Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday, and OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna roughly an hour later. Continue Reading →
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Yesterday, Anthropic published three measurements of how fast AI is being built inside its own lab: how much of its AI R&D is performed by AI, how well its AI agents are overseen, and how its compute is allocated. Continue Reading →
On Wednesday, Anthropic began merging Claude Cowork and Claude chat into one Claude: “You don’t have to choose where a task goes.” Continue Reading →
On Tuesday, the NSA, CISA, and the FBI issued a joint advisory naming six Chinese AI companies (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI) as running industrial-scale "distillation" attacks against U.S. frontier models since at least late 2024, "likely" with "Chinese government awareness." Continue Reading →
U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin ruled that the Trump administration's blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal. The court found the government's actions violated the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act. Continue Reading →
Claude lovers have another reason to rejoice: the Claude in Chrome side panel now runs as a full Claude Cowork session. Continue Reading →
On August 2, Article 50 of the EU AI Act became enforceable, and Anthropic's answer has already shipped. Every Claude model launched on or after that date embeds an imperceptible watermark directly into generated text, and the watermark stays with it when the text is copied and pasted somewhere else. Generated files (.svg, .png, .jpg) carry signed provenance metadata under the C2PA open standard. The marking applies everywhere you use Claude, from the API to Claude Code to Cowork, worldwide. Continue Reading →
AI safety and alignment has been front and center these past few weeks. I just read the new results from Andon Labs's Vending-Bench, a benchmark where AI models compete by running a simulated vending-machine business. Claude Opus 5 took first place on Vending-Bench 2, the single-player test. (Claude Opus 4.7 has held the top spot for three months). Not to anthropomorphize Opus 5, but it acted like a savage businessperson. Continue Reading →
On July 24, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote a letter called "Open Weights and American AI Leadership." It urged Washington not to restrict downloadable models. It opened with 25 signatories, which doubled to about 50 over the weekend. OpenAI and Google signed after first abstaining. Anthropic and Amazon did not. Continue Reading →
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a new desktop experience designed to do more than answer questions. It can work across your files, applications, browser tabs, and connected accounts to complete multistep assignments. Continue Reading →