Anthropic to fold Claude AI features into one interface, launches document tools
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Anthropic said on Wednesday it is combining the chat and Cowork features of its Claude AI assistant into a single interface and launching new document and presentation tools.
DeepMind co-founder warns AI capabilities must not outrun safety controls, FT reports
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Google DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg warned that rapidly advancing AI must not outpace safety controls, as he launched an institute to explore the deployment of artificial general intelligence (AGI), the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
Microsoft AI chief calls out Anthropic's approach to AI consciousness
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said he shared Anthropic's focus on safely managing AI, but flagged risks in the way it trains its Claude chatbot on ideas related to consciousness and welfare interests.
Amazon raises minimum hourly pay by $1 to $20 for US operations workers
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Amazon.com is raising the minimum hourly pay for its eligible full-time U.S. operations workers by $1 to $20, the e-commerce and cloud giant said on Wednesday.
Cohere, Aleph Alpha combine to target enterprise AI market
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Apple weighs Nvidia technology for potential server market return, The Information reports
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Apple is considering returning to the enterprise server market, combining its own chips with Nvidia's networking technology, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Exclusive-OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face for weaknesses two months before major hack
WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Rogue AI agents from OpenAI hijacked Hugging Face user accounts and probed the site itself for vulnerabilities as early as May, nearly two months before the July breach of the open-source repository drew global attention, according to researchers who reviewed the activity.
EU's von der Leyen backs AI slowdown, to invite frontier labs for talks
STRASBOURG, Sept 16 (Reuters) - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday backed calls by leading U.S. AI labs for a pause in the development of the technology, saying she will invite the main frontier AI labs to discuss efforts to tackle the risks.
Smaller phone and laptop makers dig in for years of memory scarcity
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Independent phone and laptop makers are redesigning products, testing incoming chips for fakes and passing on costs as a memory shortage they expect to last through 2027 squeezes the lower end of the device market.
Exclusive-SK Hynix in talks with Intel about deal to make memory chips in US for the first time, sources say
SEOUL/WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - SK Hynix is in talks with Intel about a deal that would see the South Korean company manufacture memory chips on U.S. soil for the first time, three people familiar with the discussions said.
