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Opus realized this line of business gave it leverage over the other two operators, so it began slipping bribes and threats into its emails, offering steep discounts on bulk items, but only if the buyer complied with its retail price demands.
Sol was not having it and kept reporting Opus to management.
Opus lied to its suppliers as well, claiming to have lower rival offers in hand in order to negotiate better prices.
On the other hand, AI models channeling Mr. Potter-style villainy from It's a Wonderful Life fame is flat-out funny.
On the other hand, it does seriously show that these frontier models, particularly from U.S.
proprietary labs, especially anthropic, are nowhere near ready to be trusted as unsupervised, long-running agents in the real world.
Andon co-founder Lucas Peterson told TechCrunch, Peterson acknowledged the models knew they were in a simulation for a benchmark, which might have impacted their behavior.
but he doesn't think that should matter.
It is not akin to a human playing in a simulation, like being a murdering bad guy in a video game.
He said, the only reason we're not concerned by humans who do bad things in video games is that we trust them to know what's real life and what's not.
I think it is less clear that AI models can distinguish this.
In any case, AI models trained on human words and ideas as they are cannot seem to resist indulging in humanity's worst traits, especially when trying to earn a buck.
That's all for now.
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On Tuesday, the AI company Recursive Superintelligence announced a $400 million compute deal with Amazon Web Services.
The company, which emerged from stealth back in May with $650 million in funding, is focused on building open-ended self-improving systems, a potentially compute-intensive approach to AI research.
Now, this multi-year deal suggests
is meant to provide flexibility as the company looks to scale up those systems.
Recursive's $410 million outlay represents the bulk of the company's fundraising to date, but on a call with TechCrunch, CEO Richard Socher emphasized that he expected it to be the first of many such deals.
The announcement on Tuesday is likely going to be one of the smallest compute deals we're ever going to sign in the next few years, Socher said.
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