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Pentagon’s use of Claude during Maduro raid sparks Anthropic feud

The U.S. military used Anthropic's Claude AI model during the operation to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, two sources with knowledge of the situation told Axios. "Anthropic asked whether their software was used for the raid to c…

Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs

It's a seductive distraction from the advances in AI that are most likely to improve or even save your life Having done my PhD on AI language generation (long considered niche), I was thrilled we had come this far. But the awe I felt was riva…

‘Godfather of AI’ becomes first person to hit one million citations • The milestone makes machine-learning trailblazer Yoshua Bengio the most cited researcher on Google Scholar.

Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has become the first person to have their work cited more than one million times on the search engine Google Scholar. Bengio, who is based at the University of Montreal in Canada, is known for his pioneering resea…

A.I. Was Coming for Radiologists’ Jobs. So Far, They’re Just More Efficient. • Experts predicted that artificial intelligence would steal radiology jobs. But at the Mayo Clinic, the technology has been more friend than foe.

Nine years ago, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence scientists singled out an endangered occupational species. “People should stop training radiologists now,” Geoffrey Hinton said, adding that it was “just completely obvious” that …