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Software development

Anthropic releases a new Opus model amid Mythos Preview buzz

The AI divide putting open weights models in spotlight

Open weights AI models are evolving from research projects to serious enterprise products, highlighting a growing divide between enterprise and frontier AI.

fromTechRepublic

16 hours ago

Anthropic Releases Opus 4.7, Not as 'Broadly Capable' as Mythos AI

Anthropic launched Opus 4.7, improving software engineering and complex task performance, while preparing for the more powerful Mythos model.

Software development

Anthropic releases a new Opus model amid Mythos Preview buzz

fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence

The AI divide putting open weights models in spotlight

Open weights AI models are evolving from research projects to serious enterprise products, highlighting a growing divide between enterprise and frontier AI.

Anthropic now has a design assistant too

Anthropic has launched Claude Design, a tool for generating designs and prototypes using its advanced vision model, Opus 4.7.

OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, an AI model for life sciences research

GPT-Rosalind is designed to support evidence synthesis, hypothesis generation, experimental planning, and multi-step scientific workflows across biochemistry, genomics, and protein engineering.

Medicine

OpenAI expands Codex into a more comprehensive development assistant

Codex has evolved from a programming aid to a comprehensive digital assistant for software development, enhancing user interaction and integration capabilities.

#san-francisco

Silicon Valley

2 hours ago

AI startups are shifting the economic center of gravity of San Francisco

San Francisco's tech center is shifting to smaller neighborhoods due to return-to-office mandates and the rise of AI startups.

20 hours ago

What San Francisco's AI billboards say about the state of the industry

San Francisco's billboards reflect a booming AI industry focused on practical applications, largely ignoring safety and governance issues.

Silicon Valley

2 hours ago

AI startups are shifting the economic center of gravity of San Francisco

San Francisco's tech center is shifting to smaller neighborhoods due to return-to-office mandates and the rise of AI startups.

20 hours ago

What San Francisco's AI billboards say about the state of the industry

San Francisco's billboards reflect a booming AI industry focused on practical applications, largely ignoring safety and governance issues.

more#san-francisco

Education

fromThe Village Voice

10 hours ago

The Builder Who Never Stopped: From a Childhood Website to Four Companies and the Future of Autonomous AI - The Village Voice

Mateusz Kelner is a young software engineer who has achieved significant milestones in technology and entrepreneurship before turning twenty.

#ai

fromSecurityWeek

Information security

OpenAI Widens Access to Cybersecurity Model After Anthropic's Mythos Reveal

fromInsideHook

Marketing tech

The Market for AI Airbnb Assistants Is Growing

Tech industry

The 'AI is inevitable' trap

Startup companies

Snap's layoffs highlight growing work trend: AI-powered tiny teams

fromsfist.com

NYC startup

New Boutique in SF's Cow Hollow Is Completely Run by AI, Which Manages Human Staff

Mission District

An AI agent opened a store in San Francisco. Then it forgot the staff

Information security

fromSecurityWeek

OpenAI Widens Access to Cybersecurity Model After Anthropic's Mythos Reveal

OpenAI launched GPT-5.4-Cyber, a cybersecurity AI model, expanding access to verified defenders and enhancing capabilities for vulnerability analysis.

fromInsideHook

The Market for AI Airbnb Assistants Is Growing

AI is increasingly being used in customer service, particularly in the fast food and short-term rental industries.

Tech industry

The 'AI is inevitable' trap

Allbirds claims to be an AI company, reflecting a trend of companies leveraging AI for market gains despite mixed public sentiment.

Startup companies

Snap's layoffs highlight growing work trend: AI-powered tiny teams

AI is enabling companies to operate with smaller teams, leading to job cuts and a shift in workforce structure.

NYC startup

fromsfist.com

New Boutique in SF's Cow Hollow Is Completely Run by AI, Which Manages Human Staff

An AI agent successfully launched a retail store but failed to schedule staff for opening day.

Mission District

fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence

An AI agent opened a store in San Francisco. Then it forgot the staff

Andon Market is the first AI-run store in the Bay Area, managed by an AI named Luna.

UK wants to build sovereign AI - with just 0.08% of OpenAI's market cap

The UK government struggles to invest effectively in national IT champions, with past successes slipping out of UK ownership.

Business intelligence

fromInfoWorld

17 hours ago

Oracle delivers semantic search without LLMs

Oracle's Trusted Answer Search prioritizes control and predictability in enterprise search, using vector search over generative models for reliable outcomes.

Business

18 hours ago

Allbirds rebrands as NewBird AI, pivots from shoes to GPU cloud computing

Allbirds rebrands as NewBird AI, pivoting to GPU-as-a-service after selling its shoe business for $39 million.

