Anthropic has extended invisible SynthID-Text watermarks to four older Claude models worldwide to meet the EU AI Act's machine-readable labeling deadline. Detection remains limited to a private beta for regulators, law enforcement, media, researchers, and selected organizations, raising concerns about asymmetric access.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. At the end of September, President Trump signed an executive order that contained just one directive, ordering government agencies to rebrand what they had been calling artificial intelligence as “Super Intelligence.” That…
A Chinese-speaking hacker used the open-source Cairn framework with Claude Code and DeepSeek to compromise more than 100 corporate websites in a single 23-hour intrusion, at a total cost of about $5,000 and about $50 per attack. Security Boulevard first disclosed the case on November 2, 2026.
Google's Dreambeans, its latest AI experiment, now supports 13 Indian languages.
Apple hinted at ways that it could spur revenue through third-party "opportunities" during its Monday night earnings call.
Y Combinator Garry Tan has jokingly admitted that he's suffered from "cyber psychosis” and barely sleeps sometimes because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a new episode of Walter Isaacson’s podcast, The Builders, Tan put a price tag on his passion.
The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.
The website builder said that the job losses are part of a broader restructuring of its organization.
RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.
Oracle filed to raise $20 billion through common stock and senior notes for AI data centers, marking its second financing of the same size in 2026. The move, despite being pre-announced, renewed investor concerns about dilution, debt pressure, and the funding gap behind its aggressive AI buildout.
Anthropic’s amended S-1 discloses about $895.4 billion in cumulative compute commitments, 6.8 times its cash and short-term investments. The filing also reveals a sharp quarterly profit swing, a concentrated supplier matrix, and revenue and compliance risks that will test whether the bet pays off.
Apple robot backed by CEO John Ternus may have hefty price tag and limited uses.
The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.
On 2026-11-03, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 13 models, with GPT-5.5, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Luna, and GPT-6 Sol tied for first at 87.27. The Smoke test uses 10 questions per day and is suitable for observing short-term signals, not for drawing Full weekly leaderboard conclusions.
Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having "the fastest growth of a product that I've ever seen in my life."
Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation?
In just a few years, generative AI has changed the face of enterprise analytics, notably by making analytics accessible to users across the organization. Agentic AI promises to do even more, by automating entire workflows and taking actions based on agent insights. But there is a problem: The quality of insights that agents currently generate…
The tsunami of imitators is way bigger than any one model maker can stem.
Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The agentic web is here In 2001, a decade after inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision: an internet navigated by autonomous software agents that address our…
