OpenAI announced a pause on its upcoming Astra model after internal reviews concluded the company "cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities" for developing exploits. CEO Sam Altman said the company needs "a little bit longer to do this safely."
The tape The AI Daily Brief · Aug 10
“These results, in addition to expert assessments, have led us to conclude last night that we cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities under our preparedness framework.”
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The AI Daily Brief · What the Heck is Graph Engineering?Aug 10
The Financial Times reports ByteDance is training a massive 10 trillion parameter model. The effort is allegedly powered by restricted NVIDIA chips leased from data centers in Southeast Asia, a method that circumvents US export controls.
Last Week in AI · #254 - Rogue AI hacking, bio-weapons, Dean & Hassabis outAug 11
A security expert on the 'Last Week in AI' podcast argued there is no defensible case for open-sourcing models capable of designing bioweapons, saying they would "materially increase the essentially destructive footprint" of malicious groups.