Jeffrey Dastin
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AI startup Mantic raises $25 million for superhuman forecasting (opens the original)
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Sept 18 (Reuters) - Mantic, an artificial intelligence developer that beat humans in a recent contest for forecasting events, on Friday said it raised $25 million in seed funding. Results from the summer 2026 Metaculus Cup, an online forecasting tournament that wrapped up this month, showed theLondon-based startup had assigned probabilities to political, economic and cultural developments more accurately than human competitors.
Exclusive-Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program (opens the original)
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science. At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab, or place for physical experiments, in the San Francisco Bay Area,two people familiar with the matter said. Anthropic has said it wants to unlock treatments for rare diseases, and its biology work hasgone beyond "in silico" or
Microsoft AI chief calls out Anthropic's approach to AI consciousness (opens the original)
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Sept 16 (Reuters) - Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman said he shared Anthropic's focus on safely managing AI, but flagged risks in the way it trains its Claude chatbot on ideas related to consciousness and welfare interests. Suleyman called for removing all speculation about consciousness from AI training documents, arguing such language could undermine humanity's ability to control superintelligent systems.
Microsoft drafts code of conduct to keep its AI under human control (opens the original)
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Microsoft on Monday unveiled a draft code of conduct for its in-house artificial intelligence that reflects growing industry concern that companies must keep future powerful AI under human control. The document, in the works for five to sixmonths, would require Microsoft's AI to never resist correction or shutdown, to communicate in ways that humans can understand, and to consider any conduct violation to be a failure — an effort to address concerns that AI
Exclusive-The AI founders who walked away from Bezos-backed Prometheus to model the universe (opens the original)
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 25 (Reuters) - A research duo, once pitched to lead the Jeff Bezos-backed Project Prometheus, on Tuesday unveiled what they've built on their own: an AI model that can take in and produce information so vast that a lone computer might not handle it. Their company, Accelerated Understanding Inc, says it has developed a different type of AI model that in tests handled 5 trillion pieces of data in a single prompt. That is some 5 million times the size of what Anthropic and Goo
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