SpaceX agrees to six-month Colossus AI lease with Anthropic

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.8 with stronger coding tools while teasing broader Mythos access in the coming weeks. The post Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 4.8 and teases broader Mythos release in coming weeks appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Dr Susan Oman on a campaign that is designed to raise public awareness of AI Your editorial on Pope Leo XIV’s call to centre human dignity in AI debate makes an important argument (The Guardian view on the Pope and Claude: Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is right to put humanity first, 25 May). While governments, faith leaders and tech bosses debate the future of AI, one group is consistently left out of the conversation: the public, the very people whose lives the technology is shaping. Last week, I gave evidence on AI sovereignty to the all-party parliamentary group on AI that aligns with Pope Leo’s position. I argued that AI sovereignty was a series of deeply human and societal questions that exceed technical, material and macroeconomic concerns. I showed that public concern about AI has risen by 10% in two years, and that 91% believe fairness should be prioritised over economic gain. Yet there is no national programme to help the public understand, trust or have a say in AI. Continue r

Here’s why Anthropic and OpenAI are on board with Illinois safety testing.

The new Opus model comes with a tool called Dynamic Workflows, for coordinating swarms of subagents.

The new system, called Opus 4.8, tops industry standard benchmarks in areas related to computer programming.

Anthropic is releasing Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, and the company is touting the model's "honesty." According to Anthropic, it trains "all [its] models to be honest - for instance, to avoid making claims that they can't support." But it notes that "a general problem with AI models is that they sometimes jump to conclusions, confidently presenting their work as making progress despite thin evidence." The AI lab claims that early testers have found that Opus 4.8 "is more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims." In the company's evaluations, Opus 4.8 is "around 4x less likely than its predeces … Read the full story at The Verge.

We still need to learn many things about the basic business model of frontier models

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