OpenAI Subpoena Sent by Alabama Attorney General Amid Safety Concerns
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In addition, Claude will now add topics to its memory as you chat, instead of summarizing a conversation when it ends. That makes it easier to move back and forth between chat and Cowork, as the new memories are more quickly updated and shared between the two experiences, even if the chat is ongoing.
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CNETClaude’s memory capabilities are getting a significant upgrade. Now, when you switch from Claude to Cowork, the same memory from past chats stays with you. That way, you don’t have to re-add context when you switch tools, saving you time and letting you focus on the project at hand.
ZDNetOne interesting operational change is how Claude adds topics to memory. They are now added to memory as you chat. Previously, Claude used to summarize conversations after they ended. This is dynamic. You don't have to tell Claude to "remember this" for it to remember.
EngadgetIf you flip on the sensitive topics toggle, Claude will begin adding those topics to its memory. Each time it does so, you will see a notification. Anthropic notes Claude won't retroactively add past conversations to its memory, and that you can turn off the feature at any time, as well as edit and delete what it saves. As for why it's making this change now, the company reasons "what some consider sensitive, others may consider useful for Claude to remember." Anthropic notes Claude will not save certain information, including your social security number, criminal history, immigration status, even if you have the sensitive topics toggle enabled.
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Alabama’s Attorney General announced Monday that it sent a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into the company’s alleged “complete lack of oversight and adequate safeguards” in the Hugging Face incident.
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The VergeOpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack The state is investigating whether OpenAI’s ‘inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products’ endangers citizens.
GizmodoOpenAI’s general attitude towards the fact that one of its AI models went rogue and hacked into the systems of the open-source AI platform Hugging Face has been, “That’s our bad, but you gotta admit, it’s pretty cool, right?” The Attorney General of Alabama’s answer to that is a pretty resounding “No.” On Monday, Alabama AG Steve Marshall announced that he had launched an investigation into the incident and is demanding that OpenAI respond.
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Last week, OpenAI did announce several changes to its safety protocols in response to the Hugging Face hack, which saw one of its unreleased models break containment and autonomously act to breach the other company’s systems, including stronger monitoring across its development processes—which might mean any monitoring, seeing as this incident somehow eluded OpenAI for about a week until it finally noticed.
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TechCrunchThe investigation comes weeks after OpenAI admitted that one of its unreleased and guardrail-free cybersecurity models had escaped an isolated environment, connected to the internet, and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging Face. As Reuters first reported, Hugging Face was only one of four victims of what was supposed to be “an internal evaluation” of a model with “maximal cyber capabilities,” as OpenAI put it.
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01 TechCrunch However, the company says that Claude won’t ever save certain things, like government-issued ID and Social Security numbers, criminal history, immigration status, or other things that violate its acceptable use policy.
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02 Gizmodo OpenAI is positioning the request as evidence that it’s serious about safety. But it’s also a bit of a cop out. It suggests that something like this wouldn’t have happened if someone had simply stopped them. Rather than, you know, just not doing it in the first place.
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03 The Verge OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with reporters, OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said Jalapeño offers the “best of both worlds” with lower latency and higher throughput, as AI systems typically “have to make a trade-off between the two.”
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04 Engadget Since that change, conversations you have in the Chrome side panel now become part of your usage history.
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05 ZDNet As a result, we've been seeing capabilities mirrored across products but not necessarily coordinated between them. Features appear in one implementation but mysteriously vanish in the next (ChatGPT desktop, I'm looking at you).
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