Japan finally teams up: SoftBank, NEC, Sony and Honda launch an AI alliance
Four Japanese heavyweights are joining forces: the new 'Japan AI Alliance' plans to build a domestic foundation model — and overtake the US and China on physical AI by 2030.
Four Japanese heavyweights are joining forces: the new 'Japan AI Alliance' plans to build a domestic foundation model — and overtake the US and China on physical AI by 2030.
PwC's new AI Performance Study kills the 'AI lifts all boats' narrative: a small group of companies is pulling dramatically ahead, and whoever falls behind now probably won't catch up.
Stanford HAI's ninth annual AI Index lands with a thud: the US-China performance gap has basically vanished, while the biggest labs have quietly stopped publishing almost anything about how their models are built.
Anthropic invited 15 Christian thinkers to discuss Claude's morality and 'spiritual development'. An unusual approach to AI alignment — and a sign of how seriously Anthropic takes the topic.
Four new releases in three days: Claude Code ships a /team-onboarding command, flicker-free rendering, named subagents, and patches a command injection vulnerability.
Anthropic launched Claude for Word in public beta — a sidebar add-in that edits, comments on, and reviews documents right inside Word. The highlight: tracked changes and cross-app integration with Excel and PowerPoint.
Following the announcement of Claude Mythos Preview, financial regulators are stepping in. In Canada and the US, banking officials and regulators met to discuss the cyber risks posed by the model.
OpenAI closes the pricing gap between $20 and $200 with a new $100 Pro plan. The focus: more Codex capacity for developers. A clear shot across the bow at Anthropic's Claude Max.