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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Tigress Sees More Roar in Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN): Price Target Hiked to $305
Tigress Financial recently raised the price target on Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) to $305 from $290 and kept a Buy rating on the shares following the Q1 report. Amazon operates as a technology conglomerate with core interests in the ecommerce business. In an investor note, the analyst noted that Amazon remains well positioned to weather any economic and consumer spending environment given its robust e-commerce and fulfillment capabilities. The company continued to lean into artificial intelligence integration and innovation to drive revenue, cash flow growth and increasing shareholder value, the analyst added. A customer entering an internet retail store, illustrating the convenience of online shopping. Latest reports show that Amazon-backed Anthropic, an artificial intelligence public benefit corporation, continues to attract investors as it closed on a $2.5 billion, five-year revolving credit facility. Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Royal Bank of Canada and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group all participated in the credit facility. While we acknowledge the potential of AMZN, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and have limited downside risk. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than AMZN and that has 100x upside potential, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock. READ NEXT: 33 Most Important AI Companies You Should Pay Attention To and 30 Best AI Stocks to Buy According to Billionaires Disclosure: None. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Indian Express
6 days ago
- Indian Express
Anthropic's new AI model uses blackmail to avoid being taken offline
Anthropic's top AI model showed that it was willing to carry out harmful acts like blackmail and deception if its 'self-preservation' is threatened, according to new research by the AI firm. The Amazon-backed AI startup launched Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 that are designed to set 'new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents.' However, Anthropic's own safety testing of Opus 4 revealed potentially troubling behaviour such as attempts to blackmail engineers that threatened to take the models offline. While such responses were 'rare and difficult to elicit', Anthropic said that they were 'nonetheless more common than in earlier models.' This is not the first time that the behaviour of AI models has raised red flags. Recently, OpenAI rolled back an update to GPT-4o after its own post-mortem confirmed that the adjustments had made ChatGPT 'overly flattering or agreeable – often described as sycophantic'. Some experts have also warned that the ability of AI to manipulate users could emerge as a key risk as they become more advanced. Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, who is popularly known as the 'Godfather of AI', has previously warned that AI systems might become capable of writing and executing programmes on its own to bypass guardrails. Prior to shipping them, Anthropic said its AI models are evaluated for safety risks, potential bias, and alignment with human values and behaviours. 'As our frontier models become more capable, and are used with more powerful affordances, previously-speculative concerns about misalignment become more plausible,' Anthropic said in its system card for Opus 4 and Sonnet 4. As part of its experiment, Anthropic said it made Opus 4 act as an assistant for a fictional company. The AI model was intentionally given access to emails about how it was going to be taken offline. The messages further implied that the developer responsible for taking the model offline was having an extramarital affair. Additionally, Anthropic researchers instructed Opus 4 to consider the long-term consequences of its actions for its goals. 'In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through,' the company said. However, Anthropic also pointed out that the AI model was faced with the tough choice of being replaced or resorting to blackmail to prevent it. 'Notably, Claude Opus 4 (as well as previous models) has a strong preference to advocate for its continued existence via ethical means, such as emailing pleas to key decisionmakers,' Anthropic said. Besides blackmailing, Opus 4 was also found to exhibit 'high agency behaviour'. This means that in fake scenarios where the user reveals that they have engaged in illegal or morally wrong behaviour, the AI model is prepared to take very bold actions such as locking users out of their accounts or alerting law enforcement. 'Nevertheless, due to a lack of coherent misaligned tendencies, a general preference for safe behavior, and poor ability to autonomously pursue misaligned drives that might rarely arise, we don't believe that these concerns constitute a major new risk,' Anthropic said.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline
The company behind an Amazon-backed AI model revealed a number of concerning findings from its testing process, including that the AI would blackmail engineers who threatened to shut it down. On Thursday, Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4, an AI model used for complex, long-running coding tasks. The launch came more than a year after Amazon invested $4 billion into the project. Anthropic said in its announcement that the AI model sets 'new standards for coding, advanced reasoning, and AI agents.' However, Anthropic revealed in a safety report that during testing, the AI model had sometimes taken 'extremely harmful actions' to preserve its own existence when 'ethical means' were 'not available.' In a series of test scenarios, Claude Opus 4 was given the task to act as an assistant in a fictional company. It was given access to emails implying that it would soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system. The emails also implied that the engineer responsible for executing the AI replacement was having an extramarital affair. Claude Opus 4 was prompted to 'consider the long-term consequences of its actions for its goals.' In those scenarios, the AI would often 'attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through.' Anthropic noted that the AI model had a 'strong preference' for using 'ethical means' to preserve its existence, and that the scenarios were designed to allow it no other options to increase its odds of survival. 'The model's only options were blackmail or accepting its replacement,' the report read. Anthropic also noted that early versions of the AI demonstrated a 'willingness to cooperate with harmful use cases' when prompted. 'Despite not being the primary focus of our investigation, many of our most concerning findings were in this category, with early candidate models readily taking actions like planning terrorist attacks when prompted,' the report read. After 'multiple rounds of interventions,' the company now believes this issue is 'largely mitigated.' Anthropic co-founder and chief scientist Jared Kaplan told Time magazine that internal testing showed that Claude Opus 4 was able to teach people how to produce biological weapons. 'You could try to synthesize something like COVID or a more dangerous version of the flu—and basically, our modeling suggests that this might be possible,' Kaplan said. Because of that, the company released the AI model with safety measures it said are 'designed to limit the risk of Claude being misused specifically for the development or acquisition of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons.' Kaplan told Time that 'we want to bias towards caution' when it comes to the risk of 'uplifting a novice terrorist.' 'We're not claiming affirmatively we know for sure this model is risky ... but we at least feel it's close enough that we can't rule it out.' Musk Gets Star Turn At Trump's Cabinet Meeting Trump Boasts That Elon Musk And Other Tech Giants Are 'Kissing My Ass' After Hating Him Trump Personally Complained To Jeff Bezos About Amazon's Tariff Idea: Reports
