The Anthropic Fable mess, explained
The Anthropic-Mythos-Fable story has been The Topic since Friday, and it moved fast enough to lose anyone who blinked. Here’s my opinionated The post The Anthropic Fable mess,...
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Xbox is reportedly closing South of Midnight studio Compulsion Games after bragging about its award-winning developers earlier this year
The shutdown comes just a few days after a report claiming that major layoffs at Xbox were on the way.
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Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI
At Washington's request, Anthropic suddenly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend. The American company said it had little choice after...
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EA Advertising Puts Ads in Games "in Ways that Respect the Player Experience"
We recently reported on comments by Xbox Gaming Chief Strategy Officer, Matthew Ball, about a future of Xbox Gaming experiences subsidized by non-intrusive in-game advertising, although...
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Multiple small Tennessee counties pass temporary data center bans — Nashville also passed near-unanimous moratorium on first reading
Two jurisdictions in Tennessee just passed a data center moratorium as three more a set to vote on bills that delay these projects. These temporary bans...
Read moreThe VCs Who Screamed That Biden Would Kill Powerful AI Models Seem Quite Chill About Trump Actually Doing It
Late Friday, Anthropic shut down access to its just-released Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after the Trump administration slapped export controls on them — treating...
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NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from New Jersey Students
Students in New Jersey will hear from NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station. The...
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Google Chrome is closing the loopholes that let old ad blockers keep working
Google Chrome version 150 and 151, expected in late June and July, respectively, will cut off support for the last remaining workarounds for running older ad...
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Daily Deal: The Lifetime Learner Bundle
The Lifetime Learner Bundle feature access to uTalk and Stack Skills. Through uTalk, you’ll be able to speak keywords and phrases in no time and will...
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Engineering Is Critical to Boosting Food Security
Nearly 750 million people face hunger today, according to the U.N. World Food Program. And by 2050, global demand for food is expected to increase by...
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Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs
AMD's stripping of TSME from consumer CPUs appears to be a deliberate, covert move.
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Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation
For months, Big Tech's Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress...
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