NYTIMES (Eli Tan) - Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I.
Companies like AT&T are increasingly using cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over expensive ones from Anthropic and OpenAI.
NYTIMES (Kalley Huang, Lauren Hirsch and Kate Conger) - Nvidia Buys Hugging Face in $12.9 Billion Deal
The acquisition of the start-up is an indication of Nvidia’s growing role as Silicon Valley’s central banker and its emphasis on open-source technology.
NYTIMES (Steve Lohr and Meaghan Tobin) - China Sees Opportunity in America’s Recent A.I. Security Scares
A leading Chinese A.I. start-up released its latest model and made the case that China’s embrace of open software is safer than Silicon Valley’s closed approach.
DAILYCALLER (Dylan Kresak) - Nvidia Reportedly Making $13,000,000,000 Purchase Of Open-Source AI’s Main Hub Hugging Face
‘fighting concentration of power’
NYTIMES (Cade Metz) - A Chinese A.I. Lab May Test the World’s Cybersecurity With a Model
In July, an unreleased OpenAI model went rogue and demonstrated remarkable hacking abilities. This week, a lab called Z.ai will release a similarly powerful system to everyone.
NYTIMES (Kate Conger) - After Hugging Face Was Attacked By A.I. Agents, It Embarked on a Crusade
Hugging Face, a start-up that was breached by rogue bots from OpenAI, is using the hack to push for openness in A.I. development.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Allum Bokhari) - How Anthropic Became the AI Industry’s Black Sheep
The company has refused to embrace openness and competition. The post How Anthropic Became the AI Industry’s Black Sheep appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics How Anthropic Became the AI Industry’s Black Sheep The company has refused to embrace openness and competition. Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images Anthropic has put itself at odds with nearly the entire AI industry. In a conspicuous break with its peers, the frontier lab declined last month to sign an open letter supporting a permissive policy toward open-weight AI models, which anyone can download, modify, and run on their own devices. Anthropic says it acted out of concern for public safety, offering its customary warnings about AI-enabled catastrophe. But its real motives may be…Open
AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - Tech giants are pushing for a new AI agent incident reporting framework
A coalition of more than 120 organizations, including Nvidia, Cisco and CrowdStrike, is proposing a new incident-reporting framework for AI agents that would require participating companies to disclose certain agent mishaps and preserve detailed records of what went wrong. Why it matters: As AI agents gain more autonomy to act across computer systems, the industry lacks a standard way to report security failures and learn from them. Driving the news: The Open Secure AI Alliance is developing guidelines for what it's calling the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE), a proposed framework for how organizations report cyber incidents involving AI agents. - The draft calls for participation from model deployers, AI developers, cloud and tool…
ABCNEWS - Zuckerberg manifesto pushes open-source approach on AI as Meta releases latest model
Meta Platforms has released a new AI model for developers, emphasizing open-source access
AXIOS (Ina Fried) - Zuckerberg: AI's biggest risk is one entity with too much control
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a full-throated defense of AI on Monday morning: a 6,500-word manifesto arguing that the most common concerns are overblown and fail to account for all the positives it can achieve. - In his vision of AI , the biggest risk instead is that one government or entity has too much power over the technology. Why it matters: Zuckerberg's flag in the ground, with a utopian vision of a highly personal AI that fuels individual achievement, comes as policymakers debate how much control they should have over increasingly powerful models. What they're saying: "One of the ways to achieve both individual empowerment and checks and balances is to make sure you put the technology in everybody's hands," Zuckerberg told…