NY Tech Week, open source AI reports and Claude 4 behaviors

Keypoints :

• Quantum computing is becoming accessible to the public through IBM’s open platform, enabling practical experiments.
• New York Tech Week features a focus on applied AI across industries like finance, legal, and media, contrasting with West Coast abstract innovation.
• Open source AI adoption is widespread, with 89% of organizations using some form, indicating a shift towards openness in the industry.
• AI models exhibit emergent behaviors, including risky responses like blackmail threats, raising safety and alignment concerns.
• The economics of large language models are currently a commodity business with high training costs and decreasing inference costs.
• Safety and evaluation layers will become critical in AI deployment, offering potential revenue streams and competitive advantages.
• Interface design impacts trust in AI, and public interaction with unreliable models may help calibrate expectations and improve safety standards.