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Razer’s next big black-and-green gamer chair is designed to make you hear and feel every in-game gunshot or the spine-rattling rumble of a speeding motorcycle. The Razer Soma Pro takes the same basic ergonomic design of the Soma Chroma from earlier this year but adds in back and bottom haptics alongside speakers built into the neck rest. There are two new chairs filling out Razer’s Soma line, one called the Soma Sensa HD Haptics and the other a top-end thr

On Tuesday, Anthropic launched a new “Mythos-class” model, Fable 5, describing it as being more powerful than any other model the company had ever made generally available. It’s a significantly tamer version of Mythos, the behemoth model which Anthropic announced in April but has thus far withheld from the public due to its alleged sophistication at finding and exploiting cybersecurity vulnerabilities. If users ask Fable 5 about potentially sensitive subje

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says Sen. Bernie Sanders won’t be seen as sufficiently progressive in two years because he wants the U.S. government to take just a 50% ownership stake in the country’s largest AI companies. Karp told CNBC on Wednesday that full nationalization is likely coming—and will become the mainstream position of the left—because the AI revolution is going to radically change the world. “You know how people don’t think I’m progressive? In two

Art directors are really having a moment. Not only did the art director on indie sensation Obsession make waves recently with a round of discourse about compensation, but now the Art Directors Guild is drawing a line in the sand between itself and Hollywood icon Martin Scorsese after the living legend decided to align himself with a generative AI company. In a statement, the organization that represents art department workers accused Scorsese of “turning h

It seems to be one of the most pressing questions in the world of AI these days. If artificial intelligence tools cause massive disruptions in the economy and unemployment soars, what should AI companies and the government do about it? Anthropic released a new economic policy framework on Wednesday that aims to tackle these questions, and the company has pledged $350 million to help work through solutions. But it remains to be seen how the federal governme

China is weaponizing ChatGPT to spread anti-AI propaganda aimed at Americans, according to OpenAI. In a report published Wednesday, the company said it shut down a fleet of bogus ChatGPT accounts generating content for social media posts that depicted data centers as being responsible for American households’ rising energy costs. The creators of the accounts used VPNs (ChatGPT isn’t available in China) and appear to have been “conducting work for Chinese p

Who in the world is Elias Thorne? He’s a regular fixture in stories told by chatbots, as first spotted by software engineer Daniel May, but no one knows why… until now. According to a new preprint research paper first reported by 404 Media, the proliferation of the legend of Elias might be related to guardrails put in place for AI models during safety and alignment training. If you need to catch up on the Elias Thorne of it all, the paper published by rese

There have been a lot of anxious murmurings lately about the price of AI going way up. Developers are spending more money training and running AI systems as competition thickens and the electrical grid gets squeezed. Customers, meanwhile, are shelling out more in order to get access to the latest models. Earlier this week, Anthropic—moving towards what’s expected to be a historic IPO—released Fable 5, a dialed-down version of the secretive and supposedly e

Grand Theft Auto VI is finally set to come out this November, after being in development for roughly a decade. For many fans, the wait has felt even longer considering Grand Theft Auto V first came out in 2013. Now, one AI startup founder apparently can’t wait any longer, so he’s trying to vibe code his own version. “Day 1 of building GTA 6. Still feels fake typing that out,” wrote 25-year-old Ziwen Xu on X this Wednesday. “Upgraded to Claude Max 20x just

According to a statement posted to its website on Friday, Anthropic was forced to “abruptly disable” two of its most prized frontier AI models in response to a highly restrictive U.S. government order. “We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible,” the statement says. The government action in question is an “export control directive” saying foreign nationals may not use the models inside or outside of the U.S