AI #176 Part 1: Doing It Live
OpenAI released an upgraded voice mode for its AI models, while AI writing from systems like Claude is becoming more prominent and harder to ignore. Ethan Mollick used Fable, an AI tool, to generate a…
OpenAI released an upgraded voice mode for its AI models, while AI writing from systems like Claude is becoming more prominent and harder to ignore. Ethan Mollick used Fable, an AI tool, to generate a…
Ethan Mollick, a Wharton professor and AI researcher, gave Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 access to Unity and an MCP server with a single prompt to create a first-person shooter, resulting in a playable W…
A 30-month study of 26,811 Chinese secondary school students found that using generative AI boosted homework scores by 18% and reduced completion time by 30%, but led to a 20% drop in closed-book exam…
An analysis of frontier AI model release cadence shows Anthropic and OpenAI accelerating their release rates since 2023, while Google, Meta, and DeepSeek have not. The pattern is consistent with a for…
A viral hoax misattributed a fictional AI model named Le Chaton Fat to Mistral AI, after Mistral itself posted and deleted a satirical announcement for a 24-trillion-parameter model. Community memes i…
A viral meme about a fictional AI model called 'Le Chaton Fat' from French startup Mistral has spread across tech circles, despite the model being fake. The joke emerged after Mistral rebranded its ch…
Wharton professor Ethan Mollick reported on June 9 that Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model executed multi-page specifications for up to a dozen hours, outperforming public models he had used in sustaine…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available version of its Mythos model, which University of Pennsylvania AI researcher Ethan Mollick used to generate fully playable video games fr…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei released a new version of the Mythos AI model that demonstrates PhD-level reasoning in microeconomics, generating and answering its own original exam questions. The model pr…
Ethan Mollick reports that working with frontier AI models has shifted from a collaborative process to a commissioning relationship, where users lose visibility and control over the model's decision-m…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, a model that flags its uncertainty more readily and is roughly four times less likely to let code flaws slip by unremarked. The release comes as industry leaders ar…
Two phrases that have historically signaled financial bubbles — "this time is different" and "nobody knows anything" — are now dominating conversations about the AI economy, with Wharton professor Eth…