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It has also established the Anthropic Institute, an AI research initiative.
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-According to a new study from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, in partnership with CNN, 8 of the 10 most popular AI chatbots were willing to help plan violent attacks when tested by researchers.

-Superhuman has taken its writing assistant Grammarly on quite the merry-go-round ride regarding its approach to AI tools.

-Google Play has introduced a new feature called Game Trials, which will let you play a portion of paid games for free before you commit to buying them.
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The Gemini-powered tools will handle routine tasks on unclassified networks, with classified access in the works.
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-A whistleblower has claimed that a former software engineer from DOGE said he possessed two databases from the SSA and asked for help transferring the databases from a thumb drive "to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data.

-Meta is snapping up Moltbook, a Reddit-like social network for AI agents that has been around since January and remains completely ridiculous.

-Josh Wardle is back with a new game called Parseword.
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Anthropic's CEO indicated last week it would fight back against the government's claims.
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