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10 articles
· 8 min read
Banning teens from social media without knowing how
The science backs the lawmakers, Australia undercuts them, and nobody can yet say who will check our children's ages or what they will keep afterward.
· 5 min read
Xbox cuts jobs, the Fed hires its CEO to study jobs
Xbox is cutting 3,200 jobs the same week its CEO joined a Federal Reserve task force on productivity and employment. You can't make this stuff up.
· 6 min read
Fable 5 Is Back, the Government in the Loop
Anthropic switches Fable 5 back on worldwide after export controls lift, but the accuser turns out to be Amazon and the government is now in the loop.
· 3 min read
The Biter Bit, Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Copying Claude
Anthropic says Alibaba siphoned Claude's capabilities through fake accounts to train Qwen, but the company crying theft has done plenty of taking itself.
· 4 min read
Midjourney Dreams of an MRI at Spa Speed
Known for synthetic images, Midjourney now promises to scan your whole body in sixty seconds, somewhere between the radiology lab and the spa.
· 5 min read
On the web, humans are already outnumbered
For the first time, Cloudflare has measured more web requests coming from bots than from humans, a tipping point that arrived far sooner than anyone expected.
· 5 min read
Le Chaton Fat, the model too fat to be true
For one weekend, Reddit and X crowned Le Chaton Fat, a world-beating Mistral AI model with absurd benchmark scores, before remembering it had never existed.
· 6 min read
Fable and Mythos, the day AI got classified
Three days after launch, Anthropic had to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on Washington's orders, and export controls now reach artificial intelligence.
· 4 min read
Elon Musk, a trillionaire despite it all
SpaceX's record-smashing IPO just made Elon Musk the first trillionaire in history, a feat that commands respect and unease in roughly equal measure.
· 6 min read
The Wave, or how to build a dictatorship in five days
A lunch with a friend, a movie memory, and a handful of social experiments later, a look back at the German film where a whole classroom flips in a single week.