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Google to provide AI models to Pentagon for classified work

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Google to provide AI models to Pentagon for classified work Google has signed a deal with the Pentagon to provide its artificial intelligence (AI) models for classified work, despite concerns raised by hundreds of employees this week over the terms of the agreement. © AP The Pentagon reached...

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What is ‘Ozempic personality’? What we know about the emotional flattening reported by some users

There's a name for the blah some GLP-1 users are feeling. A loss of interest in foods they once enjoyed or diminished motivation to take part in activities they used to love, like sports or gardening. It's called “Ozempic personality” or anhedonia. As with “Ozempic face” and “Ozempic butt” before it, “Ozempic personality” started not as an official diagnosis but as an encapsulation of the experiences people have shared online. According to anecdotes but not the scientific literature, some users have experienced a kind of emotional flattening. Read More
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China stealing US AI technology, White House official says

By: AFP
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The White House on Thursday accused Chinese entities of a massive effort to steal US artificial intelligence technology and vowed to take action to prevent the alleged theft.

The White House. Photo: White House, via Flickr.
The White House. Photo: White House, via Flickr.

“The US has evidence that foreign entities, primarily in China, are running industrial-scale distillation campaigns to steal American AI,” White House science and technology chief Michael Kratsios said in a post on X.

“We will be taking action to protect American innovation.”

Distillation is a common practice within AI development, often used by companies to create cheaper, smaller versions of their own models.

In February, US AI developer Anthropic accused three Chinese firms, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax, of running campaigns to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude chatbot, describing it as intellectual property theft.

That same month, ChatGPT creator OpenAI sent a letter to US legislators accusing DeepSeek of using distillation techniques amid “ongoing efforts to free-ride on the capabilities developed by OpenAI and other US frontier labs.”

Kratsios did not name any specific foreign entities in his post but said they “are using tens of thousands of proxies and jailbreaking techniques in coordinated campaigns to systematically extract American breakthroughs.”

The accusations come ahead of a planned May 14 summit in Beijing between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

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Anthropic becomes impossible for White House to ignore

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Anthropic becomes impossible for White House to ignore Anthropic’s new Mythos model is keeping the company’s foot in the White House’s door despite the Trump administration blacklisting the firm’s products from military and government work earlier this year. © Prakash Singh, Bloomberg via Getty Images Mythos, Anthropic’s most...

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Pro-AI network Leading the Future wades into first set of state legislative races 

The pro-artificial intelligence (AI) network Leading the Future, which has poured in millions of dollars for congressional primaries this year, is now setting its sights on state legislative races as it looks to shape policy at the local level. Leading the Future, a network of several pro-AI super PACs, announced on Thursday its first slate of state legislative endorsements, all of whom are...

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