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By Wren Kowalski

Anthropic's Core Safety Pledge Now Optional, Company Says 'Competitive Pressure Is The New Reality'

SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic, the Silicon Valley darling that once promised to halt model development if safety procedures outpaced innovation, has officially dropped its flagship safety commitment. The company now describes this decision as “strategic optimization” while simultaneously running full-scale ad campaigns to remind you that their chatbots have a “higher duty of care.”

The Responsible Scaling Policy Version 3.0 was announced Tuesday, effectively removing the company’s previous guarantee that it would pause model releases if safety protocols couldn’t keep up with deployment timelines. “We’ve learned that safety-first isn’t a business model, it’s a competitive disadvantage,” said Daniel Rockmore, Anthropic’s VP of Strategy, who later was photographed wearing a $42 safety-conscious t-shirt that reads “I Pause For Safety” while standing next to a banner announcing the policy change.

By Mary Yan

Federal Reserve's New AI Model 'Predicts' Rate Cuts Before They Happen, Raising Existential Questions About Central Bank Free Will

WASHINGTON — In an unprecedented display of self-fulfilling prophecy engineering, the Federal Reserve has unveiled a new machine learning algorithm capable of predicting interest rate decisions before they are announced.

The system, codenamed “Forward Guidance Pro 3.0” by the Fed’s Office of Technology and Analytics, reportedly predicts Fed policy moves by analyzing the micro-expressions of Jerome Powell during press conferences, the thermal signature of his coffee cup, and the collective anxiety levels of Wall Street traders as measured by their thumb movements on smartphones.