AI

The rules of AI training have just changed. By default, Cloudflare will now block AI scrapers across the millions of websites it protects (roughly 24% of all sites on the internet). Any AI company seeking to crawl a Cloudflare-hosted site will have to obtain explicit permission from the content owner. This is the first infrastructure-level defense of its kind. Continue Reading →

We've spent two years teaching everyone about "prompt engineering," which has been great. But crafting clever questions represents perhaps 5% of what makes enterprise AI successful. Now, there's a new term being added to the buzzword bingo lexicon: "context engineering." I want to make fun of it, but I really like it. Context engineering isn't about the evolution of end user behavior, it's a nice way to describe the components you need to get the most out of the current crop of LLMs and Reasoning Engines. Continue Reading →

Are chatbots good for us or bad for us? Are they making us smarter, stupider, better, worse? One thing has become clear: the rise of AI chatbots has led to a new form of digital dependency. Users are forming compulsive relationships with conversational agents. This isn't a fringe concern; support systems are emerging to address this issue. Continue Reading →

Meta scored a decisive victory in federal court this week. A lawsuit filed by thirteen authors – including Sarah Silverman, Richard Kadrey, and Christopher Golden – accusing Meta of copyright infringement was largely dismissed by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria. Continue Reading →

U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its AI model, Claude, qualifies as fair use. This decision addresses the lawsuit filed by authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, who alleged that Anthropic infringed their copyrights by using pirated versions of their books for AI training. Continue Reading →

When an AI model fears for its own survival, what does it do? According to Anthropic’s latest research, it blackmails. Continue Reading →

You're running late for dinner, stuck in traffic, and realize you forgot to make a reservation. Instead of frantically switching between OpenTable, Google Maps, your calendar app, and your messaging app, you simply say: "Find me a table for two at the highest rated Italian restaurant in Midtown at 7:30 PM and text Sarah the details." This exists today. Continue Reading →

Midjourney has introduced its first video generation model. Called “V1,” it creates 10-second, 24 fps clips from text, image, or mixed prompts. Early tests show support for dynamic motion, basic scene transitions, and a broad range of camera moves. Aspect ratios include 16:9, 1:1, and 9:16. It runs on a mix of image and video training data. Continue Reading →

Before 1945, steel was just steel. Then, nuclear bomb tests contaminated the atmosphere, embedding trace radiation into all newly-smelted metal. Today, when uncontaminated steel is needed for radiation-sensitive instruments (like Geiger counters, particle detectors, or space telescopes), they salvage it from ships that sank before the blasts. It's called low-background steel and it is a rare, coveted material. Now, one man is doing the digital equivalent. Continue Reading →

OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to develop prototype frontier AI capabilities for national security use. According to the official DoD announcement, the contract is a fixed amount, prototype, "other" transaction agreement awarded under the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO). Continue Reading →