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Hundreds of protestors descended on Palantir’s unmarked office building in downtown Manhattan over the weekend. Organized by the grassroots AIDS group ACT UP New York, they rallied at the New York AIDS memorial before marching on the surveillance company’s offices. According to photos published by the Advocate, protestors came dressed in flashy outfits and brandishing signs with hardline slogans. “Palantir: ICE and war enabler and profiteer,” read one.

That protest organizers are staging die-ins to draw attention to Palantir — one of the largest private surveillance companies in the history of the US — is telling. Palantir is the architect of the Maven Smart System, a military AI used by the Pentagon to select targets for annihilation. The system combines satellite data, drone imaging, and other more conventional forms of military intelligence to create an all-in-one solution for US military officers to carry out attacks from afar. Read more

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Anthropic inadvertently revealed details of its most powerful AI model to date, "Claude Mythos," internally branded under a new "Capybara" tier. The model, which is described as a "step change" above Opus in capability and price, boasts dramatically higher scores in coding, academic reasoning, and cybersecurity. The leak occurred due to a misconfiguration in Anthropic's content management system, exposing unpublished internal assets and a full draft launch blog. Its existence and capabilities were confirmed by Anthropic after security researchers discovered the data.

Sources: The Daily Bite by Snack Prompt, The Rundown AI, The Neuron

OpenAI has reportedly shut down its Sora video generation tool, citing massive compute costs that were burning $1 million a day. This decision also led to the quiet collapse of a $1 billion deal with Disney, which OpenAI reversed. The move is being seen by some as the first significant crack in OpenAI's previously unblemished trajectory, highlighting the intense resource demands of advanced AI development.

Sources: The Daily Bite by Snack Prompt, The Neuron, Mindstream

A Wall Street Journal report shed light on the ongoing "personal war" and "shouting match" that initially led to the creation of Anthropic, a prominent competitor to OpenAI. The feud continues to shape the landscape of frontier AI development, with both companies vying for talent and enterprise partnerships.

Sources: The Rundown AI, The Neuron

Legal losses are reportedly beginning to impact Meta's strategic plans and growth in the artificial intelligence sector. While specific cases were not detailed, these setbacks are hindering the social media giant's aggressive push into AI development and deployment.

Sources: The Daily Bite by Snack Prompt

Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, has made a bold statement asserting that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has already arrived. This declaration from a key figure in the AI hardware industry sparks significant debate and discussion about the current state and future trajectory of AI capabilities.

Sources: TAAFT - There's An AI For That

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