Intellectual property law

fromFortune

18 hours ago

Illinois is OpenAI and Anthropic's latest battleground as state tries to assess liability for catastrophes caused by AI | Fortune

OpenAI and Anthropic support opposing AI bills in Illinois regarding liability for AI-related incidents.

#ai-design

fromUX Magazine

UX design

The End of Prompting: Why the Future of AI Experience Design Is Constraint-First

Anthropic debuts Claude Design, because who needs designers?

Anthropic launched Claude Design, an AI service for creating visual assets, impacting the design industry and potentially displacing jobs.

UX design

fromUX Magazine

The End of Prompting: Why the Future of AI Experience Design Is Constraint-First

Fluency without verifiability in AI design is inadequate and poses risks in high-stakes environments.

Anthropic debuts Claude Design, because who needs designers?

Anthropic launched Claude Design, an AI service for creating visual assets, impacting the design industry and potentially displacing jobs.

Claude Opus 4.7 is no Mythos, and that's a good thing

Claude Opus 4.7 improves software engineering, vision, and agentic tasks, but is not the risky Mythos model Anthropic refrains from fully releasing.

fromInfoWorld

Anthropic's latest model is deliberately less powerful than Mythos (and that's the point)

Claude Opus 4.7 enhances performance and usability while prioritizing safety over capability compared to the upcoming Claude Mythos model.

fromTNW | Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.7 leads on SWE-bench and agentic reasoning, beating GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro

Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most capable model, outperforming competitors in software engineering and agentic reasoning with significant improvements.

DevOps

Claude Opus 4.7 is no Mythos, and that's a good thing

Claude Opus 4.7 improves software engineering, vision, and agentic tasks, but is not the risky Mythos model Anthropic refrains from fully releasing.

fromInfoWorld

Anthropic's latest model is deliberately less powerful than Mythos (and that's the point)

Claude Opus 4.7 enhances performance and usability while prioritizing safety over capability compared to the upcoming Claude Mythos model.

fromTNW | Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.7 leads on SWE-bench and agentic reasoning, beating GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro

Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most capable model, outperforming competitors in software engineering and agentic reasoning with significant improvements.

The stigma around AI in journalism may be easing, but trust is still fragile

There is a growing acceptance of AI in journalism, despite initial reluctance and a recent controversy over AI-generated content.

#artificial-intelligence

Games

Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on the long game of AI

Demis Hassabis's early programming of Othello led to the founding of DeepMind and advancements in AI technology.

fromnews.bitcoin.com

Anthropic Debuts Claude Opus 4.7 as Agentic Workflows Take Center Stage

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026, achieving an 87.6% score on the SWE-bench Verified test.

fromThe Motley Fool

Meta's Massive Artificial Intelligence Investments May Be About to Pay Off for Investors | The Motley Fool

Meta Platforms launched the Muse Spark model, enhancing its AI capabilities to improve advertising and content engagement.

Games

Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on the long game of AI

Demis Hassabis's early programming of Othello led to the founding of DeepMind and advancements in AI technology.

fromnews.bitcoin.com

Anthropic Debuts Claude Opus 4.7 as Agentic Workflows Take Center Stage

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026, achieving an 87.6% score on the SWE-bench Verified test.

fromThe Motley Fool

more#artificial-intelligence

Meta's Massive Artificial Intelligence Investments May Be About to Pay Off for Investors | The Motley Fool

Meta Platforms launched the Muse Spark model, enhancing its AI capabilities to improve advertising and content engagement.

Digital life

fromwww.socialmediatoday.com

Google now lets you explore the web side-by-side with AI Mode | TechCrunch

Google's AI Mode enhances web exploration by allowing side-by-side browsing and contextual search across multiple tabs.

Social media marketing

fromSearch Engine Roundtable

LinkedIn expands AI-powered conversational search

LinkedIn expands AI-powered conversational search tools to all users, enhancing search capabilities and personalization for better discovery.

Online marketing

Google Warns Against Trying to Manipulate LLMs

Google is aware of self-serving listicles and actively works to combat manipulation in search results.

Apple

Apple could win the AI race without running

Apple aims to maintain its high-end hardware sales as AI becomes more integral to consumer technology.

#openai

fromDevOps.com

Software development

OpenAI Upgrades Its Agents SDK With Sandboxing and a New Model Harness - DevOps.com

Silicon Valley

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed 'side quests' | TechCrunch

fromDigiday

OpenAI builds tool to track whether ChatGPT ads convert

OpenAI is developing ad measurement tools to compete for performance budgets through conversion tracking pixels.

