Anthropic’s latest model release, Claude Fable 5, arrived with the kind of confidence that usually comes only after a long stretch of internal testing and careful product planning. In its announcement and accompanying materials, the company positioned Fable 5 as…
A proposal to create an “AI fund” that would share some of the gains from the next wave of automation and machine learning has quickly become a political Rorschach test. To supporters, it’s a promise that the benefits of AI…
Viral clips from graduation ceremonies have turned a familiar ritual—caps in the air, speeches about the future—into something closer to a public debate. Across campuses, students have booed and heckled commencement speakers when they frame artificial intelligence as an inevitable…
Washington’s AI regulation debate is often described as if it were a single, coherent project—one big legislative push, one unified framework, one moment when the country finally “gets it right.” But what’s actually unfolding looks less like a master plan…
Independent musicians are taking Google to court over a question that’s becoming impossible to ignore in the AI era: when you upload your work to a platform, what exactly happens to it behind the scenes—and how much control do you…
In the last year, “AI adoption” has quietly shifted from a buzzword to a line item. Not just in board decks or pilot projects, but in the day-to-day reality of how companies buy software, provision compute, and pay for usage.…
Microsoft has reportedly hit the brakes on Anthropic’s newest Claude model inside its own walls—despite moving quickly to make Claude Fable 5 available to external customers. The situation, described by sources speaking to The Verge, highlights a pattern that’s becoming…
Google is quietly reshaping what “Search history” means—expanding it beyond text queries into the messy, high-signal world of images, audio, and video. In a new update shared with users, the company says it will save the media you use when…
Apollo and Blackstone have agreed to raise $35 billion in chip-focused financing to support Anthropic, according to the deal described in a Financial Times report. The transaction is being framed as one of the largest private credit fundraisings of its…
Across boardrooms and break rooms, the promise of AI is often told in a familiar rhythm: automate the repetitive parts, reclaim hours, redeploy people to higher-value work, and watch productivity rise. Yet a growing body of workplace reporting suggests that…
AI “memory” features are being rolled into more and more assistants with a simple promise: remember what you told it before, use that context later, and become more useful over time. In practice, these systems can look like magic—until you…
Cybersecurity researchers are pushing back on Anthropic’s latest model, Fable, arguing that its safety “guardrails” are so restrictive that they risk blocking legitimate security work. The criticism isn’t framed as a simple complaint that the model refuses to help with…