Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test

Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test

Computer pioneer Alan Turing is best known for his eponymous experiment to test whether artificial and human intelligence can be distinguished. However, the more important test he faced during his lifetime was cracking the Enigma code used by Nazi Germany during World War II. Now, a pair of cryptanalysts say they’ve cracked two long-unsolved messages … Read more

Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk

Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk

Anthropic lost a legal battle to overturn one of the supply-chain risk labels that the US Department of Defense slapped on the company, as a federal appeals court in DC on Friday refused to second-guess the Trump administration. “The department had ample support for its conclusion that the continued integration of Claude into the department’s … Read more

Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

Anthropic to pay Akamai .6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion over seven years on Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, Akamai said Thursday. That’s more than six times the size of a $1.8 billion deal between the two companies that Bloomberg reported in May. The commitment isn’t ironclad; according to Akamai’s securities filing, it depends on Akamai meeting certain delivery and service-availability requirements, … Read more

Rightsholders Can’t Use OpenAI and Anthropic to Dismantle Meta’s Seeding Defense * TorrentFreak

Rightsholders Can’t Use OpenAI and Anthropic to Dismantle Meta’s Seeding Defense * TorrentFreak

Over the past two years, rightsholders of all kinds have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. Meta is among a long list of companies now being sued for this allegedly infringing activity. This includes a class action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman, which accused Meta of training its … Read more