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 →

Every Industry is Next

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 Stops Paying Royalties for AI Songs

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 →

Washington Now Sorts the GPT-5.6 Queue

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 →

Mythos Broke into Classified Systems in Hours

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 Wants Some Slack

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 →

Getty Cut a New AI Deal

OpenAI signed a multi-year deal with Getty Images, putting Getty's licensed content libraries into ChatGPT and OpenAI search results. Getty Images stock roughly tripled on the news. Continue Reading →

The G7’s AI Coalition is the Cartel Now

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spent Wednesday afternoon in a closed-door G7 working lunch in Évian-les-Bains asking President Trump to lead an international AI coalition. Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman were also in the room, along with about a dozen tech executives and the heads of state of the world's wealthiest democracies. OpenAI's global affairs chief Chris Lehane, who also attended Wednesday's meeting, said non-U.S. leaders in the room acknowledged that the U.S. "certainly could play the lead role in working to establish" standards around AI. Continue Reading →