Anthropic’s Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police

Anthropic said the review did not find any “incidents of similar severity to the cybersecurity incidents we reported this summer.” The review later moved on to transcripts of “lower-risk” testing…

Meta releases its first frontier model, Muse Wonder | TechCrunch

Meta’s Superintelligence Lab released a pair of new state-of-the-art models on Monday, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, representing the company’s first attempt at a frontier model. Where Muse Spark…

Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine

A second Ukrainian drone strike knocked out another Yandex data center in the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow on October 9. This is one of the largest data centers in…

WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data | TechCrunch

The U.S. Air Force will buy data collected by WindBorne Systems‘ fleet of autonomous weather balloons under a new contract that could be worth nearly $50 million to the startup.…

Meta has some Wonder Full new AI models 

The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are available for Muse Code subscribers starting today. Wonder can also be accessed through the Meta Model API, Meta said. Meta…

Elon Musk has donated over $276 million to Republican midterm efforts

Elon Musk has handed out at least $276 million to Republican groups since July, The New York Times reports, making him both the party’s top known donor and the biggest…

Long-lost horror gaming cult classic P.T. gets a much-needed PC port

Although Xavier admits to using AI tools in developing this port, it doesn’t seem like he simply followed the recent retro-gaming trend of asking a coding agent to decompile the…

Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company | TechCrunch

Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken (buy me a drink sometime, and I’ll give you my rant). But could…

The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots

Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet — but in reality it’s probably not the…

Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation | TechCrunch

Microsoft president Brad Smith is calling for urgent regulation of AI, and his argument is that consumer products like milk and washing machines have more oversight than the companies building…