Dario Amodei says AI industry ‘lied’ about technology’s risks
Amodei made the remarks on CBS Sunday Morning, one day after calling for AI companies to slow down their frontier research.
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OpenAI isn’t going public this year, Sam Altman says
Wall Street was poised for a massive OpenAI IPO by the end of the year—but the CEO says that’s not happening.
Meta offered this Australian $1.5 billion. Now he’s joining Anthropic.
Australian engineer Andrew Tulloch joined Meta last year after founding Thinking Machines Lab with OpenAI’s former CTO. He starts at Anthropic next week.
Anthropic says it blocked possible biological weapons undertaking
Anthropic believes the blocked research into biological weapons was suspicious because it was intended to be carried out at a military research institute.
‘OpenAI can’t mark its own homework’: Optus ex-CEO says rogue AI is an inevitability
Kelly Bayer Rosmarin’s Aigentsphere startup raised $4 million from VC Main Sequence earlier this year.
Australian AI lab caps $10 million pre-seed raise to run in global AI race
Metacognition AI raised $10 million from Main Sequence in a round ten times the size of Australia’s pre-seed average.
‘10% chance’ AI could ‘kill all humans’ by next decade, Anthropic researcher warns
The warnings come amid a push by some AI executives for a coordinated slowdown in AI development.
First look at Andrew Garfield as OpenAI billionaire Sam Altman in ‘Artificial’
“Artificial” will open in select theaters on Christmas Day, distributor Neon announced Tuesday.
OpenAI inks deal with $14 billion Australian data centre player Firmus
OpenAI will be a foundational customer of two AI Factory data centres Australian company Firmus is developing. Key Takeaways Key Background Founded by Oliver Curtis and Tim Rosenfield, Firmus has rocketed almost out of nowhere to become Australia’s third largest data centre company by valuation. It has raised US$2.5 billion ($3.5 billion) so far this […]
He’s quietly invested in Australia’s biggest space tech startups. Now he’s moving to launch a $150m fund
Will Scully-Power has for the past two been investing in Australian space startups. Now he’s looking to launch a VC fund.