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Let the Movie Get Made

Particle 6 announced "Misaligned," the first feature film for Tilly Norwood, the AI "actor" that enraged Hollywood in late 2025 after reports that talent agencies were interested in representing her. Particle 6 calls it a coming-of-age comedy-drama "infused with existential AI chaos." It is in early development with no publicly announced director, additional cast, budget, or release date. Tilly is the computer-generated face of the fight over AI in creative work. Continue Reading →
AI at the Edge
Every AI strategy conversation I have eventually arrives at the same uncomfortable fact: the intelligence layer belongs to someone else. You can rent it, fine-tune it, wrap it, and govern it. You cannot own it. Today, a small cluster of frontier labs (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and a few well-funded challengers) control access to the best AI models. Let's imagine a world where that is no longer true. Continue Reading →
1776
For several years past, I have set forth diverse iterations of the "Hottest Tech Trends of 1776." In this present annum, I have revis'd the enumeration with the sage advisement of many amongst you, and with a modicum of assistance from the artificer Claude, Anthropic's engine of reason. Thus, for your reading pleasure in honor of our Day of Independence, I present to thee 27 most esteemed technological marvels circa 1776. Continue Reading →
Anthropic has released Claude Science, a research workbench that pulls the tools a scientist juggles all day (PubMed, Jupyter, R, cluster terminals, dozens of genomics and proteomics databases) into one place where an agent runs the analysis and a second agent checks its citations and math. It is in beta for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users, and is pre-loaded with more than 60 curated skills and wired into NVIDIA's BioNeMo models. Continue Reading →
TIDAL announced yesterday that starting on July 15, fully AI-generated music on the platform will no longer earn royalties. The company will tag those tracks with an "AI" badge, remove anything that impersonates an artist, and block 100% AI material from direct-to-fan sales. Continue Reading →
OpenAI will release GPT-5.6 as a limited preview to a small group of enterprise customers at the request of the Trump administration, with the federal government approving access on a customer-by-customer basis during the preview window. A broader release is expected "a couple of weeks" later, contingent on the government-managed approval process. Continue Reading →
The Associated Press reports that Anthropic's Mythos model, running red-team exercises with U.S. intelligence agencies under an Anthropic initiative called Project Glasswing, identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive classified U.S. government computer systems. Continue Reading →
Anthropic has released Claude Tag in beta. Tag @Claude inside a Slack channel and Claude can join the workstream, follow the thread, take assignments, remember relevant channel context, and (with admin-granted access) pull from connected tools, data sources, codebases, and other approved channels. It is available now to Claude Enterprise and Team customers. Continue Reading →

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