Anthropic updated its Sonnet model to version 4.6 today, and the company says it’s the most capable Sonnet model yet, with upgrades in coding, computer usage, long context reasoning, agent scheduling, knowledge work, and design. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the default for users who have Free and Pro plans and has an updated 1M token … Read more
Anthropic said today that customers using Claude without a subscription can create files, use connectors and acquire skills, all features that previously required a paid plan. The announcement comes two days after OpenAI said it was starting to roll out ads to ChatGPT users who don’t have a paid subscription or who use the most … Read more
Antropic is the latest artificial intelligence company to promise to reduce the impact of its data centers on the electricity bills of nearby residents. The company said it would pay higher monthly electricity charges to cover 100 percent of the upgrades needed to connect its data centers to the grid. “This includes shares of these … Read more
As Anthropic expands into India, a local software company filed a lawsuit saying it was already using the name “Anthropic” and highlighted how the rapid global push from AI firms could clash with local incumbents. The filing comes as Anthropic deepens its focus on India, announcing an India office last October and recently appointing former … Read more
Following last year’s trend of showing off AI in multi-million dollar commercials, the 2026 Super Bowl commercials have gone one step further, using AI to both create ads and promote the latest AI products. Love it or hate it, this technology has become a star in its own right alongside the latest movie trailers and … Read more
The Super Bowl is this Sunday in Silicon Valley, and the Patriots-Seahawks game at Levi’s Stadium will be loaded with tech money. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan is expected to be there. Apple’s Tim Cook too. (It’s become a fixture of the Super Bowl since Apple Music began sponsoring the halftime show a few years ago.) … Read more
Following last year’s trend of showing off AI in multi-million dollar commercials, the 2026 Super Bowl commercials have gone one step further, using AI to both create ads and promote the latest AI products. Love it or hate it, this technology has become a star in its own right alongside the latest movie trailers and … Read more
On Thursday, WordPress launched a new Claude connector that allows site owners to share back-end data with Anthropic’s chatbot system. Users can control what specific data they want to share, and access can also be revoked if the user chooses. Notably, Claude has read-only access, which means he won’t be able to change anything in … Read more
Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark that measures the capabilities of AI agents in professional tasks such as law and business analytics. At the time, the results were pretty dismal, with every major lab scoring under 25%, so we concluded that lawyers were safe from AI displacement, at least for now. But AI … Read more
On Monday, OpenAI launched Codex, an agent-based coding tool offered to software developers. OpenAI also released a new Codex supercharger model today: the GPT-5.3 Codex. The company says this model transforms Codex from an agent that can only “write and review code” to one that can do “nearly everything that developers and computing professionals do, … Read more