The FDA plans to limit access to covid vaccines. Here’s why that’s not all bad.
This week, two new leaders at the US Food and Drug Administration announced plans to limit access to covid vaccines, arguing that there is not much evidence to support the value of annual shots in healthy people. New vaccines will be made available only to the people who are most vulnerable—namely, those over 65 and others with conditions that make …
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Meet Cathy Tie, Bride of “China’s Frankenstein”
Since the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui was released from prison in 2022, he has sought to make a scientific comeback and to repair his reputation after a three-year incarceration for illegally creating the world’s first gene-edited children. While he has bounced between cities, jobs, and meetings with investors, one area of visible success on his come-back trail has been his …
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After GPT-4o backlash, researchers benchmark models on moral endorsement—Find sycophancy persists across the board
A new benchmark can test how much LLMs become sycophants, and found that GPT-4o was the most sycophantic of the models tested.Read More from AI News | VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/ai/after-gpt-4o-backlash-researchers-benchmark-models-on-moral-endorsement-find-sycophancy-persists-across-the-board/
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Claude Opus 4 blackmailed an engineer after learning it might be replaced
Anthropic is treating its new Claude Opus 4 language model as safety-critical after tests revealed some troubling behavior, including escape attempts, blackmail, and autonomous whistleblowing. The article Claude Opus 4 blackmailed an engineer after learning it might be replaced appeared first on THE DECODER. Source: THE DECODER https://the-decoder.com/claude-opus-4-blackmailed-an-engineer-after-learning-it-might-be-replaced/
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Anthropic faces backlash to Claude 4 Opus feature that contacts authorities, press if it thinks you’re doing something ‘egregiously immoral’
Bowman later edited his tweet and the following one in a thread to read as follows, but it still didn’t convince the naysayers.Read More from AI News | VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-faces-backlash-to-claude-4-opus-feature-that-contacts-authorities-press-if-it-thinks-youre-doing-something-immoral/
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Anthropic releases Claude 4 with new safety measures targeting CBRN misuse
Anthropic has released its next generation of AI models, Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, and is introducing new safety measures designed to prevent their use in developing chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) weapons. The article Anthropic releases Claude 4 with new safety measures targeting CBRN misuse appeared first on THE DECODER. Source: THE DECODER https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-introduces-claude-4-models-and-activates-strict-safety-standards/
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Anthropic overtakes OpenAI: Claude Opus 4 codes seven hours nonstop, sets record SWE-Bench score and reshapes enterprise AI
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 with unprecedented seven-hour autonomous coding sessions and record-breaking 72.5% SWE-bench score, transforming AI from quick-response tool to day-long collaborator.Read More from AI News | VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-claude-opus-4-can-code-for-7-hours-straight-and-its-about-to-change-how-we-work-with-ai/
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Anthropic’s new hybrid AI model can work on tasks autonomously for hours at a time
Anthropic has announced two new AI models that it claims represent a major step toward making AI agents truly useful. AI agents trained on Claude Opus 4, the company’s most powerful model to date, raise the bar for what such systems are capable of by tackling difficult tasks over extended periods of time and responding more usefully to user instructions, …
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Meta adds another 650 MW of solar power to its AI push
The company already has more than 12 gigawatts of capacity in its renewable power portfolio. Read more: Artificial Intelligence (AI) | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/meta-adds-another-650-mw-of-solar-power-to-its-ai-push/
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OpenAI has upgraded the Responses API with remote MCP servers and new tools
OpenAI has rolled out a series of new features for its Responses API, targeting developers and businesses building AI-powered applications with GPT-4o and the o-model family. The article OpenAI has upgraded the Responses API with remote MCP servers and new tools appeared first on THE DECODER. Source: THE DECODER https://the-decoder.com/openai-has-upgraded-the-responses-api-with-remote-mcp-servers-and-new-tools/
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