Is Something Big Happening?, AI Safety Apocalypse, Anthropic Raises $30 Billion
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Is something big happening in AI as the models get better fast? AI Safety Apocalypse is here with concerning developments across the board, and Anthropic just raised $30 billion. That's coming up on a Big Technology Podcast Friday edition right after this. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast Friday edition. where we break down the news in our traditional, cool-headed and nuanced format.
Something big is happening in AI. That's what we're going to talk about at the beginning of the show as we dissect the viral Matt Schumer essay that's freaked a lot of people out and also had a lot of people saying, finally, now somebody's finally written it in a way that everybody else will understand. So We'll dissect that. We'll also talk a lot about what's happening in AI safety.
Seemingly as the models get better, the safeguards have started to roll back. And then of course, Anthropic raised a historic $30 billion round, which somehow is the last story we'll cover today. Okay, so joining us as always on Friday is Ron John Roy of Margins. Ronjohn, welcome. Good to see you, Alex.
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