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KPMG published a paper about the benefits of AI last year. An investigation found that it was full of AI hallucinations.

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A new partnership between Visa and OpenAI takes the next step in AI-led purchasing. Here's what an expert wants you to know.

Why you should always put effort into writing your dating app bio. Do not leave your Tinder bio or Hinge prompts blank.

A coalition of state attorneys general is asking OpenAI for documents about its activities.

Anthropic has suspended all access to its new AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to comply with a government order citing national security concerns.

Andrew Yang made a list of everything Americans overpay for — housing, food, wireless — and thinks the next startup gold rush is giving that money back.

Anthropic isn't hiding its frustration. "We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people," the company wrote in a blog post.

<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access">Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5</a></strong></p> Well this is <em>nuts</em>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, in

<p><strong><a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/openai-webrtc">OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context</a></strong></p> I built the first version of this tool <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/17/openai-webrtc/">in December 2024</a> to try out the then-new OpenAI WebRTC API for interacting with their realtime audio models.</p> <p>Last month OpenAI <a href="https://openai.com/index/advancing-voice-intellig

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside its S-1 registration document.

A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.

AgentPerf from Artificial Analysis, the industry’s first agentic AI benchmark, gives developers, enterprises and infrastructure providers a clear way to compare systems for agentic AI. In the first round of published results, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra NVL72 platform delivers leading performance across the agentic AI workloads tested, running 20x more agents per megawatt than NVIDIA […]

The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million text messages over a span of two weeks.

Project Ire examined a timely malware sample and determined its intent through reverse engineering—identifying LOTUSLITE characteristics even as most major EDR tools did not detect it. The post Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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First things first: Claude Fable 5 is the new best publicly available model.

<blockquote cite="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies"><p>Jenny owns a crematorium. John’s propane company gives her a $20 billion investment in return for 5 percent of her operation. Jenny throws $10 billion into the incinerator, then pays John $10 billion to buy propane to burn that money to ashes. John reports that his AI investments have generated $10 billion in revenue this quarter and that he owns 5 percent of a $100 billion business. A reporter from &l

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The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C valuation of €11.7 billion.

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Claude Fable 5 gave users access to Mythos-class power, but its hidden safeguards turned a safety feature into a trust problem for Anthropic.

A review of Samanth Subramanian, “The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World” (Columbia Global Reports, 2025).

Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Michael Feinberg, and Molly Roberts talked through the week’s big news in national security.

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same window, and it’s a stress test for investors, for valuations, and for […]

How do you create real ROI from autonomous AI? Three digital leaders share lessons they've learned in the field.

Siri is not for companionship and Apple says it designed the AI assistant that way.

I use Claude Code a lot and GPT 5.5 as well, and find that they are simultaneously extremely useful and also fall into common poor-performance basins. For example, writing performance -- perhaps my biggest issue with them is writing style -- such as well documented stylistic tics (em-dash, it's not x it's y), less commented stylistic tics ("the honest framing", "the earned XYZ"), cryptic and coined jargon, overabbreviation and sentences replaces by arrow constructions (this -> that -> this other

The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same window, and it’s a stress test for investors, for valuations, and for […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Future of Privacy Forum, a global non-profit focused on data protection, AI, and emerging technologies, announced new recipients of its Career Achievement Award, recognizing exceptional leaders whose work has advanced privacy, responsible data governance, and AI leadership worldwide. The 2026 recipients of the FPF Career Achievement Award are:  Alan Raul, FPF’s […]

Some of my top robot vacuum recommendations are on sale two weeks before Prime Day, like the Eufy C28 and Shark UV Reveal 2-in-1.

Regulations that force developers to disclose trade secrets to the public could violate the Constitution. How can regulators respond?

As algorithms increasingly shape how people discover music, Spotify is giving its editors a larger role in explaining the artists, trends, and stories behind each week's biggest releases.