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Anthropic Says It's Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order
1+ week, 4+ day ago (400+ words) Anthropic says it's disabling two AI models it launched earlier this week, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, to comply with an export control directive it received Friday afternoon from the US government citing national security concerns. The unprecedented incident marks the…...
Tell Him He's a Piece of Shit': Meta's New AI Unit Is a Total Mess
1+ week, 4+ day ago (767+ words) Someone interrupted a livestreamed, employee-only presentation at Meta earlier this week with an expletive-filled outburst about "being the company's bitch," according to a recording heard by WIRED. The individual then asked the people leading the call to write to a…...
Meet the Open AI Engineer Leading Chat GPT's Biggest Transformation Yet
1+ week, 5+ day ago (876+ words) Open AI is in the midst of overhauling Chat GPT. The goal is to transform the chatbot's simple interface into a personalized AI agent that can handle tasks in every facet of your personal and professional life. The company has…...
Signal Alums Reveal "Encrypted Spaces," a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
1+ week, 6+ day ago (433+ words) Among the cryptographers working on the project is Trevor Perrin, the cocreator of the Signal protocol, the open-source encrypted messaging system used not only in the hundred-million-plus phones with Signal installed but also in the billions of devices that use…...
Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have "Sabotaged" AI Researchers Using Claude
1+ week, 6+ day ago (275+ words) Anthropic is backtracking on a policy that would have covertly limited competitors from using its new AI model, Claude Fable 5, to develop other AI models. The company changed course after the move received significant backlash from the AI research community....
Anthropic Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a "Safe" Version for the Rest of You
2+ week, 1+ day ago (321+ words) Anthropic is currently only releasing Claude Mythos 5 to a limited set of industry partners, many of which received access to Mythos Preview, and the company says it is collaborating with the US government on the rollout. In an interview with…...
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
2+ week, 2+ day ago (384+ words) One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version's code. The most recent…...
Apple WWDC 2026 Live Blog: All the Updates, as They Happen
2+ week, 2+ day ago (183+ words) Follow our WWDC 2026 live blog for all of the updates coming to i OS, mac OS, watch OS, and more. Apple's annual software event, the Worldwide Developer Conference, is back. The WWDC26 keynote will begin at 10 am Pacific, 1 pm Eastern, and…...
Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?
2+ week, 5+ day ago (780+ words) This week, Satya Nadella kicked off Microsoft's annual Build developer's conference with typical boasts about new products and a sunny view of AI. The focus of his speech was how Microsoft was going gaga for agentic AI. But there was…...
New Moms Are Returning to Coding Jobs Radically Reshaped by AI
3+ week, 6+ day ago (723+ words) As Danielle settled into the rhythms of new motherhood, her profession underwent a drastic reinvention. The world's largest AI companies anticipate a future where pretty much everything is "vibe-coded." In April, Mark Zuckerberg predicted that AI will write most of…...