The seven most shambolic things that happened in AI today.

No time today to cover all this in depth, and I might have missed one, but make sure to check out:

1. The dramatic, hubris-fueled, hyper-leveraged downfall of Leopold Aschenbrenner’s high-flying hedge fund Situational Awareness. You can read the NYT coverage here, or this short summary that appeared on X:.
2. The U.S. government shared a map of Africa that mislabeled every single country, spotted by :
3. Bonus: Reuters further reports that “the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that ⁠signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company said it was investigating the report.”
4. OpenAI was driven by competition to drop its prices by 80%. Who needs margins anyway?
5. Anthropic? They had a little cybersecurity oopsie of their own
6. MIT Technology Review reported new, disturbing adventures in jailbreaking:
7. and a large team of others reported that AI scientists still aren’t really up to scratch, especially when it comes to open-ended research:Who knows what tomorrow will bring.Subscribe now