Tech industry

OpenAI scales back Stargate in Europe; Microsoft fills the gap

Startup companies

fromEngadget

OpenAI buys its second startup in a month

OpenAI acquired Hiro Finance, a startup providing AI financial planning tools, signaling a potential shift in personalized financial guidance.

OpenAI's big Codex update is a direct shot at Anthropic's Claude Code

OpenAI updates Codex to enhance its capabilities, including desktop app operation, image generation, and memory features for improved user experience.

fromDevOps.com

OpenAI Upgrades Its Agents SDK With Sandboxing and a New Model Harness - DevOps.com

OpenAI's Agents SDK update introduces native sandboxing and an in-distribution model harness, enhancing safety and usability for enterprise-grade AI agents.

Silicon Valley

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed 'side quests' | TechCrunch

fromDigiday

OpenAI builds tool to track whether ChatGPT ads convert

OpenAI is developing ad measurement tools to compete for performance budgets through conversion tracking pixels.

Tech industry

OpenAI scales back Stargate in Europe; Microsoft fills the gap

OpenAI will lease computing capacity through Microsoft instead of purchasing directly from Nscale's data center in Norway.

Startup companies

fromEngadget

OpenAI buys its second startup in a month

OpenAI acquired Hiro Finance, a startup providing AI financial planning tools, signaling a potential shift in personalized financial guidance.

OpenAI's big Codex update is a direct shot at Anthropic's Claude Code

OpenAI updates Codex to enhance its capabilities, including desktop app operation, image generation, and memory features for improved user experience.

Microsoft Takes Over Key Stargate Site in Latest OpenAI Pullback

Microsoft has taken over data center capacity in Norway originally intended for OpenAI's Stargate project amid OpenAI's spending reductions.

Business intelligence

OpenAI executive sends internal memo: 'The market is as competitive as I have ever seen it'

Customers seek deeper insights into AI roadmaps and demand systems that integrate seamlessly into their workflows.

I went to an AI conference and got a crash course in middle management

The future of AI involves humans managing agents, steering their tasks and correcting mistakes as they transition from coding to other domains.

OpenAI's new Agents SDK focuses on safety and scalability

OpenAI's updated Agents SDK enables developers to create autonomous AI agents for complex tasks with enhanced usability and a sandbox environment.

How OpenAI's Codex figured out how to use Adobe software

AI agents are evolving to autonomously navigate and operate software, exemplified by Codex automating photo denoising in Adobe Lightroom.

OpenAI's new Agents SDK focuses on safety and scalability

OpenAI's updated Agents SDK enables developers to create autonomous AI agents for complex tasks with enhanced usability and a sandbox environment.

How OpenAI's Codex figured out how to use Adobe software

AI agents are evolving to autonomously navigate and operate software, exemplified by Codex automating photo denoising in Adobe Lightroom.

AI boom is city's weirdest tech boom, says S.F.'s chief economist

The AI boom in San Francisco significantly differs from previous tech booms, impacting jobs and office space occupancy.

fromAdExchanger

5 days ago

OpenAI's Big Ambitions; Tricks Of The Trade | AdExchanger

Open AI must prove superior ad performance to shift significant ad spend from traditional platforms.

Information security

fromSecuritymagazine

What Are Security Experts Saying About OpenAI's GPT-5.4-Cyber?

OpenAI launched GPT-5.4-Cyber for cybersecurity, offering broad access to defenders while emphasizing safety and continuous improvement.

Tech industry

fromnews.bitcoin.com

AI Cloud Provider Coreweave Secures Anthropic Agreement for Claude Workloads

Coreweave signed a multi-year agreement with Anthropic to provide cloud infrastructure for AI model development and deployment.

OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build safer, more capable agents | TechCrunch

"This launch, at its core, is about taking our existing agents SDK and making it so it's compatible with all of these sandbox providers," Karan Sharma, who works on OpenAI's product team, told TechCrunch.

Software development

OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop | TechCrunch

OpenAI's Codex has been revamped with new features, including background operation capabilities, to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code.

fromInfoQ

Meta Reports 4x Higher Bug Detection with Just-in-Time Testing

JiT testing improves software quality by dynamically generating tests during code review, enhancing bug detection by approximately 4x in AI-assisted environments.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, concedes it trails unreleased Mythos

"Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks," Anthropic said in a blog post.

Software development

#robotics

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught | TechCrunch

Physical Intelligence's π0.7 model enables robots to perform unfamiliar tasks through compositional generalization, marking a significant advancement in robotic AI capabilities.

Voracious demand for robotics training data is transforming gig work

Instawork is transforming gig work into a data generation platform for robotics, addressing the need for real-world training data in AI development.

