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Researchers furious over Anthropic's hidden AI limits

Anthropic's new Mythos-based models were deliberately made less helpful when they detect users working on AI research, the company's system cards for Mythos 5 and Fable 5 say. The firm limited the models' usefulness for tasks related to developing frontier large language models, citing concerns

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US desk workers are the world's biggest AI skeptics

More than half of US desk workers consider themselves AI skeptics, a level far above the global average. A Salesforce and YouGov survey of more than 1,500 desk workers across four continents finds American workers are 43% more likely than the average global worker to be skeptical. Workers in

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Kingdom Hearts fans allege AI use in collection's box art

Kingdom Hearts fans have raised concerns that the box art for the newly announced Kingdom Hearts Collection was AI-generated after spotting unusual illustrative quirks. Observers flagged discrepancies including Donald Duck appearing to have four fingers on one hand and five on the other, chains arranged in impossible configurations, a clock

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Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5: Mythos model with built-in guardrails

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, a version of its Mythos-class model adjusted with safety controls. Fable 5 uses the same underlying model as Mythos but adds safeguards that block responses in specific high-risk areas of cybersecurity and biology. When a prompt veers into those areas, the model falls back

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Kingdom Hearts art sparks AI-use accusations after Switch 2 reveal

A rush of Kingdom Hearts 4 news from the Nintendo Direct June showcase soured after credible suspicions that generative AI was used in the lead art for the series' newly announced Nintendo Switch 2 collection. A large illustration from Square Enix's official asset library was picked apart

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I saved $180 a year by switching my Google AI plan

After 14 years of using Docs, Sheets, Slides, Photos and uploads I had about 340GB in Google storage, well beyond the free 15GB. I was on Google AI Pro for $19.99 a month, which includes 5TB of storage and access to the Gemini 3 Pro model, but I rarely

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America's Workforce Academy: Meta launches trades training program

Meta is investing $115 million in a roughly five-week initiative called "America's Workforce Academy" to fast-track careers in the skilled trades as it builds data centers for its AI ambitions. The free program will support participants while they learn and guarantees a job for all graduates,

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Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5, a 'Mythos-class' AI model with safeguards

Anthropic announced the release of a "Mythos-class" model called Claude Fable 5, but said safeguards are so significant the model was given a different name. "Without safeguards, Fable 5's capabilities in areas like cybersecurity could be misused to cause serious damage," the company said.

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Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings near real-time voice translation

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is an audio model that delivers near real-time speech-to-speech translation in more than 70 languages. It automatically detects languages and generates natural-sounding speech that preserves speakers' intonation, pacing and pitch, translating continuously rather than waiting for each turn and staying just a few seconds

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Google reportedly orders at least three million TPUs from Intel amid TSMC strain

After a difficult stretch, Intel may be mounting a turnaround: its handheld chips have been performing well and its Foundry business is taking on substantial orders. The Information says Google has ordered at least three million TPUs (Tensor Processing Units) from Intel, per two people familiar with the company, as

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Executives say AI ROI is about outcomes, not token counts

At Mistral AI's summit in Paris, four executives were asked how they measure AI return on investment. Strikingly, none began by talking about how many AI tokens employees were using. Charles Holive, chief AI officer at BNP Paribas CIB, said his team focuses on outcomes rather than what

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Tokenomics will lead to opportunities in 'edge AI,' Citrini says

Citrini Research — the firm that sent the stock market into a tailspin with a report on AI's economic impacts earlier this year — warns that "Free AI is ending. Tokenomics is beginning." Tokenomics describes the economics of AI usage as measured by tokens, the blocks of text

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WWDC 2026: Siri AI, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence and more

Apple’s WWDC 2026 event kicked off this morning at 10 a.m. PT at Apple Park, launching a week of announcements around Siri, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence and developer demos. The keynote was notable as CEO Tim Cook’s last with the company; he said he will hand leadership

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Why Apple’s slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart

Apple has long been cast as a laggard in the AI race, with critics saying its lack of a clear strategy has cost it ground. The company has now unveiled Siri AI, embedding automated capabilities powered by a partnership with Google Gemini into the core of its software. Whether that

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The new Siri AI could cost you - here's why

After a multi-year wait, Apple launched its new AI-powered Siri at WWDC on Monday. The assistant keeps familiar Siri functions but is rebuilt around Apple Intelligence to handle multi-step requests, pull information from the internet and interpret what’s on your screen. Apple also expanded its model offerings and infrastructure,

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Fumito Ueda Says New Studio Avoids Generative AI in Development

A new trailer for Gen Atlas at Summer Game Fest 2026 highlighted the sci‑fi project from Fumito Ueda, which his studio genDESIGN is developing under an agreement with Epic Games. Ueda says the studio does not rely on generative AI for core development. "Everything that is considered game

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Apple's WWDC 2026: AI-first updates, Siri overhaul, and parental controls

Tim Cook gave his final WWDC opening speech as Apple's CEO as the company previewed software coming to the iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro. The keynote centered on "Apple Intelligence," the branding for a suite of AI features the company said are threaded

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Fumito Ueda says GenDesign doesn't use AI for 'game development'

Fumito Ueda says he and studio GenDesign are not using generative AI to develop the upcoming sci-fi adventure Gen Atlas, except as a project management tool. The studio uses AI for tasks such as "coming up with schedules," "summarizing meeting notes," and retrieving information about how

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Apple unveils overhauled Siri with AI features after delay

At its 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled a rebuilt Siri that it calls "Siri unlocked by Apple Intelligence," or "Siri AI." Mike Rockwell, vice president of engineering, said the assistant will live inside Apple’s software ecosystem and also as a standalone app, with a

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ChatGPT's Lockdown mode limits data theft but restricts live web access

Prompt injection is a significant security threat: by feeding malicious commands into prompts, an attacker can infiltrate chats, access external files and services, and steal personal data. Lockdown mode in ChatGPT aims to prevent that kind of data theft by limiting what the model can do and where it can

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Hideo Kojima says he's 'not interested' in AI after Prada ad

Hideo Kojima appeared in an AI-generated Prada ad that many found bleak and off-putting. In a recent interview with The Washington Post he said he is "not interested in AI" and does not expect it to produce anything he would call art during his lifetime. "Art is

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ChatGPT memory upgrade expands scope and can distort future answers

OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT's memory from a simple list of saved facts to a system that builds a profile from past chats, explicit instructions, personal constraints and implicit preferences. The upgrade, called Dreaming V3, synthesizes chat history in the background and can carry forward complex, multi-session context without

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WWDC could be Apple's chance to prove it's an AI winner

Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which kicks off on Monday, could be the AI catalyst investors have been waiting for. The event is also the last WWDC overseen by Tim Cook before he hands over the CEO role to hardware chief John Ternus, and it may be Cook&

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Legora CTO: tokenmaxxing is a 'really stupid way' to encourage AI use

Jacob Lauritzen, Legora's chief technology officer, said there are far better ways to encourage AI use than tokenmaxxing. "A lot of people, say, get a leaderboard and bring up token usage at performance reviews," he said. "That leads to tokenmaxing, which is people just burn

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AI firms are moving into each other's markets

Earlier this year, I sketched a competition map for my desk, dividing a sheet of paper into columns for different parts of the AI supply chain. There were the labs — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, etc. — making models and chatbots; the AI coding platforms — Cursor, Cognition, and Replit — building coding assistants