Elon Musk’s SpaceX committed to spending over $2.8 billion in recent months to buy gas turbines to power data centers for its artificial intelligence unit, the company revealed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. The relatively large investment shows that Musk is continuing to double down on gas turbines, even after SpaceX’s use of them … Read more
What my mom lacks in healthy legs, she makes up for in a Claude Pro subscription. Having needled her repeatedly over the past couple years about AI’s environmental, political, and economic implications, I brushed all that aside on a recent Sunday and drove to her house. After a little tibia talk, I opened her computer … Read more
Anthropic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX said on Wednesday that the two entities have signed an agreement for Anthropic to use computing resources from xAI’s data center in Memphis, Tennessee. It’s the latest tie up in an industry that is scrambling to find enough computers to run complex AI software. SpaceX and xAI were previously separate … Read more
Anthropic just announced a new feature called “dreaming” at the company’s developer conference in San Francisco. It’s part of Anthropic’s recently launched AI agent infrastructure designed to help users manage and deploy tools that automate software processes. This “dreaming” aspect sorts through the transcript of what an agent recently completed and attempts to glean insights … Read more
A gunman attempted to enter the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, DC, last weekend, while President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other administration officials were in attendance. Media reports and Trump himself quickly identified the suspected shooter as 31-year-old engineer and computer scientist Cole Tomas Allen. The California resident was arrested at … Read more
As researchers and Practitioners debate the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday it used early access to Anthropic’s Mythos Preview to find and fix 271 vulnerabilities in its new Firefox 150 browser release. Meanwhile, researchers identified a group of moderately successful North Korean hackers using AI for everything … Read more
I’ve used ChatGPT to help me build a budget before, and it was genuinely helpful. After I input my monthly salary as well as my standard utilities and recurring expenses, the chatbot drafted a few solid options, and I tweaked them into penny-pinching perfection. I’m admittedly part of the growing number of people turning to … Read more
“There’s no blocker for your creativity anymore,” says Vermeeren, who is now also investing in Schematik. “That’s why I’m so excited about it and building stuff constantly.” He’s not the only one. On Thursday, Anthropic engineer Felix Rieseberg posted on He also shared a picture and a GitHub link for a device that looks very … Read more
Anthropic is moving into a new London office as it seeks to expand its research and commercial footprint in Europe, setting up a scrap between the leading AI labs for talent emerging from British universities. The company, which opened its first London office in 2023is moving to the same neighborhood as Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, … Read more
Anthropic has come out against a proposed Illinois law backed by OpenAI that would shield AI labs from liability if their systems are used to cause large-scale harm, like mass casualties or more than $1 billion in property damage. The fight over the bill, SB 3444, is drawing new battle lines between Anthropic and OpenAI … Read more