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Anthropic releases its first Mythos-class model to the public
Anthropic is making its first Mythos-tier model available to the general public. On Tuesday, the AI lab announced it was rolling out Fable 5—the first widespread release of an AI model from a significantly more powerful class of model—as a general release, and Claude Mythos 5 to vetted partners who already have access to the…
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Grimes says AI can make music, but humans must still tell the story
The singer-songwriter Grimes has embraced AI-generated music, but she insists that even as music formats change, humans must still play a central role. Grimes appeared at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado on Monday alongside Robert Kyncl, chief executive of Warner Music Group. Debating the future for music artists in the age of…
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China builds 85% of the world’s humanoids robots for cheap at scale, but finding buyers is tricky
Chinese-made humanoid robots are making waves with their ability to do backflips, direct traffic, and even make coffee as the companies developing them seek ways to expand and dominate the market. Robot makers in China say they have thousands of orders from both the government and private businesses for humanoids that can do such things…
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‘We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it’: OpenAI files confidential SEC paperwork for IPO
ChatGPT maker OpenAI filed preliminary paperwork that would open the door to it becoming a publicly traded company, the third in a powerhouse trio of artificial intelligence companies racing to Wall Street debuts. The San Francisco-based company said Monday it has filed confidential paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. “We expect it to leak so we’re just…
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Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf says economic warfare is the ‘new normal’ for military conflicts—and the U.S. needs to get serious
Brian Schimpf, CEO of defense tech company Anduril, says that the nature of modern armed conflict has fundamentally shifted—and that the U.S. military’s supply chain is dangerously unprepared for it. “The U.S. and Israel did something like ten times as many strikes in the first month of the war as they did in the entire…
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Twitch CEO: Social media has become ‘anti-social’ and can’t match the shared, human connection of live streaming
Twitch Chief Executive Dan Clancy said that in an attention economy, live-streaming formats like his platform foster a sense of human connection and authenticity that consumers can’t get from social media channels. The CEO of the Amazon-owned company spoke at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado on Monday alongside Grant LaFontaine, chief executive…
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI confidentially files for IPO, a week after Anthropic
OpenAI filed confidentially for an IPO, as the ChatGPT maker looks to join artificial intelligence rivals tapping public markets to fund ambitious growth plans. The Sam Altman-led firm submitted paperwork for an initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said. OpenAI is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan…
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Anthropic’s Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, says there are days he manages tens of thousands of AI agents at once
Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Anthropic’s Claude Code, hasn’t handwritten a line of code in eight months. But that doesn’t mean he’s stopped building software—it just means he now manages a massive fleet of AI agents to do much of the work. “This morning I was managing maybe a few hundred,” he said…
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Apple debuts Siri AI at WWDC as Tim Cook prepares to hand over the reins
On Monday, Apple held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, in what was both Tim Cook’s last as chief executive and what analysts have dubbed the company’s most high-stakes showcase in years. At the event, Apple debuted a new and improved Siri—rebranded as Siri AI—as the company sought to answer mounting questions about its place in…
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‘We may be flying blind’: AWS wants to fix the problem of AI agents straying off task
Anoop Deoras, the director of applied science for agentic AI at Amazon Web Services, is not prone to alarmism. But when asked about what happens when AI agents are deployed in production without proper guardrails, he doesn’t reach for reassurance. “In the absence of that,” he said, “we may be flying blind. And I worry…