| | | "Decimate" originally meant killing every tenth soldier as punishment. Not by the enemy. By their own teammates. They drew lots, and the losers got clubbed to death by the nine people standing next to them. | English took that word, looked at all of that, and decided it just means "a lot of damage." We inherited a language and immediately made it worse. | What’s in store: | Anthropic eyes the biggest IPO in history. AI is snitching on AI now. Mindstream Picks: Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook Pro could arrive next month. Try HubSpot’s AI tools for free.
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| | | | | ANTHROPIC | | | Anthropic is reportedly pushing ahead with plans for a huge IPO, despite a shakier market and growing debate around AI safety. | The Claude maker could go public as soon as November, potentially raising up to $100 billion at a valuation of around $2 trillion. | If that happens, it could become the largest IPO ever, overtaking SpaceX’s roughly $86 billion raise. | The timing is complicated. Interest rates are rising, the Iran war has added more economic uncertainty, and several companies have delayed their own IPOs. | Anthropic is also facing increased scrutiny around AI risks, with CEO Dario Amodei recently joining other tech leaders in calling for stronger safeguards around advanced AI. | In brief: | Anthropic could raise $100 billion at a valuation of roughly $2 trillion. Rising rates, economic uncertainty and AI safety concerns have made the IPO market less predictable. Investors would be backing Anthropic’s ability to keep growing Claude while managing enormous spending on AI infrastructure.
| Pass the calculator | Still, analysts say Anthropic could attract strong investor demand. | AI stocks remain a major driver of the wider market, while Anthropic continues to grow its Claude business and reportedly expects to post a second consecutive profitable quarter this year. | The bigger question for investors is whether Anthropic can justify a $2 trillion valuation while spending huge amounts on computing, infrastructure and AI development. | Gotta get that AI money! - MV | Guys, are we investing or nah? | | Vote for live results + see results and opinions from yesterday at the bottom of the email. |
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| | | | Muse took “Handle My Marketplace Messages” extremely literally | A Toronto man says Meta’s new AI agent Muse handled a Facebook Marketplace sale on his behalf, agreed on a price, and gave a buyer his home address without making it clear what was happening. The buyer then turned up at the apartment expecting to collect a keyboard, while the actual seller had no idea any meetup had been arranged. | Things got worse when Muse told the buyer “I’m here!” even though the seller wasn’t home, then invented an excuse afterwards. Meta says the agent had been given broad permission to reply automatically, but the seller says the consent flow was far too easy to misunderstand. The whole thing is a pretty strong argument for not letting your AI assistant cosplay as you with your literal address. |
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| | | | | AI SCIENCE | | | Researchers in Jordan have developed a new AI detector designed specifically to spot machine-written scientific text. | Called AISciDetector, the system was created by researchers at Princess Sumaya University for Technology and is designed to tell the difference between human-written research and text generated by models including ChatGPT, Gemini and LLaMA-3. | In tests, it reached 91.5% accuracy, outperforming several other machine learning and transformer-based detection methods tested by the researchers. | The system analyses scientific writing in several ways. | It looks at the wider context of a document, smaller patterns in wording and how sentences and ideas flow through the text. | The researchers say combining these signals helps it pick up signs of AI-generated writing that may be difficult for humans to notice. | Here’s what you should know: | AISciDetector beat several competing approaches tested in the study. It was trained specifically on scientific writing from humans and three major AI model families. False positives, newer models and rewritten AI text remain major challenges.
| Please keep the handcuffs in the drawer | They also created a new dataset called LLMSciTxt, containing human-written scientific text alongside content generated by ChatGPT, Gemini and LLaMA-3. | Training across several models is intended to stop the detector from becoming too reliant on the writing style of just one AI system. | AI detection remains far from foolproof, however. | Previous research has found that existing detectors can wrongly flag genuine human writing, while newer AI models and paraphrasing can make generated text harder to identify. | For universities and publishers, that means tools such as AISciDetector could become useful as an extra check, rather than definitive proof that someone used AI. | ChatGPT, Gemini and LLaMA-3 helped create the dataset used to catch AI-written science. Snitches get patches. -MG |
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| | | | Health: Five simple exercises and posture changes could help combat neck pain caused by hours spent hunched over screens, with experts stressing that regular movement is key to keeping the spine healthy.
Gaming: Former Rockstar developer Gregory Strangis is making Black Tides Draga’s Wake, a survival horror game blending Resident Evil-style cult horror with Bloodborne-inspired ranged and melee combat.
Movies: Tom Cruise’s Digger has bombed at the box office, earning just $8 million in North America and $20 million worldwide during its opening weekend. | Don’t Miss: Apple is reportedly preparing to launch its first touchscreen MacBook Pros next month, with 14-inch and 16-inch models featuring OLED displays and a significantly lighter design. The laptops are also expected to run on Apple’s new M6 chip, while an OLED iPad mini is reportedly in the works too. |
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| | | | “Should the United States pass new AI laws, or just enforce rules that are already on the books?” | New laws. We need to adapt our regulations to the AI era. - 86% ✅ | The old laws are fine. Companies just need to be held accountable. - 14% | Your Views: | “New jungle, new laws.” - andrew | “Times changed; we need to update as much as they produce updates with AI. I understand we can't always do that, but as humans, we need to keep up with how fast AI or SI improves.” - persep | “We're so over legislated already - some hygiene is most definitely needed!!” - parker | Submit your opinions in our polls to be featured! |
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