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August

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Record3 events
  1. 4
    PeopleAnthropic / Tino Cuéllar / Daniela Amodei

    Tino Cuéllar becomes Anthropic's first Chief Global Affairs Officer

    Anthropic announced that Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar would join as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer, overseeing policy, international engagement, and government relationships worldwide. Cuéllar had been president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, served as a justice of the California Supreme Court ruling on technology, privacy, and constitutional questions, and led Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Cyber Initiative. He held posts in three presidential administrations, including the President's Intelligence Advisory Board and the State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board, and co-led California's Frontier AI Working Group. He had been a trustee of Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, moving from that role into the company. The new position was created at a moment when Anthropic was simultaneously in conflict with the federal government and expanding abroad.

  2. 5
    PeopleGoogle / Demis Hassabis / Jeff Dean / Koray Kavukcuoglu

    Hassabis steps aside as DeepMind CEO and Jeff Dean leaves Google

    Google announced a major reorganization of its AI leadership. Demis Hassabis stepped down as CEO of Google DeepMind to become its Chair and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, with Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over as SVP of Google DeepMind, reporting directly to Sundar Pichai and overseeing Gemini model development, frontier research, and the Gemini app and developer teams. Kavukcuoglu had been at DeepMind for 13 years since its early days, where he started the deep learning team and led work including WaveNet and DQN. At the same time Jeff Dean, who had led Google Brain and served as chief scientist of Google DeepMind, left the company to co-found Discovery Loop, a Google-backed AI science startup. The two figures who embodied the lineages begun with DeepMind's founding in 2010 and Google Brain's in 2011 stepped back at once. Alphabet shares fell about 4%.

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    ProductAnthropic

    Anthropic loosens Fable 5's biology safeguards after over-blocking

    Anthropic said it had refined Claude Fable 5's biology safety classifiers to substantially cut false positives, reducing biology-related fallbacks to a weaker model by about 85%. Healthcare professionals seeking clinical support, students and teachers studying biology, and people trying to interpret lab results or symptoms could now use Fable 5 across a wider range of legitimate tasks. The company noted that "it's often difficult to tell apart beneficial and harmful uses of AI in biology" and said it had launched Fable 5 with deliberately restrictive controls, knowing this would frustrate legitimate researchers. Blocks on dual-use research in virology, toxicology, and molecular design remained, with advanced capability routed to researchers through trusted access programs. It was a case of publicly measuring an overshoot and loosening a safeguard, rather than only tightening one.

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