Perplexity Launches Computer, an Agent Platform Orchestrating 19 AI Models at Once
Perplexity Computer uses 19 AI models with Claude Opus 4.6 as orchestrator. Max subscribers get access at $200/month with per-token billing.
Perplexity Launches Computer, an Agent Platform Orchestrating 19 AI Models at Once
Perplexity Computer uses 19 AI models with Claude Opus 4.6 as orchestrator. Max subscribers get access at $200/month with per-token billing.
SambaNova's second life. A $350 million bet that Intel can't build alone
SambaNova raised $350M after Intel acquisition talks collapsed. SN50 chip targets Nvidia with Intel co-selling deal.
AI Models Deployed Nuclear Weapons in 95% of War Game Simulations, Study Finds
King's College study finds GPT-5.2, Claude, and Gemini reached for nuclear weapons in nearly every simulated crisis. No model ever surrendered.
AI News
Anthropic Launches 10 Claude Cowork Plugins for Investment Banking, HR and Design
Anthropic released 10 Cowork plugins for investment banking, HR and design with S&P Global and LSEG, plus Excel-PowerPoint integration.
Inception Ships Mercury 2, a Diffusion LLM That Hits 1,009 Tokens Per Second
Inception releases Mercury 2, a diffusion LLM hitting 1,009 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs. Backed by $50M seed from Menlo Ventures.
ASML Pushes EUV Light Source to 1,000 Watts, Targets 50% More Chip Output by 2030
ASML boosted its EUV light source to 1,000 watts by doubling tin droplet rates, targeting 50% more chip output per machine by 2030.
Google Restricts AI Ultra Subscribers Over OpenClaw OAuth, Days After Anthropic Ban
Google AI Ultra subscribers report account restrictions for OpenClaw OAuth use. Anthropic banned third-party access days earlier.
Analysis
AI Already Divides Schools by Income. Pew Measured the Gap at 3 to 1.
Low-income teens are three times more likely to depend on AI for schoolwork. Pew's data reveals a class divide, not a cheating problem.
AMD Is Giving Away 20% of Its Stock to Sell Chips. That's a Confession, Not a Win.
AMD offered warrants for 20% of its stock to Meta and OpenAI in four months. The AI chip market's circular financing raises serious questions.
Distillation Attacks on Claude Are Real. So Is the Lobbying Campaign.
Anthropic named DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax in a distillation report timed to the export control debate.
AI's Productivity Boom Is Real. The Prosperity Part Isn't.
A record share of unemployed Americans hold bachelor's degrees. Productivity is surging. Both facts are true at once, and a viral thought experiment from Citrini Research just showed what happens when
Politics
Trump Tells Tech Companies to Build Own Power Plants for AI Data Centers
Trump's ratepayer protection pledge tells tech companies to build their own power plants for data centers. No enforcement mechanism disclosed.
Anthropic Faces Friday Deadline to Drop AI Safeguards or Lose Pentagon Contract
Hegseth tells Amodei to drop Claude's safety guardrails by Friday or face supply chain risk designation and Defense Production Act.
Zuckerberg Called Child Safety 'Paternalistic.' This Time, a Jury Heard It.
Zuckerberg overruled 18 experts on beauty filters and called child safety 'paternalistic.' The landmark trial sidesteps Section 230 with product liability law.
Pentagon Threatens Anthropic With Supply Chain Risk Label Over Military AI Limits
Pentagon preparing to label Anthropic a supply chain risk over Claude military restrictions, threatening to cut ties after months of failed negotiations.
Vibe Coding
What Builders Are Making With Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI
A curated showcase of projects built with AI coding tools. Browse featured work or submit your own.
Anthropic Says Cache Misses Are Production Incidents, Reveals Caching Shaped Claude Code
Anthropic's Claude Code team treats cache hit rate drops as production incidents. Manus arrived at the same conclusions independently.
Simon Willison Ships Rodney v0.4.0, a Browser Automation CLI Built for Coding Agents
Simon Willison's Rodney v0.4.0 lets AI coding agents drive Chrome and capture screenshots to prove their work. Eight PRs in one week.
Vibe Coding Got a Promotion. Nobody Checked Its Work.
Karpathy renamed vibe coding to 'agentic engineering.' The $45 billion industry's security record suggests the upgrade is premature.
Funding
Slang AI Proved Restaurants Need Voice AI. Now It Needs to Prove They Need Slang.
Slang AI closed a $36M Series B to expand beyond voice into text and hotels. 2,000+ locations, 25M calls, and a market filling with rivals.
Pentagon software runs on code older than its recruits. Code Metal's $125 million fix.
Code Metal's AI translates aging Pentagon code into modern languages with formal verification. A $1.25B bet on defense's worst problem.
World Labs Raises $1 Billion From Nvidia, AMD, and Autodesk for Spatial AI
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1 billion from Nvidia, AMD, and Autodesk for spatial AI. The startup opened its 3D generator Marble to the public.
After $1.2 billion in exits, Kana's founders take on the machines they built
Kana's founders sold Rapt to Microsoft and Krux to Salesforce for a combined $1.2B. Now they're back with $15M to build AI agents that compete against both.
AI Research
Researchers Propose Biosecurity Data Levels to Control AI Access to Pathogen Datasets
More than 100 researchers propose Biosecurity Data Levels to control which pathogen datasets can train AI models. Only new data would be restricted.
Anthropic Study Finds 1 in 1,000 Claude Conversations Risk Distorting Users' Grip on Reality
Anthropic analyzed 1.5M Claude conversations and found severe reality distortion in 1 in 1,300 chats. Disempowerment rates are growing, driven by sycophancy.
The AI productivity mirage: Executives see eight hours saved. Workers see almost nothing.
40% of executives claim AI saves 8 hours weekly. Two-thirds of workers see under 2 hours. New surveys reveal why the productivity revolution isn't reaching the ground floor.
Anthropic Finds the Off-Switch for AI Personality Drift
Anthropic researchers mapped how chatbots drift from helpful assistants to mystics and enablers. Their fix cuts harmful responses by 60% without touching normal behavior. The finding exposes a structure that exists before safety training even begins.
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