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Anthropic filed its IPO registration statement on October 26, giving companies that use Claude a detailed look at their supplier’s finances. It plans to trade on Nasdaq under ANT. The offering price and number of shares remain undetermined. The IPO has not been completed. Continue Reading →
Your Personal AI Emergency Playbook
Security is a practice, not a product. Buying a security tool gives you another tool to maintain. Protecting yourself requires habits: keeping software current, checking access, verifying unusual requests and making sure you can recover when something fails. AI adds urgency because the tools you connect can act on your behalf. Continue Reading →
OpenAI made its Decisions API generally available. It's a direct Jev competitor that lets software make quick choices, such as classifying a document, routing a customer request, or choosing the next action in an automated workflow. Continue Reading →
OpenAI has begun rolling out a lock for ChatGPT conversations. You can hide selected chats from regular history and search, then open them with a four-digit PIN or supported device authentication. This will help prevent accidentally embarrassing screen shares, but it also creates a new opportunity for people to misunderstand what "private" means. Continue Reading →

Making Smart TVs Dumb Again

Developers are using AI coding assistants to replace smart-TV home screens and disable advertising and tracking components. They're basically turning smart TVs into dumber TVs. Why? 1) Because they can. 2) Because smart TV interfaces are filled with bloatware and other annoying stuff that, in some engineers' eyes, seriously degrades the UX. Continue Reading →

Your AI Apocalypse Playbook

AI Emergency Playbook
A major AI-driven business disruption is coming, whether from inexperienced bad actors with capable models or from self-organizing agents doing things nobody foresaw. Here is the playbook: who has authority, what happens in the first hour, how the business keeps operating, and how to practice before you need it. Continue Reading →
Universal Cart
Google's Universal Cart lets shoppers save products from multiple retailers, get price-drop and restock alerts, and check out with Google Pay. A rise in orders attributed to Google cannot tell you whether it created profitable demand or just moved where existing demand gets fulfilled. Continue Reading →
Anthropic ran an AI model across 15 cheap Android TV boxes and, in a separate test, had an agent move between emulated machines and set up copies of itself. No self-contained rogue replicator yet, but the cybersecurity threat from frontier models is real, and the arms race is on. Continue Reading →

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