Claude Opus 4.6 and agent swarms were announced yesterday. That’s some big upgrades for Claude Code. OpenAI, the competition, offered us GPT-5.3-Codex, and this week gave us an app form...
AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them
Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents. On Thursday, Anthropic and OpenAI shipped products built around the same idea: instead of chatting with a...
The Switch 2 is getting a new Virtual Console (kind of)
In 2018, we lamented as Nintendo officially replaced the Virtual Console—its long-running line of downloadable classic games on the Wii and Wii U—with time-limited access to a set of games...
With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code
Today, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new version of its frontier coding model that will be available via the command line, IDE extension, web interface, and the new macOS desktop app....
“ICE Out of Our Faces Act” would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition
A few Senate Democrats introduced a bill called the ‘‘ICE Out of Our Faces Act,” which would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from...
Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites
Microsoft won’t explain why Bing blocked 1.5 million Neocities websites. Credit: Aurich Lawson | NeoCities One of the weirdest corners of the Internet is suddenly hard to find on Bing,...
Watch Kanzi the bonobo pretend to have a tea party
Such studies have nonetheless been met with skepticism when it comes to interpreting the behavior as evidence of animals’ ability to engage in make-believe. For instance, it’s possible the animals...
Bad sleep made woman’s eyelids so floppy they flipped inside out, got stuck
Exhausted elastin As such, the correct next step for addressing her floppy eyelids wasn’t eye surgery or medication—it was a referral for a sleep test. The patient did the test,...
Google hints at big AirDrop expansion for Android “very soon”
Android has its own AirDrop-like feature called Quick Share (formerly Google Nearby Share), but until recently, it couldn’t communicate with Apple’s AirDrop. As we reported in November, the European Union...
OpenAI is hoppin’ mad about Anthropic’s new Super Bowl TV ads
On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Chief Marketing Officer Kate Rouch complained on X after rival AI lab Anthropic released four commercials, two of which will run during the...
This black hole “burps” with Death Star energy
When AT2018hyz, aka “Jetty,” was first discovered, radio telescopes didn’t detect any signatures of an outflow emission of material within the first few months. According to Cendes, that’s true of some...
AI #154: Claw Your Way To The Top
Remember OpenClaw and Moltbook? One might say they already seem a little quaint. So earlier-this-week. That’s the internet having an absurdly short attention span, rather than those events not being...
Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce.
Russian-state hackers wasted no time exploiting a critical Microsoft Office vulnerability that allowed them to compromise the devices inside diplomatic, maritime, and transport organizations in more than half a dozen...
FBI stymied by Apple’s Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist’s iPhone
Apple made Lockdown Mode for people at high risk CART couldn’t get anything from the iPhone. “Because the iPhone was in Lockdown mode, CART could not extract that device,” the...
Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no.
Different incentives, different futures In its blog post, Anthropic describes internal analysis it conducted that suggests many Claude conversations involve topics that are “sensitive or deeply personal” or require sustained...
US House takes first step toward creating “commercial” deep space program
A US House committee with oversight of NASA unanimously passed a “reauthorization” act for the space agency on Wednesday. The legislation must still be approved by the full House before...
Judge gives Musk bad news, says Trump hasn’t intervened to block SEC lawsuit
Now, Musk may be running out of arguments after Sooknanan shot down his First Amendment claims and other claims nitpicking the statute as unconstitutionally vague. Whether Musk can defeat the...
Trump admin is “destroying medical research,” Senate report finds
Senators also pressed the director on the future of the NIH, noting that it has been hamstrung by the ongoing chaos, putting upcoming grant funding at risk, too. Of the...
“Capture it all”: ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirm or deny the existence of a “domestic terrorists” database that lists US citizens who protest ICE’s immigration...
User blowback convinces Adobe to keep supporting 30-year-old 2D animation app
30 years of animation Animate debuted in 1996 as FutureWave Software’s FutureSplash Animator. After a 1997 acquisition by Macromedia, FutureSplash Animator became Macromedia Flash. In 2005, Adobe bought Macromedia and...
