. Here, four locals share their favorite spots. [TheTopNews] Read More.
5 days ago
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