Anthropic researcher quits as colleague warns AI could ‘kill all humans’ Tech An Anthropic researcher has resigned from the trillion-dollar AI behemoth on safety grounds, accusing it and rival OpenAI of “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. Jacob Coxon, who spent three years working on AI model training across Anthropic and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, said on Wednesday that neither company was “acting responsibly” as [...]
Former Deepmind star lands $1.1bn backing for AI startup Tech An ex-Google DeepMind researcher has secured one of Europe’s largest AI funding rounds, as investors race to back a new generation of frontier labs beyond large language models (LLMs). David Silver has raised $1.1bn (£880m) for his London-based startup Ineffable Intelligence at a valuation of $5.1bn, in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed [...]