My yard is dying, so I made an app for that
My yard is dying, so I made an app for that

When I returned to my computer five minutes after giving Gemini a lengthy prompt, I had two things: a functional app in a preview window, and a message about a bug. “~ Channel is unrecoverably broken and will be disposed!” Sounded bad! But right below it was a button to fix the bug. Pretty weird […]

Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order
Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order

On Friday evening, the government ordered Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nations, both inside and outside the US, due to national security concerns. That order included employees of Anthropic. To meet those demands, the company has completely cut off access to the models for all customers. In […]

Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse
Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse

The most popular camera in the world just got its first set of serious AI photo editing features, and I don’t think any of us are ready. As far as AI photo editing goes, the new features in iOS 27 are pretty tame compared to what you can do on, say, Google’s Pixel phones. But […]

The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models 
The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models 

For all the noise that’s been made about how generative AI is poised to revolutionize the filmmaking industry, there haven’t really been any projects created with the technology that felt like the sort of entertainment people would pay to see. Most AI firms’ video models are still only capable of churning out short bursts of […]

AI Makers Are Striving Mightily Toward AI-Builds-AI, Which Will Greatly Impact AI For Mental Health

Anthropic and other AI makers are pursuing the use of AI to advance AI. It’s dicey. Even more so when it comes to AI for mental health. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.

Anthropic’s Fable Is Locked Down As US Takes AI Safety Into Its Hands

Anthropic’s Fable AI shut down by White House. Directive limiting access to US nationals reveals a tension: when AI safety advocacy meets government regulation.

OpenAI Buys Ona To Run Codex Agents Inside Enterprise Clouds

OpenAI is acquiring Ona, formerly Gitpod, to run Codex agents inside a customer’s own cloud. The coding-agent race is shifting from model quality to the execution layer.

Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living

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’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI

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.

Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it

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