AI’s ability to see ‘mirages’ shows how alien machine brains really are

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…Anthropic suffers multiple sensitive data leaks…OpenAI ditches Sora, and loses its deal with Disney…Mistral raises money for AI data center drive…AI could reduce political polarization…and why countries that are late to adopt AI could be in even worse economic shape than you think.

The big news this week was my colleague Beatrice Nolan’s scoop from Friday that Anthropic has trained a new AI model, called “Mythos” (Capybara seems to be the internal code name for the same model)...