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‘Subliminal learning’: Anthropic uncovers how AI fine-tuning secretly teaches bad habits

July 31, 2025
A new study by Anthropic shows that language models might learn hidden characteristics during distillation, a popular method for fine-tuning models for special tasks. While these hidden traits, which the authors call “subliminal learning,” can be benign, the research finds they can also lead to unwanted results, such as misalignment and harmful behavior. What is subliminal…
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Acree opens up new enterprise-focused, customizable AI model AFM-4.5B trained on ‘clean, rigorously filtered data’

July 30, 2025
Arcee.ai, a startup focused on developing small AI models for commercial and enterprise use, is opening up its own AFM-4.5B model for limited free usage by small companies — posting the weights on Hugging Face and allowing enterprises that make less than $1.75 million in annual revenue to use it without charge under a custom “Acree Model License.“ Designed for real-world enterprise use, the…
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Anthropic throttles Claude rate limits, devs call foul

July 29, 2025
Anthropic announced today it would introduce weekly rate limits for Claude subscribers, claiming that some users have been running Claude 24/7, with the majority of usage centered around its Claude Code product. Overall weekly limits will begin on August 28 and will be in conjunction with the current 5-hour limits. Anthropic said the throttling will only affect 5% of its total users. Not…
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Why AI is making us lose our minds (and not in the way you’d think)

July 28, 2025
The world loves AI. Nearly 1 billion people are using OpenAI products – and it happened in just two years. It’s the Silicon Valley playbook: Make it great, make it cheap, get us addicted, then figure out how to make billions. We love AI Products  because it offers cognitive shortcuts at a whole new scale. But… this won’t end well for most of us. We’ll let AI take over a few tasks…
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