Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Welcome to the New Era of Consumer Tech

So you paid a few hundred bucks for a neat little gadget and think you’re good to go. But it turns out you’ll need to…

Goose, a New Gay Dating App, Appears to Be a Psyop

The Instagram Close Friends Story for @miles.sumrall shows an affable-looking guy with curly dark hair and an expertly groomed mustache beaming as he floats on…

You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly

Writing AI Lab each week means I occasionally encounter AI models that behave badly and bizarrely. Usually, there’s nothing to be done about it, save…

Anthropic Added a New Security Measure to Get Back Into the Trump Administration’s Good Graces

The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 AI model after the company agreed to extend an existing guardrail to prevent users…

Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

As a security researcher who specializes in finding web vulnerabilities, he decided to poke around Front Gate’s web domain for bugs. He quickly found what…

The Trump Administration Is Lifting Its Export Controls on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable AI Models

The Trump administration is expected on Tuesday night to lift export controls on Anthropic’s two most powerful AI models after the company reached a deal…

Bernie Sanders Saw This Coming

It’s hard to believe Bernie Sanders. Not because the longtime Vermont senator bears the hallmarks of a liar. Yes, he’s a career politician, but the…

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta were instructed to pose as minors online and probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving…

This Humanoid Robot Is a Terrifyingly Competent Office Intern

Humanoid robots might be able to run, dance, and occasionally kick people, but to become truly human, they’re going to need to learn how to…

Trump Administration Allows Anthropic to Release Mythos to Select US Organizations

The US government has eased the restrictions it imposed on Anthropic’s most advanced AI model, Claude Mythos 5, allowing the company to grant access to…