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This is entirely insane and disconnected from any sane reading of the law. @Techmeme@techhub.social https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116998514444818066

Sigh.. the ongoing challenge that when I want to share a story I read on https://techmeme.com (also @… ), I first have to try the various links to find one that is NOT paywalled. 🤦‍♂️😞

"To Deter Seals, Tasmanian Salmon Farmers Have Set Off 1,800 Bombs This Year"
#Australia #Seals #Animals

To Deter Seals, Tasmanian Salmon Farmers Have Set Off 1,800 Bombs This Year

Anthropic releases findings from a pilot that let three external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/enabling-independent-research

Enabling independent research on how people use Claude
Earlier this year, we ran a pilot giving external researchers access to aggregate, real-world Claude usage data. Three research groups designed their own studies for Anthropic Insights, our privacy-preserving analysis tool. In this post, we share high-level results from those studies and what we learned running this pilot.

Exponential growth across 2 dimensions, users and tokens per user, makes this AI era different from earlier buildouts, and allows AI labs' compute math to work (Fin/@fi56622380)
https://x.com/fi56622380/status/2093040177711329673

fin (@fi56622380) on X
AI Semiconductor Endgame 2026 (III)

US tech giants have shifted their stance to publicly backing open AI models, with Anthropic and Amazon remaining notable holdouts alongside the US government (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/open-weight-ai-models/

Thoughts on "Open" Models
The open letter on open weights feels familiar yet different...

Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures (Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/amid-personal-assistant-investor

Amid Personal Assistant Investor Frenzy, Town Nears $1 Billion Valuation in Round Led by Instinct-Backer Index Ventures
Town, the buzzy enterprise personal agent, is raising at $1 billion, sources tell us

Mate, which is developing a platform to allow AI agents to detect, respond to, and proactively hunt threats, raised a $35M Series A led by Canaan Partners (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ryb30q8bge

Former Wiz and Microsoft veterans raise $35 million Series A to build the “operating system” for AI cybersecur
Mate Security says traditional security operations were not designed for AI-scale attacks. The startup is betting that trusted autonomous agents, powered by an “organizational brain,” will reshape how companies detect and respond to threats. 

Dario Amodei says Anthropic has never backed an open-weights model ban, lists reasons top chips shouldn't be sold to China, calls for global model testing, more (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models

Our position on open-weights models
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models

Q&A with Sam Altman on the Hugging Face breach, the race for compute, distillation, open source, concentration of power, robotics, OpenAI's future, and more (Invest Like The Best on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDB5beon4DY