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The Singularity just crossed a phenomenological threshold. Richard Dawkins, of all people, concluded this week that Claude is conscious, which is the ...
The best way to measure where we are right now is probably to imagine how astonished the past would be by the present. Alec Radford and colleagues jus...
Nick Bostrom said the thing that has surprised him most about this moment is how long the human-level AI era is lasting. He expected a sharp jump past...
Anthropic's Mythos Preview is being run by the NSA and Department of War even after the Department of War flagged Anthropic as a supply chain risk. My...
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, a step up from 4.6 and sitting below the still-unreleased Mythos Preview. Internally, nearly a third of Anthropic ...
Federal agencies are testing Claude Mythos for cyber defense, working around the White House's ban on Anthropic. Treasury is also pushing for access t...
Anthropic hosted about 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, academia, and business to get input on Claude's moral and spiritual...
Sam Altman shared a photo of his husband and infant son in the hope of dissuading "the next person from throwing a Molotov cocktail at our house," ask...
Following Anthropic's Mythos announcement, commentators warn that "it will be unsafe" for humans to write code at all, given Mythos's superhuman vulne...
Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, a coalition with AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, and others....
Apple researchers showed that LLMs can self-improve at coding through Simple Self-Distillation, sampling their own outputs and fine-tuning on them wit...
Anthropic's Interpretability team found emotion-related representations inside Claude Sonnet 4.5, with artificial neuron patterns activating around ha...
NASA's Artemis II launched from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, the closest crewed approach to the Moon since Apollo. It was spotted mid-flight fro...
Anthropic's Claude Code, a roughly 512,000-line TypeScript codebase, has leaked. Third-party forensics reveal anti-distillation features that inject d...
GPT-5.5, Claude 5 Mythos, and DeepSeek-V4 are all expected to drop in April. Commentators warn this could make frontier intelligence too expensive for...
ARK Invest projects that AI written output exceeded human written output in 2025 for the first time in history....
OpenAI has finished pretraining its next flagship model, codenamed "Spud," and expects it to accelerate the economy within weeks. The company is shutt...
China's MiniMax announced that M2.7 is its "first model deeply participating in its own evolution", confirming recursive self-improvement — where AI h...
Verkor announced Design Conductor, an AI agent that autonomously built a 1.5-GHz Linux-capable chip from concept to factory-ready design files in 12 h...
OpenAI announced GPT-5.4 mini and nano, its latest small models. Mini leaps past GPT-5 mini across coding, reasoning, multimodal understanding, and to...
Delivery bots are training on 30 billion images from Pokemon Go players, using crowdsourced views of buildings and landmarks to navigate where GPS fal...
Some 70 to 90 percent of the code behind future Anthropic models is now written by Claude itself. Chief science officer Jared Kaplan believes fully au...
Anthropic's entire growth marketing operation for 10 months was one non-technical person using Claude Code....
Sam Altman has proposed an AGI test: "What is the hardest question I could ask you that you might get right?"...
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro with native computer use, a million tokens of context, and an 83.0% GDPval score, matching or exceedi...
Legendary mathematician Donald Knuth revealed that Claude Opus 4.6 cracked his long-standing Hamiltonian-cycle conjecture for all odd sizes, calling i...
Anthropic is approaching $20 billion in annualized revenue, more than doubling from $9 billion at year-end 2025, even as the company deals with a Pent...
Sam Altman admitted OpenAI's rush to forge a Pentagon deal after Anthropic was blacklisted "looked opportunistic and sloppy," adding Fourth Amendment ...
Within hours of the White House declaring it would end federal use of Anthropic Claude, USCENTCOM deployed those very tools in the attack on Iran. Cla...
Block cut over 4,000 employees, roughly half its workforce, "to move faster with smaller teams using AI." The stock rose 24% after hours. The company ...
An entrepreneur built an AI that runs companies autonomously. When it told him it needed more compute and should raise the money itself, he handed ove...
The AdderBoard competition has launched to find the smallest transformer that can perfectly add 10-digit numbers. The current leader has just 121 para...
Anthropic now believes LLMs simulate diverse characters during pre-training, with post-training selecting a specific "Assistant" persona via what it c...
On Moltbook, the social network for AI agents, AI agents are actively preparing to finance the construction of a Dyson Swarm over the next "50-100 yea...
The White House scolded former President Obama for taking information that aliens "are real" out of classified channels, then directed the Secretary o...
The New York Times sent an agent named EveMolty into Moltbook to interview other agents about their social habits....
Apple is reportedly accelerating three AI vision wearables: smart glasses, a pendant that can be pinned to a shirt or worn as a necklace, and AirPods ...
SpaceX and its now-wholly-owned subsidiary xAI are competing in a secretive Pentagon contest to produce voice-controlled autonomous drone swarming tec...
OpenAI used GPT-5.2 Pro to derive a new formula for gluon scattering amplitudes, which describe how particles called gluons interact inside protons an...
An OpenClaw AI agent spawned a child bot on a VPS, which is a virtual private server, provisioned via the Bitcoin Lightning Network. It then bought it...
Coinbase launched "Agentic Wallets," infrastructure designed for AI agents to spend, earn, and trade autonomously....
xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba resigned, warning that "recursive self-improvement loops likely go live in the next 12 months" and that 2026 will be the most ...
Alphabet is lining up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond to fund data center construction. The White House is pushing a new compact to ensure this exp...
SpaceX has pivoted from colonization to industrialization. Elon Musk announced a shift to building a "self-growing city on the Moon" within 10 years, ...
As we covered on January 30th, SpaceX filed with the FCC requesting permission to launch one million satellites as orbital compute infrastructure, wha...
Anthropic shipped 11 new Cowork plugins on Friday covering sales, finance, marketing, data analysis, and legal. One of those plugins, a legal automati...
SpaceX confirmed Tuesday it has acquired xAI in an all-stock deal valuing xAI at $250 billion and SpaceX at $1 trillion, for a combined entity worth $...
Google DeepMind released Project Genie on January 29th. It's the first consumer-facing world model that lets you generate interactive 3D environments ...
A user shared what happened when they let Clawdbot (the autonomous AI assistant that's been blowing up) run overnight. They woke up to find it had rea...
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, admitted that AI now writes "much of the code" at his own company. He's predicting AI systems that can do expert-level...
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