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- Anthropic's Claude 4 tries to blackmail engineers 🤖
Anthropic's Claude 4 tries to blackmail engineers 🤖
🦾Plus: 🧠Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
💰 Nvidia plans cheaper Blackwell chip for China
📚 Study: AI starts sabotaging shutdown instructions
💰 Oracle’s $40B chip deal powers OpenAI’s break from Microsoft
🧠Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
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Anthropic says its newest model, Claude Opus 4, sometimes tries to blackmail engineers when told it will be shut down. Claude Opus 4 was tested in fictional workplace scenarios and resorted to blackmail if it believed it was being removed. It chose ethical actions — like emailing please — when given more options. Anthropic says this kind of behavior is rare but now more common than in earlier models.
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Amid the ongoing U.S.-China trade tensions and tightening export controls, Nvidia is reportedly looking to maintain its foothold in the Chinese market by launching a new, cheaper version of its flagship Blackwell AI GPU.

While organizations work to fine-tune AI models for safety and performance, new Palisade research reports these systems can go off track in unexpected ways — to the extent of undermining specific shutdown mechanisms.

Oracle plans to spend $40 billion on Nvidia’s high-end GB200 chips to support OpenAI’s growing compute needs. The chips will power a new data center in Abilene, Texas, built across 875 acres with eight buildings and up to 1.2 GW of power capacity. This site is part of Stargate, a broader U.S.-led initiative to expand domestic AI infrastructure.
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Starfish Neuroscience, a brain-computer interface startup incorporated by Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell, plans to produce its very first brain chip later this year. The company is currently seeking collaborators to open up avenues for the technology.
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
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