The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

Anthropic statement:

We received the directive from the government today at 5:21pm (ET). The letter did not provide specific details of its national security concern. Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or “jailbreaking” Fable 5. We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities all appear relatively simple, and we have found that other publicly-available models are able to discover them as well without requiring a bypass.

Source: Anthropic

Diana first came through YC as a founder. She co-founded Escher Reality (S17), an augmented reality backend that was acquired by Niantic in 2018.

Diana returned to YC in 2021 as a Visiting Group Partner, and joined full-time as a Group Partner in 2022. Over the past four years, she's become one of the most prolific partners in YC's history. She's worked with nearly 230 companies across 18 batches, logged over 2,100 office hours, and those companies are now worth a combined $7 billion.

Source: Y Combinator

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Meta has entered an agreement with Reliance Industries to lease their first AI-enabled data center in India to serve one of their fastest-growing communities.

Meta and Reliance Industries today announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership with an agreement for an AI-enabled data center in India. Located in Jamnagar, Gujarat, this investment reaffirms Meta’s deep commitment to India, bringing infrastructure that powers our products and AI capabilities needed to deliver personal superintelligence to one of our largest and fastest-growing communities globally. As part of the agreement, Reliance will build a data center with 168 MW capacity, which Meta will lease, with options to scale.

“We’re proud to be working with Reliance to build our first AI-enabled data center in India. This world-class facility in Jamnagar will help us scale our AI infrastructure globally while deepening our long-term investment in India’s economy.”
– Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO, Meta

Meta is leasing capacity at a new Reliance data center in Jamnagar, India, powered by renewable energy and cooled with desalinated seawater. Meta will cover the full cost of the energy and water supporting the facility. This investment is a significant milestone in Meta’s global infrastructure expansion and deepens our long-standing strategic partnership with Reliance — one that spans connectivity, commerce, and AI innovation in one of the world’s most dynamic digital markets.

Source: META

Search profiles are a dedicated, shareable space to highlight content across social media, video and news platforms, and help audiences find accurate and up-to-date information about sources on Search.

People can easily follow a source from their new Search profile, so they’re more likely to see content from that source on Discover on the Google app.

Search profiles give publishers and creators a central place to showcase their latest articles, videos and social posts. People can easily follow sources from their profile, so they’re more likely to see that content on Discover, found on the home screen of the Google app. Search profiles can be accessed on mobile via a creator or publisher’s knowledge panel (the information box on Search for notable people, places and things), by tapping the name of a publisher or creator on Discover, or through a direct URL.

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Search profiles will initially launch in the US. In the future, we’ll look to expand Search profiles to more publishers and creators around the world, and add more capabilities to make profiles even more useful. We look forward to seeing how these new profiles help publishers and creators shape their presence and highlight their work on Search.

Source: Google

Anthropic is calling for top AI labs to weigh slowing the pace of development, suggesting that AI systems are advancing so rapidly that they may soon be able to improve themselves without human intervention in ways that could pose societal risks.

The ability to slow global AI development would “likely be a good thing,” the company said Thursday in a blog post that disclosed internal data documenting how quickly its most advanced models are improving.

The post, written by the head of its internal research institute and a company co-founder, noted that model advances appear to be on a path toward “recursive self-improvement,” when AI systems can improve on their own without human intervention. Some AI insiders have seen that threshold as a potential marker of danger and enormous societal upheaval.

“We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advance of the technology,” the post, written by Marina Favaro and Jack Clark, says. It proposes a global agreement on how to potentially slow development and a mechanism for verifying that competitors are respecting it.

The post cautions that recursive self-improvement hasn’t yet happened and isn’t inevitable, “but could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for.”

The $1 trillion startup warns artificial-intelligence models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention

Anthropic has recently emerged as the front-runner in a ferocious competition for AI supremacy with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. Jason Henry for WSJ

Source: WSJ