Archive: July 2019

Anthropic uses its IPO letter to renew its pledge that Claude will never show ads Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 27, 2026 Anthropic promises once more to keep ads out of Claude's chat. In its IPO filing cover letter, the company explains why it is passing on a potential massive revenue stream that funds much of the internet. "People bring some of their most important work and most personal questions to Claude, and we wan

“Over the past year, Character.ai has taken meaningful steps to sustain and improve its business in the face of significant legal, regulatory, and operational headwinds. After a comprehensive review of the available alternatives, the board determined that this court-supervised sale process provides the Company with the best opportunity to maximize value for all stakeholders,” Character.AI CEO Colin Adams said in a statement. The startup has also agreed to

General Compute co-founder and CEO Finn Puklowski is unfazed. He’s bullish on CoreWeave’s chances, and thinks Musk is just talking his book to drive down the prices of the GPUs he wants to buy. Fears of a chip-led collapse are “massively overstated. I have people calling me up every single week asking me to do TPUs, GPUs, any chip, to get them more compute.” Just as important, he says, Anthropic’s bullish S-1 is “settling fears for today.” General Compute

The announcement came Wednesday during Alphabet’s third-quarter earnings call, as the company reported $127.6 billion in revenue, up 25% year over year. But Search advertising growth continued to decelerate, and Alphabet shares fell 8% following the results. Google Search revenue grew 12% year over year in the third quarter, down from 17% growth in the second quarter and 19% in the first quarter. The slowdown puts added pressure on Google to turn its expan

Anthropic adds bank account access to Claude so users can track their spending Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 6, 2026 Anthropic lets Claude users connect their bank accounts and ask questions about their money. The new feature, called Personal Finance, gives Claude read-only access. It can't move, manage, or invest funds. The connection runs through Plaid, so Claude never sees a user's bank password. Users can br

SpaceXSI apparently cuts Grok Bot quotas weeks after Musk called it his fastest-growing product Manuel Uth Nov 2, 2026 SpaceX is apparently cutting Grok Bot usage limits. According to the Telegraph, several users saw their quotas slashed in half over the weekend. Elon Musk responded to complaints on X on Sunday, saying that "the cost of running Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue." He didn't confirm a cut outright, but the statement speaks

Newsreel, the media company founded by former Forbes and Newsweek reporter Jack Brewster and Brijesh Tiwari, hosted the event, and the lineup was heavy-hitting. Kenneth Schlenker, co-founder of the focus app Opal, sat down for a fireside chat about “the state of attention,” and Aryan Ranjan, who built the campaign management software Baraza, gave a midterm forecast. I, meanwhile, was moderating a panel on data centers. Brewster said the goal was for people

The filing seems to warn that the company is on the cusp of creating a model capable of recursive self-improvement (RSI). RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return, in which AI builds itself into something powerful enough that it slips beyond human control and may be indifferent to the damage it causes

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The brain-as-computer metaphor shaped modern AI but may be misleading the consciousness debate Manuel Uth Nov 8, 2026 AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "NewsArticle", "headline": "The brain-as-computer met