A detailed forecast and recommendation for how the US, China and the rest of the world should navigate superintelligence.

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OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight.

We set out to build the first AI tutor to teach math and reading to kids ages 4-9. For AI to actually teach a five-year-old, pedagogy must be baked into the engineering. A child can't wait for a slow reply, can't read a chat interface, and can't unhear anything…

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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A practical field guide to escape Chat Control and reclaim your digital privacy: encrypted messaging, email, VPN, DNS, passwords, Linux, GrapheneOS, self-hosting. Free, open source, no tracking.

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