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Dario Amodei

The latest news and top stories on Dario Amodei. An American artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur, he is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Anthropic, an AI safety and research company known for its Claude large language models. Previously, he served as Vice President of Research at OpenAI, where he was instrumental in developing GPT-2 and GPT-3. With a PhD in physics, Amodei is a prominent advocate for responsible AI development, focusing on interpretability and steerable systems. He has warned about AI's potential to displace white-collar jobs and emphasises building safe, trustworthy AI. His work reflects a commitment to mitigating AI risks.

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Music publishers accuse Anthropic of ‘blatant theft’ in major new lawsuit

The case, brought by 35 music publishers, adds to the legal challenges facing Anthropic as the AI firm eyes a potential blockbuster IPO.

Meta strikes at China’s open AI lead, betting on potential US curbs

US AI leaders are using Chinese open models for cybersecurity. Here’s why

Could Silicon Valley’s lobbying create ‘mutual suspicion’ between US and China?

American tech giants are trying to tap into lawmakers concerns about China to secure favourable outcomes, some analysts have warned.

Moonshot’s Kimi K3 triggers debate over US bans on Chinese open source models

Chinese open-weight models are gaining wider adoption overseas, raising concerns in Washington over China’s accelerating AI progress.

Can Anthropic CEO’s chip ban proposal curb China’s AI advancements?

Dario Amodei wants the US to retain its AI advantage over China, highlighting distillation risks and advocating mandatory model safety tests.

For China’s tech workers, AI ‘optimisation’ sounds like ‘unemployment’

China’s office workers are worrying whether their jobs can be done by artificial intelligence – and whether their companies will make the switch.

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Cutting off the company’s latest models for non-Americans only serves to highlight China’s open-source alternatives to the rest of the world.

Alibaba AI beats Google and OpenAI in global coding rankings

The Chinese tech giant is the only non-US firm to crack the top five in Code Arena’s latest leaderboard.

‘Human dignity’: Pope Leo, Anthropic to launch pontiff’s first AI document

The presence of the firm at the Vatican could mean a new flashpoint with the US, which in February ordered all agencies to stop using it.

From scepticism to concern: Mythos panic is slowly starting to reach China

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said on its influential social media account that Mythos showed ‘unprecedented cyberattack capabilities’.

White House and Anthropic CEO discuss working together amid Mythos AI fears

The model’s capabilities give it a potentially unprecedented ability to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities – and to ‌exploit them.

Opinion | AI pessimism is a luxury the Global South cannot afford

Young, developing states must ride the tech waves if they don’t want to fall further behind and learn from others’ mistakes.

China warns US against letting AI ‘determine life and death’ on battlefield

China believes that human primacy must be upheld in military applications of AI, defence ministry spokesman says.

Anthropic sues Trump administration as row over AI use by military deepens

The Pentagon blacklisted the start-up after it refused to let its technology be used for fully autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance.

Anthropic vows to sue US after Trump tells government to stop using firm’s AI

The start-up has refused to let its models be used for the mass surveillance of US citizens or deployed in fully autonomous weapons systems.

Opinion | Who will save the world from a US-China AI arms race?

Unrestrained military AI could doom us all. The window for a global middle-power alliance to rein in the superpowers is closing fast.

Trump’s decision to sell AI chips to China under pressure as House bill advances

A key Republican challenges White House AI czar and Nvidia despite Maga backlash; it must still pass both chambers and get Trump’s signature.

AI shaping world’s biggest infrastructure buildout: Nvidia CEO

Each country should build their own AI system, incorporating its own language and culture into the AI models, Huang says at the WEF in Davos.

Microsoft makes US$17.5 billion pledge for AI cloud in India

The country of 1.45 billion people is increasingly drawing the attention of AI power brokers as a market and a source of talent and data.

Opinion | Will AI kill the middle class?

When the creators of a new technology warn that it could destroy the primary engine of global growth of the past half a century, it’s worth paying attention.

Anthropic commits US$50 billion to build AI data centres in US

The start-up plans to build data centres in Texas, New York and other locations in partnership with UK firm Fluidstack.

Tech war: ByteDance drops Claude after Anthropic restricts China access

ByteDance-backed coding app Trae reassures users after they complain of losing low-cost access to top AI coding model.

My Take | America’s billionaire tech bros are bringing us closer to the end times

Whether it’s the Antichrist, the eugenic need to propagate smart babies to colonise Mars, or Cold War rhetoric against China, they are imposing eccentric and often dangerous ideas on the public.

Anthropic’s ‘anti-China’ stance triggers exit of star AI researcher

Chinese researcher Yao Shunyu joins Google DeepMind after Anthropic labels China as an ‘adversarial nation’.

Anthropic’s Claude restrictions put overseas AI tools backed by China in limbo

Amid the confusion, some Chinese AI companies have taken the opportunity to woo disgruntled users.

As AI eliminates entry-level roles, coding boot camps are on decline

Coding boot camps have been a Silicon Valley mainstay for years, but the entry-level developer roles they train for are rapidly disappearing.

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