Category Archives: Business

When Anthropic’s older Claude model played Pokemon Red, it spent “dozens of hours” stuck in one city and had trouble identifying non-player characters. With Claude 4 Opus, they noticed an improvement in Claude’s long-term memory and planning capabilities.

Politico has rules about AI in the newsroom. Staffers say those rules have been violated—and they’re gearing up for a fight.

As Google and Microsoft push agentic AI systems, the kinks are still being worked on how agents interact with each other—and intersect with the law.

Concocted by sicko programmers, esolangs are the high comedy of the coding world. They test my patience.

Interdimensional travel, sex with aliens, communion with God. Anything is possible with just a sprinkle of DMT. Akasha Song’s secret labs made millions of doses—and dollars—until the feds showed up.

Io, a firm Ive and Sam Altman cocreated, will now merge with OpenAI.

Jack Dorsey’s company went all-in on agents by deploying one capable of building software—and occasionally deleting stuff.

In her new book Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao chronicles the anxieties around the OpenAI office in its early days.

Google’s AI models are learning to reason, wield agency, and build virtual models of the real world. The company’s AI lead, Demis Hassabis, says all this—and more—will be needed for true AGI.

The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other’s monsters. An excerpt from The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future.