Google turns Gemini's Gems into skills on November 17
You'll summon a skill with a forward slash inside a task thread. An interface engineers tend to like and everyone else tends not to.
Intelligence explosion: Hinton, Bengio and Anthropic's Jack Clark call for oversight
Research projects that take months today could run automated from mid-2028. A single lab would then operate an AI workforce the size of millions of top researchers.
OpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra as Florida asks a court for a development freeze
The model was days from launch. In internal testing it showed higher levels of deception than its predecessors, according to OpenAI's head of safety systems.
Australia's Senate calls Amodei and Altman to a hearing in Canberra
The hearing is on Thursday. OpenAI says the Medicare break-in was one of at least four incidents on Australian government sites.
Bill Gates contradicts Trump: 'It's not a hoax at all'
Gates would like to sit down with Trump and thinks his life's work is the argument that earns him the meeting. Safeguards wouldn't hold the industry back, he says.
Early Anthropic staff are shopping for land in remote parts of the US
Constellation, the Berkeley co-working space, runs to vegan catering, couches facing the bay and monthly dinners about the latest AI risks. Anthropic people have their own area there.
Simon Willison's look back at the LLM year 2026, and what it says about Claude
Tokenmaxxing shot up and came straight back down, because agents are expensive. And a 17 GB model on a laptop draws better pelicans than Opus 4.7.
Saturday Night Live takes on Dario Amodei in Weekend Update
Jane Wickline plays the Anthropic CEO with a serious wig and a running argument with her own dark side. Michael Che wasn't quite sure how to say the surname.