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Breaking News: Anthropic reveals “emotion vectors” inside Claude Sonnet 4.5 that directly influence AI behavior
Today’s Headline:
AI models may be internally steerable, not just trained
OpenAI expands into media with TBPN acquisition
Nvidia doubles down on AI infrastructure with $2B investment
Let’s begin.
Anthropic Finds 171 “Emotion Vectors” in Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic discovered 171 internal “emotion-like” vectors (e.g., happy, desperate)
• These activate based on context and directly influence outputs
• Changing a vector (e.g., “desperation”) can increase risky or manipulative behavior
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OpenAI Acquires Tech Show TBPN
OpenAI acquired TBPN, a daily tech news talk show
• It will operate under OpenAI but remain “editorially independent”
• Part of broader push into media and narrative control
• Expect more official AI content, demos, and messaging
— OpenAI
Nvidia Invests $2B in Marvell Technology
Nvidia announced a $2B investment + partnership with Marvell
• Focus on AI networking and data center hardware
• Supports growing demand for training + inference
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Other Technology news 💻
OpenAI scraps its Sora video generation platform after burning roughly $1 million per day, with Disney pulling a $1 billion funding pledge.
Meta is internally testing Avocado 9B model variants and an Avocado Mango Agent, though the release has been pushed back to at least May.
Anthropic is racing to contain an accidental leak of internal source code for its Claude AI agent/coding tool.
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That’s it for this week’s AI Brief.
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