Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China’s growing AI capabilities.
X Money is launching in the US starting today
X Money, a core part of Elon Musk’s mission to turn X into an “everything app,” is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports. The payment platform offers a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments similar to Venmo, along with a metal Visa card users can emblazon with their X username. Other perks include Apple Wallet support […]
Razer’s analog Huntsman V3 Pro is over 20 percent off
Gaming keyboards have evolved over the years to add RGB LEDs, extra knobs, and buttons with screens, but one feature has remained fairly consistent: the mechanical switch. That’s slowly changing, with brands introducing adjustable optical switches that are more customizable and have a faster response time. Razer’s Huntsman V3 Pro TKL is a compact, wired […]
Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive
Companies without their own models — or without a layer of AI infrastructure known as AI gateways to separate their prompts from the model itself — will be in trouble, Nadella says.
Thea Energy lands $20M federal grant to build its magnets for fusion reactors
Fusion power startup Thea Energy snagged a $20 million award from ARPA-E to scale production of its high-temperature superconducting magnets.
As rivals chase acquisitions, Peacock bets on bundles through a new deal with YouTube
The deal means content will be integrated into the YouTube experience, allowing viewers to discover and watch Peacock content without leaving the platform.
PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini apps and documents users can build inside Claude — were found publicly searchable on Google over the weekend, after Reddit users discovered that typing search operators like “site:claude.ai/share” into Google surfaced a long list of shared conversations. Some reportedly contained health records, private […]
Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc
An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games – it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. Xbox’s status page initially reported the outage on Sunday at about 11PM ET, and it has also prevented people from logging in, launching apps, or finding […]
Nanoleaf’s colorful pegboard and shelf kit is half off
Nanoleaf’s Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit is a fun back-to-school buy that can add pops of customizable light and storage to your wall. It combines colorful smart lighting panels with a low-profile shelf and pegboard, and right now you can buy the kit for half off at $99.99 from Nanoleaf, which marks a new low […]
Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system
Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.