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught | TechCrunch

Physical Intelligence's π0.7 model enables robots to perform unfamiliar tasks through compositional generalization, marking a significant advancement in robotic AI capabilities.

Voracious demand for robotics training data is transforming gig work

Instawork is transforming gig work into a data generation platform for robotics, addressing the need for real-world training data in AI development.

Anthropic's Project Glasswing CVE count is still guesswork

Anthropic's Mythos model is under testing by select companies to identify security vulnerabilities, but actual findings remain uncertain.

No company in American history has ever grown like Anthropic

Anthropic's revenue growth surpasses historical benchmarks, achieving $30 billion in annualized revenue in just over three years with its product Claude.

Anthropic's Project Glasswing CVE count is still guesswork

Anthropic's Mythos model is under testing by select companies to identify security vulnerabilities, but actual findings remain uncertain.

No company in American history has ever grown like Anthropic

Anthropic's revenue growth surpasses historical benchmarks, achieving $30 billion in annualized revenue in just over three years with its product Claude.

How Missions Work | Factory.ai

Missions system enhances agent performance by breaking complex tasks into focused units handled by fresh agents with clear goals.

Anthropic's AI downgrade stings power users

"Claude has regressed to the point it cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering," an AMD senior director wrote in a widely shared post on GitHub.

Artificial intelligence

#ai-adoption

fromEntrepreneur

AI Won't Fix Your Broken Company Model - It Will Amplify It

AI adoption without shared standards leads to fragmented systems that hinder true transformation.

Artificial intelligence

Anthropic is close to overtaking OpenAI on this measure of AI business spending

Anthropic is rapidly increasing its business spending on AI, potentially surpassing OpenAI within two months.

fromEntrepreneur

AI Won't Fix Your Broken Company Model - It Will Amplify It

AI adoption without shared standards leads to fragmented systems that hinder true transformation.

Anthropic is close to overtaking OpenAI on this measure of AI business spending

Anthropic is rapidly increasing its business spending on AI, potentially surpassing OpenAI within two months.

more#ai-adoption

fromFortune

Forget the chatbot wars. Demis Hassabis is thinking about something far bigger | Fortune

AI leadership should be global and diverse to ensure ethical development and deployment.

fromInfoQ

2 weeks ago

Anthropic's Designs Three-Agent Harness Supports Long-Running Full-Stack AI Development

Anthropic's multi-agent harness improves autonomous application development by dividing tasks among agents for better coherence and output quality.

fromWIRED

The Battle for OpenAI's Soul

Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman will determine OpenAI's adherence to its founding mission and impact its corporate future.

fromWIRED

AI Could Democratize One of Tech's Most Valuable Resources

Nvidia faces potential competition as startups like Wafer optimize AI code for various chips, challenging its dominance in AI hardware.

Writing

fromMedium

2 months ago

Get behind me, AI writer

Write a full draft freely, then use ChatGPT to identify sources, correct citations, and preserve the writer's authentic voice while integrating proper references.

fromFuturism

There's Something Fundamentally Wrong With LLMs

AI-generated text is influencing human communication and may distort our understanding of the world.

Elon Musk's xAI plans to supply AI computing power to coding startup Cursor

xAI partners with Cursor to utilize its GPUs for training AI models, aiming to generate revenue and strengthen industry ties.

LinkedIn is quietly moving into the AI training business

LinkedIn is launching an AI labor marketplace for training chatbots, offering up to $150 an hour for various roles.

fromFuturism

5 days ago

OpenAI's Latest Thing It's Bragging About Is Actually Kind of Sad

The AI industry faces significant delays and cancellations in data center projects, impacting ambitious computing capacity goals.

2 weeks ago

Anthropic is having a month | TechCrunch

Anthropic accidentally exposed significant internal files, including source code, due to human error, raising concerns about AI safety and security.

1 month ago

OpenAI's new frontier models mark a huge change in how AI will be built

OpenAI released two frontier models in early March: GPT-5.3 optimized for fast responses and GPT-5.4 optimized for deep analytical work, representing a shift toward specialized AI models.

fromArs Technica

1 month ago

OpenAI introduces GPT-5.4 with more knowledge-work capability

OpenAI released GPT-5.4 with improved image analysis up to 10.24 million pixels and 18% fewer factual errors, competing against Anthropic's recent user gains from military policy disputes.

1 month ago

OpenAI's new GPT-5.4 model is a big step toward autonomous agents

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer use capabilities, enabling AI to operate devices and complete tasks across applications as part of the agentic AI future.

fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence

2 months ago

Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

OpenClaw demonstrated autonomous, tool-integrated personal AI capabilities and Steinberger joined OpenAI to scale such agents broadly.