A Microsoft executive called OpenAI's web scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history', Anthropic says Claude 'leads' 26 percent of its AI R&D work, and the FAA says laser strikes on aircraft fell again

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Meta is reportedly gearing up to launch new smart glasses without a camera

The company is hoping they would attract new customers amid privacy concerns over current models, The Information says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

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OpenAI revealed more instances of concerning AI model behaviors, Meta's rules for AI deepfakes are 'consistently and fundamentally inadequate', and a Japanese company developed a humanoid robot 'ambulance'.

-OpenAI revealed six new incidents, wherein the models it was testing acted on their own and behaved in concerning ways it didn't expect, in a post about how it was adopting a new framework for "misalignment reports." -The Oversight Board is once again pushing Meta to address the ...  Show more

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