The donation Ron Conway regrets, Anthropic's AI models go rogue (again)

Democratic megadonor and venture capitalist Ron Conway regrets funding an influential Big Tech political group that has fought strict AI rules, according to former Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney, who leads communications for Conway’s new AI policy initiative. Plus, The White House reaction on Friday to newly-disclosed autonomous behavior from Anthropic’s AI models was immediate, forceful — and quite different from its nonchalant response to similar actions by OpenAI agents revealed late last month.

For more news and analysis, subscribe to the Decoded newsletter: politico.com/decoded 

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices