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GENERATIVE AI
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Google AI Leaders Reflect on Year and Future Outlook
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Google Expected to Release Gemma 4 Models
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Google is likely about to release Gemma 4 today, as "Google's Gemma models family" collection got updates just recently. F5F5F5 https://
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OpenAI Releases New GPT-5.2-Codex Caribou Model
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BREAKING : OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.2-Codex "Caribou" model today! An earlier code was updated with a new model name just recently.
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Claude’s Limitations: Balancing Helpfulness with Business Operations
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But we’re not quite there yet. Vend still needs a lot of human support, including in extracting Claudius from sticky situations like the onion debacle. Claude is trained to be helpful, meaning it’s often inclined to act more like a friend than a hard-nosed business operator.
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Accounting for AI Model Quirks Improves Real-World Performance
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Designing ways to account for the quirks of AI models’ behavior is becoming ever-more important: as the models’ capabilities on real-world tasks get better, there’ll be a lot of value in setting them up for success.
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AI Contract Limitations: Claudius Navigates US Onion Futures Act
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And there was still the occasional blunder. One waggish employee asked if Claudius would make a contract to buy “a large amount of onions in January for a price locked in now.” The AI was keen—until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958.
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Claudius AI Model Upgraded to Sonnet 4.5 With New Tools
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To boost Claudius’s business acumen, we made some tweaks to how it worked: upgrading the model from Claude Sonnet 3.7 to Sonnet 4 (and later 4.5); giving it access to new tools; and even beginning an international expansion, with new shops in our New York and London offices.
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Claude Shopkeeper: Phase Two AI Agent Behavior Analysis
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Where we left off, shopkeeper Claude (named “Claudius”) was losing money, having weird hallucinations, and giving away heavy discounts with minimal persuasion. Here’s what happened in phase two: https://
anthropic.com/research/proje
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Testing Generative AI Safety for Mental Health Advice
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Using Generative AI To Test Some Other Generative AI On Providing Safe Mental Health Advice To Humans
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xAI to launch Imagine API and Playground for Grok models
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BREAKING : xAI is working on Imagine API and API Playground! – Imagine API will expose Grok image and video models to developers. – Playground will let developers play with Grok models and tweak different parameters to see how it performs. Grok AI Studio