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Google announced that publishers will soon be able to opt their websites out of AI Overviews and AI Mode through a new Search Console control. Continue Reading →

Microsoft got into the Corporate Claw business yesterday by announcing Scout: a personal AI assistant built on the OpenClaw framework and connected to Microsoft 365. Continue Reading →

Anthropic announced that it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement to the U.S. SEC for a proposed initial public offering (IPO). Continue Reading →

I recently watched a board chair say "good question, moving on" three times in ninety minutes. Each time, the room exhaled. The question had been acknowledged. Nobody had to answer it. That evening, I put the same three questions to my AI Board of Directors. It asked several follow-up questions I had not anticipated. Two of them changed my mind about the underlying decision. Continue Reading →

Anthropic yesterday released Claude Opus 4.8, which the company calls it "a modest but tangible improvement" over Opus 4.7. When a vendor undersells its own launch, pay attention to which number it is quietly proud of. Continue Reading →

Amazon Web Services just announced the Agentic Shopping Assistant (ASA): a packaged version of the technology behind Amazon's own shopping assistant, now offered to other retailers. The service lets competitors launch their own AI shopping assistants in about 60 days using Amazon's architecture, starter code, and AWS engineers. Continue Reading →

Researchers at X41 D-Sec disclosed "BadHost," a critical vulnerability in Starlette, the open-source Python framework embedded into roughly 325 million new software builds every week. If your enterprise has stood up an AI agent in the last 18 months, some part of the stack runs on Starlette. Continue Reading →

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich launched a website this week asking Americans to report data center concerns in their communities. She's positioning herself as the voice against AI infrastructure expansion across the United States. Continue Reading →

Happy Towel Day! Today is an annual tribute to the life and work of Douglas Adams generally celebrated by fans around the universe by carrying a towel in his honor. I, for one, will be carrying a towel with me all day today. According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a towel is "about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have." Continue Reading →

The President was supposed to sign an executive order creating a voluntary federal review process for frontier AI systems. Then, hours before the ceremony, he pulled the plug. Continue Reading →