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Anthropic analyzed 1.2 million Claude Cowork sessions from more than 600,000 organizations. About half of all usage goes toward business processes and text creation, what Anthropic calls "the work ar…
https://the-decoder.com/claude-coworks-biggest-use-case-is-the-mundane-office-work-nobody-wants-to-own-anthropic-says/The AgenticSTS project replaces the ever-growing chat log of AI agents with five separate memory layers. Tested on the card game Slay the Spire 2, the prompt stays at around 5,000 tokens instead of b…
https://the-decoder.com/ai-agents-win-at-slay-the-spire-2-after-researchers-replace-growing-chat-logs-with-structured-memory/S&P Global has downgraded Oracle's credit rating to "BBB-," one notch above junk status. OpenAI accounts for roughly half of Oracle's $638 billion in contractual obligations. If OpenAI walked away, O…
https://the-decoder.com/sp-global-sees-openai-as-a-key-credit-risk-for-oracle-and-cuts-its-credit-rating/Claude Code now has a built-in browser that lets the AI open, read, and interact with web pages directly inside the development environment. Write actions on external sites are screened by classifier…
https://the-decoder.com/claude-code-now-has-a-built-in-browser-that-lets-the-ai-read-click-and-type-on-external-websites/An economics professor at Brown University suspects most of his 86 students used AI to cheat on a take-home exam that averaged 96 percent. When he made the final an in-person test, 18 students droppe…
https://the-decoder.com/grades-dropped-from-96-to-48-percent-when-a-brown-professor-made-students-take-the-exam-without-ai/One in four longer social media posts is entirely AI-generated, according to a Pangram analysis. LinkedIn leads with 41 percent of long-form posts flagged as AI-written. The platform made up only a t…
https://the-decoder.com/linkedin-is-the-undisputed-king-of-long-form-ai-slop-according-to-a-study-spanning-five-platforms/Apple's self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company's chips the powerful AI performers they are. Early in the development of the self-driving …
https://www.theverge.com/tech/964519/apple-silicon-self-driving-car-ai-m7-ultraMeta pulled a controversial feature from its new Muse Image model after widespread criticism. The feature let users generate AI images of other people by @-mentioning their public Instagram accounts.…
https://the-decoder.com/meta-kills-muse-image-feature-that-let-anyone-generate-ai-photos-of-instagram-users-without-consent/A yard sign opposing a planned data center is displayed along Route 54 in Mount Carmel Township Northumberland County. | Image: Getty Images This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down on…
https://www.theverge.com/column/963346/ai-data-centers-fightPosted also on the EA Forum. Written mostly at AFFINE. Theoretical, some parts are hard to read; consider reading the next post instead. Introduction: motivation Anyone interested in creating an arti…
https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/Z8kLbceGBMWB5HGfn/from-wantons-to-moral-agentsOpenAI CEO Sam Altman now says he's "pretty sure" AI has created more jobs than it's eliminated. That's a sharp turn from his earlier warnings about entire professions disappearing. Anthropic CEO Dar…
https://the-decoder.com/openai-ceo-altman-is-now-pretty-sure-ai-is-net-job-creating-which-is-quite-the-pivot-from-predicting-mass-layoffs/The user could write up the metaethical argument — the one developed in Part One, refined — and submit it as feedback to Anthropic, publish it, or engage with researchers working on AI alignment and …
https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/vPaXtarnJ37kGfPdJ/independent-alignment-of-language-modelsThe cross stitch pattern is by NathNolu on Etsy. If you're reading an Oura Ring 5 review at The Verge, you likely fall into one of two camps: newcomers looking for a smartwatch alternative, or Oura u…
https://www.theverge.com/tech/964386/oura-ring-5-review-smart-ring-wearablesA photo of a lightbulb glowing purple. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The state of the smart home can be frustrating, because it is just so obvious how things ought to work. You should b…
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