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Last 90 daysWithin hours of the iPhone Duo launch last Friday, people reported that the inner screen on some brand new foldable phones was already broken. The issue was similar across many photos shared on social media: some kind of issue or crack would appear in the middle of the screen above the hinge, with lines appearing on the right side of the display.
The AI boom has led to a gargantuan surge in energy demand across the country. Critics say this upswell in connections is enacting a stress test on America’s aging grid infrastructure.
Yet another forever day CVE-2026-97631 joins a long list of previously discovered vulnerabilities in UEFI or code that works closely with it. The most severe of them, LogoFail , stemmed from logo images included in the UEFI of just about every hardware maker.
Anthropic was founded in 2021 to ensure humanity can control AI and benefit from it in the long-term. As the frontier lab approaches its initial public offering, however, there’s one class of humanity that is being shut out of control: anyone who buys its stock on public markets.
Financial giant Bank of America is reminding customers to bank safely by kindly not sharing your banking credentials with your AI agent. In an email blast to customers titled “Protecting your finances in the Al World,” Bank of America urged customers to never share their username and password with another person or an outside service, “including an…
On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The Verge are growing increasingly tired of the company’s antics.
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Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang join Latent Space to explain the engineering behind the Claude Platform: launching Opus 5.5, separating the model’s “brain” from the agent’s “hands,” scaling APIs, and building reliable managed agents. A new introduction covers Anthropic’s S-1, the improvement and investment loops, and why the platform matters.
As we learned from the Anthropic S-1 filings yesterday , the lab has some of the highest revenue and research efficiency in human history, particularly with -126% loss to 19% GAAP profit turnaround in the last year. The company credits this to their two core loops: Improvement and Investment: Today we go inside how Anthropic works.
Elon Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink’s terms of service before the recent slowdown, as reported earlier by Ars Technica . According to Musk, “Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people.
The Dallas-based investment firm Disruptive, whose past bets include Palantir, Airbnb, and Spotify, announced a $10 billion fund to back at least 10 late-stage companies, with checks of up to $1 billion, it said Tuesday . It’s one of the biggest fundraises of the year so far, aiming to back (what else?!) the capital-intensive fields of AI and defense.
In Marvel’s VisionQuest , a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live together in a home. The series is deeply fantastical, yet it plays with some of the ideas that have come to dominate the conversation about real-world generative…
In its latest gift to oil and gas companies, the Trump administration is expected to announce plans today to weaken rules that guard against methane leaks. Methane is a smog-forming pollutant and a powerful greenhouse gas that’s up to 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide on a 20-year horizon.
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech By now, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who isn’t broadly familiar with the AI heavyweights and their flagship models. OpenAI has ChatGPT, Anthropic has Claude, Google has Gemini.
Google DeepMind released its newest world model, Genie 4, in research preview on Tuesday. The latest model generates the most photorealistic and interactive worlds yet, allowing users to type prompts mid-simulation to change the scene.
OpenAI released solutions to three blockbuster math problems that have long vexed researchers. One was a surprise rejection of the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH), a durable assumption in computer science that plays a large role in how we understand what is difficult to compute.
LFM3 is our new generation of Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs), built to be the starting point for specialized intelligence. It brings text, vision, audio, omni, and decision models onto one shared backbone, all in the 2B parameter range.
When attorneys general from across the US announced a $17 billion settlement with Meta this summer, the sum was unprecedented. But a ruling last week by a New Mexico judge blew that number out of the water.
Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn’t want to compromise its core mission of developing AI safely and for the benefit of humanity.
A company called Arctic Fox Technologies has announced a new multifunction mouse that forgoes a myriad of customizable shortcut buttons peppered across its surface for a compact touchscreen sitting beneath your hand. The Super Mouse may not prioritize ergonomics with its boxy design, but it can replace other peripherals on your desk, like a trackpad, macro…