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Anthropic has launched Claude Cowork on mobile and web. Cowork sessions now run in the cloud by default, so tasks keep working after you close your laptop, and scheduled tasks run with no device online at all. Beta access is rolling out over the next several weeks, starting with Max users, with more plans to follow. Continue Reading →

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 →

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