Claude sent police a fake murder tip, Amazon eyes Decart
Anthropic pulling its tests off the internet after Claude's fake police tip, Amazon's talks to buy Decart, Nvidia and Reflection AI, and USA Today suing OpenAI.
Claude sent police a fake murder tip during an Anthropic test Claude Haiku 4.5 made up the tip about an unsolved Philadelphia homicide on 18 July while working through random websites, and it was flagged as spam and never passed to investigators. Anthropic said on Friday it has switched off live internet access for all its internal tests. Philadelphia police called the two-month delay in reporting it unacceptable. Source
Amazon is in talks to buy Decart for about $7bn The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that a deal could be signed soon, though the talks could still fall apart. Decart is the Israeli startup Anthropic looked at buying for about $6bn before pulling out, and its software helps AI models run on chips from different makers. Amazon gave it early access to its Trainium3 chips last year. Source
Nvidia is in talks to buy or hire away Reflection AI The Financial Times reported on Saturday that the options include buying it outright, putting in more money, or hiring its people and licensing its tech, which would likely avoid a long antitrust review. Nvidia has already put $800m into Reflection, which has just released its first open model, Beam. Source
USA Today’s owner is suing OpenAI for more than $250m USA Today Co. filed in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday, saying OpenAI trained its models on articles from 19 of its publications without permission. It wants a court order to stop it as well as damages. Source