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Anthropic just announced that Claude Code, its command-line coding assistant, is now bundled with Team and Enterprise plans. The announcement includes the predictable enterprise features: administrative controls, usage analytics, spend limits, and a new Compliance API for audit trails. Continue Reading →
Meta rolled out AI voice translation for Reels on Instagram and Facebook. The tool dubs spoken audio between English and Spanish, preserves the creator’s voice, and can optionally lip-sync to match mouth movements. Translated reels are labeled and surfaced in a viewer’s preferred language. The feature is rolling out globally where Meta AI is available. Continue Reading →
Grammarly just announced that its new AI agent can “predict whether a piece of writing will receive an A.” The tool, called AI Grader, is part of a new set of agents that the company is rolling out this fall. By analyzing assignment instructions, grading rubrics, and available information about the instructor, the system estimates whether a paper would earn an A. Grammarly claims it has trained this model on millions of writing samples that included instructor feedback. Continue Reading →

Five Days with GPT-5

Sad about GPT-5
Five days ago, I published "Five Hours with GPT-5," calling OpenAI's latest model "impressive." I was wrong. After living with GPT-5 for more than a week, my user experience tells a different story than the initial benchmarks. I'm not alone. Continue Reading →
ChatGPT head Nick Turley just admitted what every tech executive already knows: even 700 million weekly active users can't make the math work without ads. In an interview on Decoder, Turley said he's "humble enough not to rule it out categorically," though he hedged that OpenAI would need to be "very thoughtful and tasteful" about how ads could be integrated into ChatGPT. Continue Reading →
While I was in Las Vegas yesterday doing a keynote about AI at eBay's Open 25 conference, Geoffrey Hinton was across town at the Ai4 conference with a far more pessimistic view of the future. The Nobel Prize-winning "godfather of AI" didn't just repeat his warnings about superintelligent AI wiping out humanity (though he's still giving us 10-20% odds), he proposed something far stranger: we need to give AI maternal instincts. Continue Reading →
On July 17, 2025, U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that three authors (Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson) can represent all U.S. writers whose works Anthropic allegedly downloaded from pirate libraries LibGen and PiLiMi. According to Reuters, Alsup said Anthropic may have illegally downloaded as many as seven million books, exposing the Amazon‑ and Alphabet‑backed startup to over a trillion dollars in damages. Continue Reading →
AOL Dial-up
On September 30, 2025, AOL will finally turn off dial-up internet service. The AOL Dialer and AOL Shield Browser will go dark the same day. For millions of Americans, that distinctive screech of a modem handshake was the sound of the future arriving. Now the last of the original on-ramps is closing, and the highway it led to is unrecognizable. Continue Reading →

Five Hours with GPT-5

I’ve spent about five hours with GPT-5. Not the press release. Not the benchmark charts. The actual model. Long enough to move past the “wow” phase and into the “what’s really new here?” phase. Here’s what I noticed. Continue Reading →

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