MARK SULLIVAN

Mark Sullivan is a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Before coming to Fast Company in January 2016, Sullivan wrote for VentureBeat, Light Reading, CNET, Wired, and PCWorld
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Why AI labs are betting big on AI coding

Leading companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google aren’t just chasing immediate enterprise software revenue; they see AI-generated code as the ultimate fast track to achieving AGI.
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Anthropic releases a version of its vaunted Mythos model to developers

This version of Mythos excels at long, complex tasks, but passes on questions about risky things like cybersecurity or biology.

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Why Meta’s new AI agents could make sense for small businesses

The agents may also help explain why the social media giant is spending billions to quickly develop frontier AI models.
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AI’s reality check has finally arrived

From data center backlash and new state regulations to shaky ROI and failed enterprise tools, the industry is entering a more skeptical phase.
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Google DeepMind’s Tulsee Doshi says AI’s next phase depends on user trust

The search giant seems to be integrating new DeepMind models at all levels of the company and its products.
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Google’s AI strategy is finally coming into focus

The search giant no longer just ‘organizes the world’s information.’ With Gemini, it wants AI to reason over that information and increasingly operate on the user’s behalf.
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Small businesses should be a much bigger part of the ‘AI transformation’ conversation

Surveys show adoption is rising fast, but most small business owners are still scratching the surface of what AI can do for them.
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The AI industry’s massive bet on transformer models may not be enough for true AGI

As Big Tech pours unprecedented resources into scaling large language models, critics argue that transformer-based systems face fundamental limitations.
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AI anxiety is turning volatile

After a Molotov attack on Sam Altman’s home and threats against OpenAI, a fringe but intensifying strain of AI fear is spilling into the real world.
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Did Anthropic just soft-launch the scariest AI model yet?

The company’s Claude Mythos Preview model is remarkably good at harming or hijacking other systems. Anthropic’s first application of the model is in a defensive cybersecurity role.

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