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Day: June 17, 2026
Research pulls back curtain on ClaudeResearch pulls back curtain on Claude
Anybody who’s been playing around with AI this year in any meaningful way will have noticed that the “models” have taken a back seat to the “orchestration layer,” the non-AI operational tasks that allow the technology to function in the real world (If this were a fancy restaurant, the AI ...
Meta pursues muddled AI strategyMeta pursues muddled AI strategy
Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth’s apology to staff Monday for the company’s massive layoffs and AI missteps may be a first move to addressing sapped morale but it belies a bigger problem: its AI strategy still doesn’t seem to make sense. The company is borrowing like mad to build massive ...
Anthropic takes the path of most resistanceAnthropic takes the path of most resistance
Reed’s view Anthropic has, once again, found its future in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. None of this is necessary. The thing most people don’t realize is that Anthropic isn’t fundamentally opposed to the current administration’s economic goals. It isn’t the “woke” or anti-capitalist caricature that the administration has ...
The tech behind agentic commerceThe tech behind agentic commerce
It’s getting harder to tell the agents apart from the humans. For cybersecurity companies, identifying a digital agent crawling a website used to be enough evidence of malicious activity. Now, digital agents are representing human users and making purchases online, prompting sellers to reconfigure their businesses to better serve agents ...
‘A neoliberal nightmare’: my ride on the Vegas Loop – Elon Musk’s answer to traffic jams‘A neoliberal nightmare’: my ride on the Vegas Loop – Elon Musk’s answer to traffic jams
Ten years ago, after complaining that traffic was ‘driving him nuts’, Musk’s Boring Company began building underground tunnels to ease congestion on the roads. Did he overpromise and underdeliver? It’s another blindingly bright day in Las Vegas but I’m 30ft underground and strapped in for a rocket ride to the ...
‘You only have one brain’: The money coach who says your mental health is key to wealth‘You only have one brain’: The money coach who says your mental health is key to wealth
After years of anxiety and burnout, finance expert Shang Saavedra says the path to financial freedom may start with your therapist Shang Saavedra was an immigrant family’s dream: She earned stellar grades and made her way to Harvard. Upon graduation she was making six figures, living frugally and investing at ...
Will it take a ‘Chernobyl-scale disaster’ for us to regulate AI? | Stuart RussellWill it take a ‘Chernobyl-scale disaster’ for us to regulate AI? | Stuart Russell
Unsafe AI systems are leading to cyber weapons of mass destruction Stuart Russell is a computer scientist known for his contributions to AI and a new Guardian US columnist The AI company Anthropic has been making major headlines recently. Its trillion-dollar IPO plan and its blood feud with secretary of ...
Okra up north: how a forgotten heirloom travelled the African diaspora to TorontoOkra up north: how a forgotten heirloom travelled the African diaspora to Toronto
Okra holds a special place in many African-descended communities, and a Canadian farmer with Jamaican roots is growing a very old variety When Nicole Austin was growing up in Oshawa, Canada, her Jamaican family couldn’t find the foods they enjoyed back on the island. No callaloo, garden eggs or okra. ...
‘Addiction is proof there is a devil. Recovery is proof there is a God’: Irish rockers Bleech 9:3 on struggle, sobriety and their stunning debut‘Addiction is proof there is a devil. Recovery is proof there is a God’: Irish rockers Bleech 9:3 on struggle, sobriety and their stunning debut
After two friends sponsored each other in Alcoholics Anonymous, they started making music. As they gear up for a summer of 40 festivals, the band tell their harrowing yet uplifting story On stage in a Camden pub, Barry Quinlan, frontman of Irish rockers Bleech 9:3, shares the intensity of Joy ...