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The world's most powerful AI runs on a method that is almost 180 years old.

In 1847 the French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy came up with gradient descent - a way to step down to the minimum of an error, one step at a time.

ChatGPT, Claude and every modern neural network use this very principle today.

Cauchy developed the method to calculate the orbits of celestial bodies. Now it trains artificial intelligence.

One in five Americans laid off because of AI has been offered their job back by their former employer. 🫥

North Carolina resident James Gates has sued OpenAI, claiming that ChatGPT "encouraged, planned and helped" his wife plan his poisoning.

The wife consulted the chatbot for months, which confirmed her fears about her husband and allegedly provided operational details: from calculating doses to anonymously purchasing substances and avoiding detection in a toxicology report.

The husband is seeking unspecified compensation for physical, emotional and financial harm and accuses OpenAI of negligence.

💸 Anthropic launched a beta version of Personal Finance in Claude.

The user can securely connect bank accounts and cards via Plaid and ask questions in their own words: where the money went this month, which payments are still due before payday, whether there are any double charges or hidden fees.

Claude can also build a spending chart, a payment calendar, or a dashboard.

Read-only access: Claude cannot transfer or invest money, does not see the bank password, and chats in this section are not used for training models.

The app has no ads or sponsored recommendations. The beta starts this week for Pro, Max and Ultra plans, for now only in the US.

Hackers "hijack" access to AI: bills reach $100,000 within minutes. Google warns of a growing new type of attack - LLMjacking.

Attackers steal API keys for language models and cloud credentials to run AI workloads at someone else's expense and sell access to others.

First, hackers look for open LLM endpoints or valid keys, and then, using stolen tokens (IAM, service account keys, GitHub PATs), they gain a foothold in the victim's infrastructure and escalate their privileges.

Those who use AI work up to 90 minutes longer each day: up to 9 hours versus 7.5 hours for others, according to an ActivTrak study of 9,000 employees. Why this is happening remains unclear.

Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that alters live video in near real time: AI agents cut or replace individual words of a speaker, and the speaker's face and mouth movements are adjusted to the new text.

The changes follow preset parameters or the viewer's profile, and the video and audio before and after the changed word are edited for "smooth transitions".

The system can be applied to lectures, presentations, TV shows and sports broadcasts.

Anthropic warns it is approaching RSI - AI that improves itself.

In its filing for the exchange (S-1/A) the company wrote that it may soon reach an important threshold: the point where AI substantially speeds up the development of new AI.

No model has reached that threshold yet.

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The release of Anthropic's Mythos 5.5 model is getting close. The company has already started preparing its website for it.

Spotify plans to launch a service in early 2027 that lets users create their own AI remixes and covers of popular songs. The company is considering an extra fee of $4-5 a month.

A folk song could be turned into a dance track, for example, or one artist could "sing" another artist's song.