Anthropic says its Claude AI will resort to blackmail in ‘84% of rollouts’ while an independent AI safety researcher also notes it ‘engages in strategic deception more than any other frontier model that we have previously studied’

Rogue chatbots resorting to blackmail and pondering consciousness? It has to be clickbait, right? Actually, no. One of the leading organisations in LLMs or large language models, Anthropic, has published a safety report covering its latest model, Claude Opus 4, and one of the more eye-popping subsections is titled, “Opportunistic blackmail” and explains how the…

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‘We’ll call you back’: BioWare’s first impression of The Witcher 1 was a bad demo, followed by CDPR declaring that they wanted to ‘create the best RPG game ever’

There’s no worse feeling than going into a presentation and only being made aware of how underprepared you are after you’ve finished. I’ve felt that pit in my stomach a few times, but knowing that the CEO and studio head of CD Projekt Red has experienced this same kind of nightmare fills me with at…

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This hacking sim is like if Uplink was more of a puzzle game, and if you live for snooping through other people’s emails you’re going to be well-served

You ever wonder if shadowy international terrorist organisations have HR departments? They’ve got to, right? Surely someone in the Red Army Faction made an off-colour joke at a meeting that made everyone uncomfortable at least once? This is what I ask myself as I tap away at Cyber Warrior, a crime-busting hacking sim from Dunke…

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The voice actor for FF14’s Alphinaud finally reaches Heavensward, sees his own work after 10 years in all its ‘jumpscare’ glory

Colin Ryan, the English voice actor of Final Fantasy 14‘s Alphinaud, seems completely inseparable from the character now that I’ve spent several expansions with my lad. So inseparable, in fact, that it’s easy to forget the character was initially voiced by Sam Riegel for its launch storyline, A Realm Reborn. When Heavensward launched, Square Enix…

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