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Open-weight AI companies are the Valley's hottest acquisition targets

Open-weight AI companies are the Valley's hottest acquisition targets: There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away. Read More

An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI: Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance. Read More

Brave's browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases: The feature, announced this week, allows Brave's users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses. Read More

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