The big AI companies promised us that 2025 would be “the year of the AI agents.” It turned out to be the year of talking…
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How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic
Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it’s reached…
AI-Powered Disinformation Swarms Are Coming for Democracy
“We are moving into a new phase of informational warfare on social media platforms where technological advancements have made the classic bot approach outdated,” says…
Google Nabs Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI
Google DeepMind is hiring the CEO and several top engineers from Hume AI, a startup working on emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, as part of a…
A Wikipedia Group Made a Guide to Detect AI Writing. Now a Plug-In Uses It to ‘Humanize’ Chatbots
On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plug-in for Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant that instructs the AI model to stop writing…
Micron Megafab Project Faces a New Hurdle as Activists Seek a Benefits Deal
Days after Micron broke ground on a $100 billion chip factory in New York state, a coalition of environmentalists, labor unions, and civil rights groups…
The Race to Build the DeepSeek of Europe Is On
Against that backdrop, Europe’s reliance on American-made AI begins to look more and more like a liability. In a worst case scenario, though experts consider…
Thinking Machines Cofounder’s Office Relationship Preceded His Termination
Leaders at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab confronted the startup’s cofounder and former CTO, Barret Zoph, over an alleged relationship with another employee last summer,…
Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside ChatGPT in the coming weeks, marking a significant shift for one of the world’s most widely used AI…