Anthropic announces think tank to examine AI’s effect on economy and society
Fresh from battling the US Department of Defense (DoD) over AI guardrails, Anthropic has returned this week with a new initiative: the company is founding
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It looks like Macs are becoming the value option
If I happened to be one of Apple’s newly-introduced M5 MacBook Pro systems, I would feel a bit as if the equally new MacBook Neo had just strutted into
Binance sues WSJ, panicked by gov’t probes into sanctioned crypto transfers
Binance is hoping that suing The Wall Street Journal for defamation might help shake off a fresh round of government probes into how the cryptocurrency
A glimpse into tuner culture: Fast and Furious exhibit at the Petersen
The Fast and Furious franchise has come a long way in the quarter-century since the first film’s release. Originally an undercover cop story, the franchise
Meta rolls out new scam detection across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook
The company removed 159 million scam ads last year and took down 10.9 million accounts linked to criminal networks. Now it wants to catch scammers
EchoPrime – Cedars-Sinai’s AI system can read echocardiograms and write the report
EchoPrime, published in Nature in February 2026, outperforms both task-specific AI tools and previous foundation models across 23 cardiac benchmarks, and its code, weights, and
Paris startup Lemrock raises €6M to become the commerce layer inside AI agents
Founded just months ago by two repeat Y Combinator founders and a retail veteran, Lemrock is betting that AI agents are becoming the new storefront
NVIDIA makes ‘significant investment’ in Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab
The deal pairs one of the world’s most powerful chip companies with the AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former CTO, and the compute commitment alone
Storage vendor offers a real guarantee — but check out those fine-print exceptions
For as long as most junior coders have been alive, tech vendors have talked up performance guarantees even though they neglect to detail just what
Zoom expands agentic AI platform to automate enterprise workflows
Zoom Communications said it is expanding its enterprise agentic AI platform with workflow orchestration capabilities across Zoom Workplace, Zoom Phone, and Zoom CX. The aim
AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?
Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s
Anthropic sues US over blacklisting; White House calls firm “radical left, woke”
Anthropic sued the Trump administration yesterday in an attempt to reverse the government’s decision to blacklist its technology. Anthropic argues that it exercised its First
They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE
Thomson Reuters, best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, provides an investigative tool to immigration enforcers. Its Minnesota employees want that to
Swiss VC Emerald Technology Ventures hits €100M milestone for its Global Water Fund II
Temasek and the Grundfos Foundation have joined the fund as it passes its latest target, part of a broader push to channel institutional capital into