After first announcing its scarily capable Mythos Preview model back in April, Anthropic is releasing a public version of Mythos, called Fable 5, that it says is “safe for general use.”
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Two of the biggest names in tech now want to watch the web on your behalf. Within a month, both Google and Apple announced features that monitor web pages and tell you when something changes. Both claim they will use AI to alert you when a condition is…
The company that just a few weeks ago told us that its Mythos model was much too powerful to be released is now saying that we might need to hit the pause button.
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The European Commission has ordered Meta to “restore free access to WhatsApp for rival general purpose AI assistants” within five working days. The interim measures, announced on Tuesday, are designed to prevent what the Commission called “serious and …
The Dutch government will expand its investment-screening regime to cover six additional technologies, including artificial intelligence, from 1 January 2027. The rules will affect hundreds of companies, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs. “…
SoftBank knocked Toyota off its perch as Japan’s most valuable company last week, after a stock rally inflated the conglomerate’s market capitalisation by more than $120 billion in six months. Three days later, Toyota reclaimed the top spot. The last t…
Anthropic has said its Mythos model is so good at finding software vulnerabilities that releasing it publicly could help attackers steal data or disrupt critical infrastructure. It has also, as of early June, expanded access to 150 additional organisat…
A London startup called Zaro has come out of stealth. Cherry Ventures led its $5.1mn pre-seed round. Zaro wants to build one AI workspace that a company owns, not its software vendors. Who is backing Zaro The angel list is senior for such an early roun…
Private equity buys companies, strips out costs, and flips them. A two-year-old startup called Beacon has raised hundreds of millions to do almost the opposite, and to let AI do the heavy lifting. Beacon, an “AI-native” holding company based in Toronto…
Generative AI has already changed how companies draft, summarize and search for information. The next challenge is more complex: whether AI can coordinate work across business systems while preserving controls, auditability and human accountability. Th…