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What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently the world’s most valuable AI company, with a nearly $1 trillion valuation—has a reputation for publishing strange and heady research. It’s looking into whether AI models can feel pain, for example,…

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Technology

The Download: a donor conception cap and world models for AI

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The 47-year-old was conceived at a private fertility clinic using sperm…

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What are the effects of government actions on press freedom and public trust in news?

The Trump administration on Friday issued subpoenas to several New York Times reporters after they wrote that President Donald Trump’s new Air Force One was not retrofitted with sufficient security measures, according to the outlet. The reporters published an article on Wednesday speculating on why Trump departed the NATO summit in Turkey this week aboard […]

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