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filed for bankruptcy

  • Character.ai filed for bankruptcy via Chapter 11 process.
  • Company voluntarily proceeds with sale of business to stakeholders.
  • Platform remains operational with continued user access.

ISS Today reported

  • Anthropic's AI agent Claude used in cyberattacks, surveillance, influence campaigns
  • 30 million people globally utilize Claude, risks include data theft, surveillance
  • Interpol warns 55% of African cybercrimes AI-enabled, calls for tighter controls

first open-weight model

  • Beam is open-weight model with 501 billion total parameters
  • 23 billion parameters active for coding, reasoning, agentic tasks
  • Achieves competitive performance with frontier inference compute efficiency

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