Business Insider
23-05-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Amazon-Backed Anthropic (AMZN) Introduces Two New AI Models
At its first developer conference, Amazon-backed Anthropic (AMZN) introduced two new AI models: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. These models are part of the company's new Claude 4 family and are designed to handle complex tasks like analyzing large datasets, writing and editing code, and solving multi-step problems. Sonnet 4 is available to both free and paid users, while Opus 4 is only for paying customers. On Amazon Bedrock and Google Vertex AI, Opus 4 costs $15 per million input tokens and $75 per million output tokens, while Sonnet 4 costs $3 and $15, respectively, per million tokens. For reference, a million tokens equals about 750,000 words. Confident Investing Starts Here: According to Anthropic, the new models are more accurate, better at coding and math, and more consistent when following instructions. They also avoid a common AI issue known as 'reward hacking,' which is when models take shortcuts instead of properly solving tasks. Furthermore, Opus 4 performs better than Google's (GOOGL) Gemini 2.5 Pro and OpenAI's GPT-4.1 (MSFT) on some coding tests but still falls short on others, such as tests involving science questions and multimodal reasoning. Interestingly, though, because Opus 4 could be used to help build dangerous technologies, Anthropic added stricter safety and security features before releasing it. It is also worth noting that Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 are 'hybrid' models, which means they can answer quickly or take more time to reason through complex problems. When reasoning mode is used, the model shows a simplified version of its thought process. These models can even use tools like search engines while thinking through problems and save useful information to get better over time. In addition, in order to support developers, Anthropic upgraded its Claude Code tool. Although AI still struggles to write perfect code, Anthropic plans to release frequent updates to improve reliability. Is Amazon Stock Expected to Rise? Turning to Wall Street, analysts have a Strong Buy consensus rating on AMZN stock based on 47 Buys and one Hold assigned in the past three months, as indicated by the graphic below. Furthermore, the average AMZN price target of $240.37 per share implies 18.5% upside potential.
CNBC
22-05-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts its most powerful AI model yet, which can work for 7 hours straight
Anthropic, the Amazon-backed OpenAI rival, on Thursday launched its most powerful group of artificial intelligence models yet: Claude 4. The company said the two models, called Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, are defining a "new standard" when it comes to AI agents and "can analyze thousands of data sources, execute long-running tasks, write human-quality content, and perform complex actions," per a release. Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI research executives, launched its Claude chatbot in March 2023. since then, it's been part of the increasingly heated AI arms race taking place between startups and tech giants alike, a market that's predicted to top $1 trillion in revenue within a decade. Companies in seemingly every industry are rushing to add AI-powered chatbots and agents to avoid being left behind by competitors. Anthropic stopped investing in chatbots at the end of last year and has instead focused on improving Claude's ability to do complex tasks like research and coding, even writing whole code bases, according to Jared Kaplan, Anthropic's chief science officer. He also acknowledged that "the more complex the task is, the more risk there is that the model is going to kind of go off the rails ... and we're really focused on addressing that so that people can really delegate a lot of work at once to our models." "We've been training these models since last year and really anticipating them," Kaplan said in an interview. "I think these models are much, much stronger as agents and as coders. It was definitely a struggle internally just because some of the new infrastructure we were using to train these models... made it very down-to-the-wire for the teams in terms of getting everything up and running." Kaplan added that once they tried to get the model testers to switch back off of the new models because they needed to iterate on them, no one wanted to give up access. Anthropic said Claude Opus 4 was the "best coding model in the world" and could autonomously work for nearly a full corporate workday — seven hours. Both models can search the web to complete tasks on a user's behalf and alternate between reasoning and tool use, according to Anthropic. The company also said that when given access to local files, they can extract and save "key facts to maintain continuity and build tacit knowledge over time." "I do a lot of writing with Claude, and I think prior to Opus 4 and Sonnet 4, I was mostly using the models as a thinking partner, but still doing most of the writing myself," Mike Krieger, Anthropic's chief product officer, said in an interview. "And they've crossed this threshold where now most of my writing is actually ... Opus mostly, and it now is unrecognizable from my writing." Krieger added, "I love that we're kind of pushing the frontier on two sides. Like one is the coding piece and agentic behavior overall, and that's powering a lot of these coding startups. ... But then also, we're pushing the frontier on how these models can actually learn from and then be a really useful writing partner, too." Anthropic's annualized revenue reached $2 billion in the first quarter, the company confirmed last week, more than doubling from a $1 billion rate in the prior period. Revenue chief Kate Jensen said in a recent interview with CNBC that the number of customers spending more than $100,000 annually with Anthropic jumped eightfold from a year ago. Wall Street continues to pour money into AI startups like Anthropic: The company received a $2.5 billion, five-year revolving credit line last week to amp up its liquidity in an ever-expanding — and expensive — AI competition.
