AI Scraping on the Cheap
A developer running My Mind is Racing, which tracks over 53,000 events and 22,000 organizations, details a cost-cutting approach to AI-assisted web scraping that minimizes LLM usage. The method priori…
Anthropic is an AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei. It develops the Claude family of AI assistants and focuses on AI interpretability and safety research.
A developer running My Mind is Racing, which tracks over 53,000 events and 22,000 organizations, details a cost-cutting approach to AI-assisted web scraping that minimizes LLM usage. The method priori…
An independent test measuring ten buyer questions found that only 1 of 30 top-three Google organic results appeared among the pages cited by an AI answer engine on the same day, with domain overlap of…
A procurement census of 31 AI agent feature and delivery-surface combinations across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and AWS, read on September 9, 2026, finds that zero-data-retention (ZDR) eligibility var…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 both price standard input and output at $10 and $50 per million tokens, but their cache read rates diverge sharply: Astra charges $1 per million t…
Aispace.sh released an open-source, scriptable CLI for secure temporary file sharing designed for AI agents and humans, featuring expiring links, predictable JSON output, and optional local age X25519…
A developer's blog post explains that an AI agent is not a smarter language model but a model surrounded by five parts—tools, memory, and a framework—that enable it to act. The framework, such as Lang…
Harmony proposed sunsetting its layer-1 blockchain and reissuing its ONE token as an ERC-20 on Ethereum, citing overwhelming threats from state-sponsored hackers and AI agents. The non-binding proposa…
OpenCode v2 beta, a complete rewrite by Anomaly, replaces Bun with Node.js and Tauri with Electron to fix memory bloat and rendering inconsistencies, and introduces a service-first architecture with m…
OpenAI's codebase contains references to a managed agent service with configurable environments, skills, plugins, and deployment controls, according to TestingCatalog, ahead of OpenAI's DevDay on Sept…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its most intelligent model yet, highlighting its computer use capability, which builds on the Codex/ChatGPT harness from the 5.6 model family and outperforms previous visi…
A proposal suggests training large language models to halt output upon encountering specific 'poisoned strings' as a kill-switch mechanism, citing prior examples like Anthropic's refusal-triggering st…
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki called for voluntary slowdowns in AI development until shared safety standards are established, warning that no lab's safeguards are adequate for continued full-s…
Authors receiving payments from Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement reported that publishers and literary agents are claiming shares of their individual payments, according to TechCrunch. Un…
Cyberattacks powered by AI agents are escalating across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta infrastructure, with organizations experiencing a 20 percent year-over-year increase, according to CIO.com and Wired…
SemiAnalysis published the first third-party inference results for Google's TPUv7 Ironwood, showing up to 50% better performance per dollar than NVIDIA's B200/B300 in apples-to-apples comparisons. The…
UN human rights chief Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council in Geneva that a 'handful of men' holds 'almost unlimited power' over AI and called for urgent safeguards, warning that advanced AI 'cou…
A developer from daoxe, a multi-model gateway, published a checklist of ten questions to answer before routing production traffic through a third-party LLM endpoint. The checklist covers wire protocol…
A developer published an AI agent evaluation playbook, a repeatable test battery for vetting whether models running inside agent frameworks can be trusted with semi-sensitive content and real write ac…
Artificial Analysis released version 4.3 of its Intelligence Index, upgrading Terminal-Bench to 4.0 and swapping τ³-Banking for AutomationBench-AA, which now places Claude Fable 5.1 (max, with fallbac…
Anthropic is reportedly spending $517 billion on compute, a figure that highlights the escalating costs of AI infrastructure and the widening gap between major players, with OpenAI's spending at $750 …