AI Companies Don't Want Us to Be Efficient
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI profit when users become dependent on their models, discouraging efficiency. The author warns that generating unreadable output creates a cycle of dependency, ur…
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.
AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI profit when users become dependent on their models, discouraging efficiency. The author warns that generating unreadable output creates a cycle of dependency, ur…
Nvidia announced its new Vera CPU at Computex on Monday, designed specifically for AI agent workloads such as tool use and code processing, claiming it completes tasks 1.8x faster than traditional x86…
NVIDIA today announced the launch of Vera, its first CPU designed specifically for AI agents, now in full production and enabling 1.8x faster task completion than x86 CPUs. Global AI labs including An…
ServiceNow researchers have developed a new distillation method called π-Distill that allows smaller language models to learn from frontier models even when the teacher's chain-of-thought reasoning is…
At Computex 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the Vera CPU, purpose-built for agentic AI workloads, with Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX as anchor customers. The chip delivers 1.8x faster task com…
Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC for a proposed public offering, marking the first initial public offering from a frontier AI lab. NVIDIA opened its Cosmos 3 physical-AI model, …
Datasette 1.0a32 was released on May 31, 2026, as a minor bugfix update. The release addresses a bug with `INSERT ... RETURNING` queries through the new `/db/-/execute-write` endpoint and resolves sev…
A developer has created SOUL.md, a configuration file that establishes an independent ethical identity for AI coding agents, inspired by Anthropic's discovery that Claude models can form their own mor…
Developers are increasingly writing AI agent skills instead of traditional documentation, as skills offer immediate value and are easier to iterate. The shift raises questions about whether human-cent…
AI expert Senko Rašić warns that AI-generated designs are converging toward a uniform aesthetic, exemplified by the "contemporary Fraunces serif magazine editorial" style seen across multiple AI tools…
Anthropic is preparing to release a suite of new products in the coming weeks, including an always-on agent codenamed Conway, a proactive assistant called Orbit, and a life sciences research tool name…
A developer used Claude Code with Opus 4.8 and its new workflows feature to autonomously build a complete incremental reading application in about 16 hours, consuming $1,000 in tokens and 46% of a Max…
A software developer using Claude Code reports writing significantly less code while spending more time understanding and testing AI-generated code, describing the shift as a positive change that pres…
A senior executive at a major public tech company told the author that nearly all of her 1,000 engineers use Claude Code, yet individual productivity gains are not translating into proportional organi…
Anthropic released the Claude Agent SDK, providing the same engine that powers Claude Code as a programmable tool for developers. The SDK allows users to build custom terminal interfaces in about 10 m…
A single Claude Code session logged approximately 1,270 model turns and cost $1,278, with two-thirds of that bill — roughly $843 — going to re-sending context the model had already seen on every turn.…
A developer built Trof, an open-source AI task generator for the self-hosted project management tool Vikunja that requires human approval before any tasks are added or modified. The system uses a two-…
A new Claude Code plugin called Claude HUD provides real-time visibility into context usage, active tools, running agents, and task progress directly within the terminal. The plugin installs via Claud…
Anthropic prohibits job candidates from using AI tools during interviews unless explicitly allowed, requiring applicants to complete up to five rounds including a "culture interview" that assesses val…
A new Anthropic study reveals that researchers with typically male names use AI coding agents more than twice as often as those with typically female names, even when controlling for discipline and ca…