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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 →

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 →

AdventHealth announced an 80% reduction in time spent on administrative tasks across its hospital system using OpenAI's ChatGPT for Healthcare. The system operates in nine states and serves millions of patients. Continue Reading →

Google announced Gemini Spark at I/O this week, a 24/7 agentic assistant built on Gemini 3.5 and the Antigravity harness. It integrates natively with Gmail, Google Docs, and the rest of Workspace. Spark is currently in testing, with a beta rolling out to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. next week. Continue Reading →

Andrej Karpathy is joining Anthropic. He'll work on the pre-training team under team lead Nick Joseph, where he will start a new initiative focused on using Claude to accelerate Claude's own pre-training research. In his announcement, he said "the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative" and that he was getting "back to R&D." Continue Reading →