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🤖 Claude is building Claude
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🤖 Claude is building Claude.
🇨🇳 Huawei says China needs faster AI, not fear.
💀 Microsoft knew AI could hurt publishers.
💳 4 tools to sell, think, and schedule smarter.
🧠 Andrew Ng says we're looking for AI opportunities in the wrong places.
Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its AI research, up from just 1% in March. AI is increasingly helping build its own successor.
Claude also collaborated on over 90% of research work in August. Human researchers are no longer doing this alone.
Anthropic had around 30,000 AI agents working at any given time. That's a serious shift in how AI research gets done.
But Claude isn't fully autonomous yet. The real question is whether human oversight can keep up as AI takes on more research.
Would you trust AI to build better AI? |
Huawei's Eric Xu says Chinese AI models may not be powerful enough to experience the safety risks reported by U.S. labs.
His argument is simple: China needs to develop more advanced models to understand those risks firsthand.
Some Chinese researchers suspect U.S. calls to slow AI development could help protect America's lead. Safety is becoming part of the technology rivalry.
But Huawei admits it cannot produce enough AI computing equipment to meet China's demand. The ambition is there, but the hardware remains a bottleneck.
Newly unredacted court filings reveal that a Microsoft executive privately described AI scraping as an unprecedented theft of labor.
The lawsuit alleges OpenAI and Microsoft scraped copyrighted articles, bypassed paywalls, and removed copyright notices. These claims remain contested.
Microsoft's own data showed Copilot reduced clicks to The New York Times by up to 93% compared with traditional Bing search. AI gets the answers, while publishers lose potential traffic.
Here's the uncomfortable business problem. AI depends on original content, but its products could undermine the publishers creating it. Even Microsoft internally warned about this risk.
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Andrew Ng thinks much of the AI fear filling headlines is wrong. And he says a handful of AI companies actually benefit from it. He breaks down why automating 40% of a job doesn't mean replacing the worker, why universities are already two years behind, and why AI models are terrible for learning.
His biggest hiring test for 2026-27?
Can you actually build with AI, or do you just know how to use it?
He also reveals where he sees the biggest AI business opportunities in 2027.
🔁 ICYMI
🇺🇸 Trump rejected tougher AI rules, arguing that slowing development could give China an advantage. Read the AI regulation clash →
🤖 Anthropic wants AI labs to slow down and open their safety work to outside experts, with OpenAI planning to follow. See the slowdown plan →
👀 OpenAI appointed AI safety researcher Paul Christiano to its Foundation board, giving him a role in frontier model release oversight. Meet OpenAI's new watchdog →
⚠️ Sam Altman says AI fears are justified but wants the public to trust AI companies to regulate themselves. Read his trust argument →
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