Musk turns to rival Anthropic to power Grok Tech Elon Musk has opted to buy competing technology as he is set to use rival Anthropic’s AI models to power parts of Grok, despite spending heavily to build his own AI challenger. Musk said on Wednesday that the Grok bot would use the “best back-end model for any given task”, including Anthropic’s latest Claude Opus [...]
AI firms targeting London’s rare book shops in ‘dystopian’ hunt for training data AI London’s rare book shops appear to have been targeted by AI companies searching for books to train their models, after court documents revealed Anthropic bought, scanned and destroyed millions of physical books as part of a controversial project to feed an insatiable demand for training data. One London-based seller of rare books told City AM [...]
Government accelerates social media crackdown with midnight curfews Tech Teenagers will face a default midnight social media curfew and stripped-back social media feeds under the government’s latest crackdown on addictive online features – but they will be able to switch the restrictions off themselves. Tech secretary Liz Kendall has announced social media platforms will disable auto-play and infinite scroll-style recommendations and restrict overnight access [...]