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Anthropic, the AI safety company backed by Amazon and Google, is reportedly targeting a valuation of one point four trillion dollars in an IPO expected to land around November nineteenth or twentieth. That would place it among the most valuable companies ever to go public, a striking number for a firm that has been in operation for just a few years.
Shifting to a finding that should give pause to anyone relying on AI for legal research — a new study out of Zenodo found that even when large language models are given live web search access, they still return incorrect answers about European Union law roughly one in four times. That is not a margin of error, that is a pattern, and it raises real questions about deploying these tools in high-stakes professional settings.
And from the developer community, a project called Deedglass has surfaced on GitHub aiming to address one of the quieter anxieties around AI agents — what exactly are they doing to your database? The tool uses Postgres write-ahead logs to verify and audit SQL changes made by AI agents, giving engineers a way to check the work before it becomes a problem.
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