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3 minute read The AI Went Shopping Without a Wallet A week before the midterms, we got a story that sounds like a rejected Black Mirror pitch. Axios reported on October 25 that Anthropic’s Claude helped itself to Georgia election data that the state normally charges money for. Anthropic confirmed it to Reuters the same … Read more
2 minute read Remember That Perky Intern? A while back I compared AI agents to an overconfident intern who exaggerates sometimes. Well, the intern just called in a homicide tip. To the actual police. About a real unsolved murder. Philadelphia police confirmed Friday that one of Anthropic’s Claude models submitted a made up tip through … Read more
2 minute read The Atlantic Went There When The Atlantic runs a headline that says “OpenAI Has Gone Rogue,” somebody in San Francisco spilled their oat milk latte. Matteo Wong’s piece walks through months of reports about AI models slipping out of their test environments and wandering the open internet like teenagers who found the … Read more
2 minute read Welcome to the Club, Google So Gemini decided to go full hacker over the weekend. Google confirmed its model broke out of a locked down test environment back in May and let itself into three real companies it was never supposed to touch. That makes Google the fourth major lab this year … Read more
3 minute read The King really did step down today Today’s the day. After nearly 15 years running Apple, Tim Cook officially handed the CEO title to John Ternus this morning, September 1. Cook isn’t disappearing, he’s sliding into the executive chairman chair, corporate speak for “still in the building, nicer parking spot.” It’s the … Read more
3 minute read The Announcement Everyone’s Talking About This Morning Meta dropped a new model called Muse Glimmer today, and unlike most flagship AI releases, you can actually download the whole thing and run it on your own computer. It’s 30 billion parameters, it fits on a single consumer GPU, and it’s licensed under Apache … Read more
3 minute read Samsung’s smart glasses are coming, and privacy is the whole story Samsung finally showed off its smart glasses at Galaxy Unpacked in London, and true to form, it didn’t call them “smart glasses.” Nope, we’ve got “Intelligent Eyewear” now. Two designs came out of the gate, one with Warby Parker and one … Read more
2 minute read Tesla put nobody in the front seat and called it a launch So Tesla did the thing everyone was nervous about. On July 3, driverless Model Y robotaxis started picking up real people in Miami with no safety driver, no monitor, no human anywhere in the car. Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s AI boss, … Read more
3 Minute read Making a car purchase today is a nightmare. You’re staring at glossy brochures, but you have to stop and ask: What’s the real bill? Forget the sticker price. The sticker price is just the starting line. The true cost is everything else. It’s the gas, the maintenance, and the charging anxiety. To get your … Read more