Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon reported the jailbreaks to the Department of Commerce, who instituted the ban

Musk became Donald Trump's #1 political donor, assumed a high-profile role early in his administration, and in that role inflicted incredible harm on some of the most vulnerable people in the world while failing to achieve any of his stated goals. slowboring.com/p/yes-doge-fa…

❗️ Commerce’s shocking decree this afternoon – which effectively shuts down Anthropic by cutting off access to many of their own employees — seems both wildly overdramatic and also counterproductive for the US AI industry. I concur with @deanwball that the decision feels heavy-handed. Perhaps it does China a favor, though. Certainly every Chinese person working in a US AI company (and there are many) will consider returning to the competition in China ASAP. And investors will start to wonder whether American AI companies can thrive in this atmosphere. If you want an example of an AI regulation that can stifle innovation, this is it.

I don’t think people understand how the dominant journalistic style, especially at places like the Guardian, has sounded very much like LLMs well before they became a thing (after being trained on that very output), which means these tests are essentially useless in this context.

It will never not be funny to me that Texas is the Renewable Energy Capital of America

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The missile takes more than two years to build and relies on more than 400 companies before it is sent to conflict zones. on.wsj.com/49QZv57