Author: Advanced AI Editor

This post is co-written with Gareth Jones from Anthropic. Anthropic’s Claude 4 Sonnet model has launched on Amazon Bedrock, marking a significant advancement in foundation model capabilities. Consequently, the deprecation timeline for Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet (v1 and v2) was announced. This evolution creates a dual imperative for production AI applications: the opportunity to harness enhanced performance and the operational necessity to migrate before deprecation. Organizations must treat model migrations as a core component of their AI inference strategy, because poor execution can result in service disruptions, performance regressions, and cost overruns. This post provides a systematic approach to migrating…

ASML Holding (ASML), the pioneer in semiconductor equipment, has taken a significant stride into the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape by forging a long-term partnership with France-based Mistral AI. The alliance is designed to weave AI models into ASML’s entire product portfolio, encompassing research, development, and operational processes. To cement the alliance, ASML is leading Mistral’s Series C funding round with an investment of €1.3 billion ($1.5 billion), securing roughly an 11% stake on a fully diluted basis. The move positions ASML as a strategic investor and key influencer in shaping Mistral AI’s technology roadmap, granting it a seat on the startup’s Strategic Committee.…

Archaeological treasures from Gaza’s five main archaeological sites were removed from the French Biblical and Archaeological School of Jerusalem in what the school’s director called “a high-risk operation, carried out in an extremely dangerous context for everyone involved—a real last-minute rescue.”  As reported in the Guardian, Israel ordered the school to evacuate its storehouse in the ground floor of a Gaza City residential building before a threatened military strike on Wednesday. The space was home to relics from Gaza’s five main archaeological sites, including a fourth-century monastery designated as a Unesco world heritage site where exposed mosaics remain even after damage…

Billionaire AI mogul Sam Altman is preparing to part ways with his enormous Hawaii compound, putting the property on the market for the eye-watering sum of $49 million—just 18 months after he wed his longtime partner, Oliver Mulherin, on the grounds of the estate.Altman, 40, who is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, quietly purchased the property in an off-market deal back in July 2021; however, his ownership of the extraordinary beachfront dwelling was not made public until November 2023.Since then, Altman’s career has gone from strength to strength, thanks largely to the launch of ChatGPT in 2022,…

MIT police are investigating two instances of hand-drawn swastikas on campus that were discovered this week, President Sally Kornbluth announced in a statement Friday morning.In addition to the swastikas, other “disturbing” messages “wishing violence” or celebrating it were identified on campus in the days following the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, Kornbluth said in an email to the MIT community.“In the context of this week’s horrifying murder of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, these manifestations of hatred towards others for their views, beliefs or identity are even more concerning,” Kornbluth said in her statement.MIT President…

By David Wong and Joel Hron When ChatGPT launched in late 2022, it was a wake-up call for many companies. For us, it wasn’t just a signal, it was a catalyst. It validated the long-held ambitions of our engineers and product leaders to apply AI in solving the kinds of customer problems we had struggled to crack with earlier-generation technologies. Traditional chat-based interfaces, while useful for reactive tasks, often struggle to stay aligned with user goals, handle multistep reasoning or take meaningful action. They can be more like teammates waiting for the next assignment than ones who anticipate needs. David…

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AI language models like the kind that power ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude excel at producing exactly this kind of believable fiction when they lack actual information on a topic because they first and foremost produce plausible outputs, not accurate ones. If there are no patterns in the dataset that match what the user is seeking they will create the best approximation based on statistical patterns learned during training. Even AI models that can search the web for real sources can potentially fabricate citations, choose the wrong ones, or mischaracterize them. “Errors happen. Made-up citations are a totally different thing where…

Britannica, which is being represented by lawyers from Susman Godfrey, did not specify how much money it was seeking in damages.The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges Perplexity’s summaries use information generated from Britannica. Those summaries keep users from clicking on Britannica sites, denying the publisher the opportunity to sell subscriptions or generate advertising revenue from site visits, according to the complaint.“Perplexity’s so-called ‘answer engine’ eliminates users’ clicks on Plaintiffs’ and other web publishers’ websites—and, in turn, starves web publishers of revenue—by generating responses to users’ queries that substitute the…

Artist Nicholas Galanin said he pulled out of a symposium related to a Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition, claiming that he was asked not to record the event or share footage of it on social media. That show, “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” was one of the exhibitions singled out by Donald Trump in an executive order earlier this year about the Smithsonian’s museums. He claimed those institutions had “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology.” The exhibition itself, Trump wrote, “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a…