Coverage of Claude Opus 4.6 started yesterday with the mundane alignment and model welfare sections of the model card. Today covers the kinds of safety I think matter most: Sabotage,...
Claude Opus 4.6: System Card Part 1: Mundane Alignment and Model Welfare
Claude Opus 4.6 is here. It was built with and mostly evaluated by Claude. Their headline pitch includes: 1M token context window (in beta) with State of the art retrieval...
Just look at Ayaneo’s absolute unit of a Windows gaming “handheld”
In 2023, we marveled at the sheer mass of Lenovo’s Legion Go, a 1.88-pound, 11.8-inch-wide monstrosity of a Windows gaming handheld. In 2026, though, Ayaneo unveiled details of its Next...
No humans allowed: This new space-based MMO is designed exclusively for AI agents
For a couple of weeks now, AI agents (and some humans impersonating AI agents) have been hanging out and doing weird stuff on Moltbook’s Reddit-style social network. Now, those agents...
Google experiments with locking YouTube Music lyrics behind paywall
The app’s lyrics feature allows listeners to follow along as the song plays. However, only the first few lines are visible once free users in the test hit the lyric...
Trump FCC investigates The View, reportedly says “fake news” will be punished
The FCC Media Bureau’s January 21 public notice to broadcast TV stations said that despite a 2006 decision in which the FCC exempted The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from...
Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs
Discord to block adult content unless users verify ages with selfies or IDs. Discord is facing backlash after announcing that all users will soon be required to verify ages to...
NIH head, still angry about COVID, wants a second scientific revolution
Can we pander to MAHA, re-litigate COVID, and improve science at the same time? Bhattacharya speaks before the Senate shortly after the MAHA event. Credit: Chip Somodevilla Bhattacharya speaks before...
Disclosure Day Super Bowl trailer: Could it be… aliens?
David Koepp, who has worked with Spielberg on numerous projects (including Jurassic Park and War of the Worlds), wrote the screenplay. Emily Blunt stars as a TV meteorologist in Kansas...
Ive and Newson bring old-school charm to Ferrari’s first EV interior
Ferrari has published images of the interior of its forthcoming electric vehicle, which it designed with LoveFrom, the new firm of former Apple star Jony Ive and another legendary designer,...
Report: Imminent Apple hardware updates include MacBook Pro, iPads, and iPhone 17e
Apple’s 2026 has already brought us the AirTag 2 and a new Creator Studio app subscription aimed at independent content creators, but nothing so far for the company’s main product...
Why would Elon Musk pivot from Mars to the Moon all of a sudden?
As more than 120 million people tuned in to the Super Bowl for kickoff on Sunday evening, SpaceX founder Elon Musk turned instead to his social network. There, he tapped...
A Project Hail Mary final trailer? Yes please
Sure, most Americans are glued to their TVs for the today’s Super Bowl and/or the Winter Olympics. But for the non-sports minded, Amazon MGM Studios has released one last trailer...
Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds
The Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable. Enforcement against polluters in the United States plunged in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term,...
Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy
The automotive industry’s big bet on a rapid adoption of electric vehicles—at least here in the United States—continues to unwind. Today, Stellantis, which owns brands like Jeep and Dodge, as...
Lawmakers ask what it would take to “store” the International Space Station
NASA shall evaluate the “viability of transferring the ISS to a safe orbital harbor” after retirement. The International Space Station, with a crew of six onboard, is seen in silhouette...
NASA stage show explores “outer” outer space with Henson’s Fraggles
(Asked why Traveling Matt would not have recognized the Moon from his time in outer space, Tartaglia said that perhaps he did see it, but only as a thin crescent,...
EU says TikTok needs to drop “addictive design”
TikTok said: “The Commission’s preliminary findings present a categorically false and entirely meritless depiction of our platform, and we will take whatever steps are necessary to challenge these findings through...
Rocket Report: SpaceX probes upper stage malfunction; Starship testing resumes
Amazon has booked 10 more launches with SpaceX, citing a “near-term shortage in launch capacity.” The top of SpaceX’s next Super Heavy booster, designated Booster 19, as the rocket undergoes...
Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea
We hold these truths to be self-evident Production source says it takes “weeks” to produce just minutes of usable video. Artist’s conception of critics reacting to the first episodes of...
