Elon Musk's xAI used Anthropic's Claude to train its own coding models for months and kept going even after Anthropic cut off access, using private accounts and the Blackbox AI service. Meanwhile, xAI's pretraining team shrank to fewer than five people, and several leads walked out. The compute Musk bought up is now being rented to Anthropic and Google instead of powering his own mo [...]
A new collaboration between industry leaders should mean robots that are more intelligent and versatile. [...]
A hacker is selling data apparently stolen from ANTS, as the agency confirms suffering a breach. [...]
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