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Anthropic CEO Amodei admits "there's a huge uncertainty in what's going to happen next year" days before a record IPO

Days before what could be the largest IPO in history, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called buying compute 'the deepest business dilemma' his company faces. Anthropic's commitments now total nearly $901 billion, and it's still far from clear whether future revenue will justify those…

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

Gemini 4 Carbon takes the MathArena crown but costs 15 times more than GPT-6.1 Sol

For the first time in a while, no OpenAI model leads the MathArena AI math benchmark. Google's Gemini 4 Carbon and Anthropic's Fable 5.2 have knocked GPT-6.1 Sol from the top, though both cost significantly more. Gemini ignored the time limit in testing and almost never gave up…

Anthropic says outdated prompting habits are slowing down Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic has made Claude Opus 5.5 the default model on all paid plans and published a guide that does away with old prompting habits. The main takeaway is to drop "think hard" and start at Medium effort. The article Anthropic says outdated prompting habits are slowing down…

Beware the New AI-Fueled Ransomware Boom

Fully automated ransomware hasn’t arrived—yet. But seemingly unsophisticated attackers are using AI tools to wreak havoc.

Anthropic can already retrain Mythos with "a fraction of the compute originally needed," says former researcher Coxon

Former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon points to a slide from Anthropic's IPO roadshow as a reason he left, saying it shows the company's algorithms are improving not just quickly but at an accelerating rate. Coxon continues to call for a pause on frontier model…

No Pilots. Few Air Traffic Controllers. What Could Go Wrong?

Normally, aviation is slow to embrace new technology—but AI has come for the skies.

‘It’s like the wild west’: how AI has rocked the literary world

With authors losing lucrative deals and writers removed from prize shortlists, accusations of AI use are sending shock waves through the publishing industry. Is it too late to turn the tide on machine writing? T he romance novelist Coral Hart got her break writing books for…

Microsoft says services fully restored after day-long global outage

Efforts to address the underlying problem with Outlook, Teams and Copilot are complete, the tech firm says.

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FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace

The US government has expanded the use of an AI tool for advising air traffic controllers to assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system. Airline executives have voiced support for the rollout, but the US labor union representing air traffic…

ChatGPT Wallet lets OpenAI’s Dots agents make purchases for you

After launching its Dots AI agents platform earlier this year, OpenAI is launching a wallet for the agents. ChatGPT Wallet is rolling out starting today for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US aged 18 and older using a US billing address and "eligible US-issued American Express…

No AI Slop: A Manifesto

AI agent startup LangChain hits $3B valuation

LangChain now claims 7,000 customers of its model and platform agnostic agent management tool LangSmith.

Microsoft 365 Crawls Back to Life After a 24-Hour Outage

The company says a bad update—not a cyberattack or AI—caused its servers around the world to crash.

OpenAI rebuilt AI shopping from scratch with ChatGPT Wallet

OpenAI is taking a second shot at AI-powered shopping with ChatGPT Wallet after scrapping its first approach, Instant Checkout. Users register a card once and confirm each purchase through Face ID or a fingerprint, while actual card details stay hidden behind payment tokens.…

Banks bar Chinese and Hong Kong investors from Anthropic IPO over US export controls

Chinese investors are shut out of Anthropic's IPO, Bloomberg reports. Banks are rejecting buy orders from mainland China and Hong Kong, citing U.S. export control rules known as ITAR. Similar restrictions applied during SpaceX's IPO, and Anthropic's products aren't available in…

AI unlocks Gödel's notebooks, said to contain hundreds of proved theorems

XYBench: Helping with the problem behind the question

Anthropic's Claude for Manufacturing plugs AI directly into factory software to automate industrial workflows

Anthropic's new Claude for Manufacturing plugin connects the AI directly to Autodesk Fusion, Oracle NetSuite, and Infor. Its 17 specialized skills let the AI draft quotes, compare suppliers, and place backup orders when deliveries are delayed, all after human approval. The…

ChatGPT’s new Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out for you

ChatGPT Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out on users' behalf, starting with a limited rollout to U.S. Pro subscribers.

Why is Google cutting off Search from AI-free schools? Here are some theories

Introducing ChatGPT Wallet

Introducing ChatGPT Wallet, a secure way for agents in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and dots to complete purchases with user approval and existing card protections.