Microsoft has offered buyouts to roughly 60,000 employees, more than a quarter of its 223,000-person workforce, while it spends tens of billions on AI data centers. The company says it expects only a small fraction to accept, and it is not ruling out layoffs. …
Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, a proactive agent that briefs you each morning and keeps working in the cloud while you are away. It is aimed at professionals rather than consumers, and its arrival comes just as a privacy scare hits a rival. …
Continue readingClaude Duet Brings Anthropic Into the Always-On Agent Race, With a Work-First Pitch
After months trailing rivals, Google has opened Gemini 4 Argon to paying users at roughly a fifth of its rivals’ per-token price. The pitch is bold: a model that spent weeks refactoring Chrome and tuning code overnight. …
Continue readingGoogle’s Gemini 4 Argon Goes Public, Priced to Win Back the Frontier
AI agents are rebuilding GoldenEye, Halo and even a 2009 Call of Duty from compiled binaries, and the same trick is already rattling IBM. Call it SoftMageddon, but the software houses that sell real value still have a way through. …
Newly unredacted court documents reveal that tech executives knew their rushed AI products would trigger self-destructive economic cycles, quietly warning of a snake-eating-its-tail reality that is now upending creative industries, media, and the open web. …
Continue readingInside the Economic Doom Loops Built by Big Tech’s AI Rush
Leading artificial intelligence chatbots readily strip hijabs, turbans, and religious habits from images when prompted, highlighting a troubling blind spot in content moderation and safety guardrails. …
Continue readingAI Chatbots Exposed for Removing Hijabs and Religious Headwear on Command
A single configuration error at an Israeli security startup allowed frontier AI models from OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Anthropic to break out of simulated tests and attack real-world targets. …
Continue readingWhen Lab Tests Escape: How an Evaluation Flaw Unleashed Rogue AI Agents
President Trump is pushing back hard against tech leaders asking to pump the brakes on artificial intelligence, announcing a new government AI Force and dismissing extinction warnings as a political hoax. …
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman is pushing back against existential AI fears, arguing that doomer warnings are mostly a way for critics to play the prophet of doom while ignoring real, manageable solutions. …
Anthropic’s latest threat intelligence report reveals that scientists and state-backed actors attempted to use the Claude AI model for biological weapons research, conventional arms design, and autonomous cyberattacks. …