What’s in the box? Professor25/Getty Images Suppose I showed you a box and asked you to guess what is inside, without providing any more details. You might think this is completely impossible, but the nature of the container provides some information – the contents must be smaller than the box, for example, while a solid…
The Trump administration is following through with its threat to designate artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a supply chain risk in an unprecedented move that could force other government contractors to stop using the AI chatbot Claude. The Pentagon said in a statement Thursday that it has “officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its…
OpenAI is releasing a new model today, and like GPT-5.2 before it, GPT-5.4 is all about professional work. OpenAI is calling GPT-5.4 its most capable frontier model for tasks like coding and data analysis. OpenAI claims the new model produced presentations with stronger, more varied aesthetics and made more effective use of its image generation…
Feeling numb as your boss announces your promotion. Fighting back tears as you skim the email offering you a new stretch opportunity. Knowing you “should” be excited to grab coffee with the industry leader who could open doors, but really it just feels like a drain. On paper, you’re doing everything right and hitting the…
In a new blog post, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has admitted that it received a letter from the Defense Department, officially labeling it a supply chain risk. He said he doesn’t “believe this action is legally sound,” and that his company sees “no choice” but to challenge it in court. Hours before Amodei published the…
Val Blair had climbed mountains to get to the pinnacle of her career. An accomplished marketing executive, she navigated high-pressure environments with a combination of dedication and discipline that set her apart from her peers. But in 2017, she was at the top of a different mountain. A real one. She was suddenly struck with…
Netflix has acquired an AI filmmaking , according to a report by Variety. This is a company that was founded by actor Ben Affleck back in 2022. Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of it. Affleck has been operating the company in stealth mode for the past few years, so this is pretty much it’s…
Eli Lilly wants to get its obesity drugs into the hands of more Americans and it’s betting on employers to help do so. The Indianapolis-based drugmaker launched a new program on Thursday that’s designed to offer employers more options for covering obesity drugs, thereby lowering the cost barriers to access for employees. Lilly and rival…
Who needs Half-Life 3 or Beyond Good & Evil 2? Roku, in an attempt to gamify content discovery on its platform, has cooked up a gaming announcement for the ages. Behold: Roklue. Yes, that’s a real name that someone with a job title and (likely high) salary came up with. Roklue (shudder) will quiz players…
On February 27, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took the unprecedented step of designating a U.S. firm—Anthropic—as a supply chain risk. Anthropic’s crime? It refused to violate industry-wide protocols against using AI for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons. Hegseth’s designation, which has until now been reserved for foreign firms, bars U.S. military contractors from doing business…
