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View More NewsIn brief Anthropic researchers analyzed more than 309,000 Claude conversations to study how the AI expresses values. The company said it reduced more than 3,300 identified values into four behavioral dimensions, including deference vs caution and warmth vs rigor. Anthropic said Claude’s responses varied across both model versions and languages. Claude doesn’t behave the same way in every conversation. According to new research published Monday, AI giant Anthropic found its assistant consistently expresses different values depending on both the model users choose and the language they speak.In a report published on Monday, Anthropic researchers analyzed 309,815 anonymized user conversations with…
Bitcoin (BTC) fell further into Monday’s Wall Street open as markets reacted to the US-Iran escalation.Key points:Bitcoin falls toward $62,000 as losses intensify on nerves over the US-Iran war.Donald Trump says that the US should “run” the Strait of Hormuz as a tug-of-war with Iran continues.BTC price action is described as “very weak”, but a $70,000 rebound prediction remains in place.Oil rises amid “aggressive” BTC shortingData from TradingView showed BTC/USD edging closer to $62,000 amid what a trader described as “massive” short trading.BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewUS stocks were broadly in the red at the open, with the Nasdaq Composite…
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Every four years the world gathers to remind Americans that soccer is boring. The World Cup arrives, a billion people weep with joy, and everyone who wasn’t indoctrinated before the age of six sits there waiting for something…anything to happen. Then suddenly it almost does. Then just as quickly it doesn’t. Then it almost does again. This is the rhythm of the world’s most boring game.It’s “the beautiful game,” and for most of my adult life I’ve been patiently informed, usually by someone who calls it fútbol, that I simply lack the sophistication to appreciate it. But they’re wrong. Soccer…
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