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It feels like day two billion of casting rumors for the next James Bond. We’ve heard names, we’ve seen short lists, there have been last-minute curveballs, and yet, so far, nothing is official. A new report, however, offers some interesting information suggesting that while no one is necessarily out of the running just yet, Robert Pattinson is the clear frontrunner. The main reason for that is a look at the “test deals” Pattinson and his fellow actors sign

On June 2, about a week before Anthropic released its Claude Fable 5 model, it announced it had added 150 new organizations to Project Glasswing, the program that allowed (theoretically) trustworthy companies, governments, and other entities to try out the cybersecurity capabilities of Anthropic’s (theoretically) too-dangerous-to-release AI model, Claude Mythos Preview. This, according to a new report from the Washington Post, was part of the move that pla

Since ChatGPT came onto the scene in late 2022, there has been a singular message from tech executives to the broader workforce regarding the new technology: it is coming for your job. They have insisted, sometimes in the language of a flowery, futuristic utopia and sometimes as a straight-up threat, that artificial intelligence will result in a complete upheaval in the economy, wipe out entire categories of jobs, and fundamentally change the human relatio

Noted AI critic and bubble watch enthusiast Ed Zitron has been teasing a major scoop for days, and we finally got it: He seems to have gotten his hands on OpenAI’s financial documents and found the company has been burning through cash at an astronomical rate—significantly more than had been reported previously. The figures were verified by the Financial Times, which seemed less alarmed than Zitron. Zitron found that OpenAI lost around $38.5 billion in 202

Microsoft, now free of the shackles that previously tied it to OpenAI, apparently has eyes for other AI models—particularly ones that are cheap. According to a report from Axios, tokenmaxxing is taking its toll on Microsoft’s AI tool Copilot, and it is looking at the possibility of using its own version of the Chinese open-source model DeepSeek to keep its costs down. Assuming Microsoft were to take this path, the company would reportedly use a modified an

OpenAI reportedly no longer dominates the AI assistant market. A report from Sensor Tower (reported on by TechCrunch) says that although OpenAI’s ChatGPT is still the number one-ranked AI assistant product, it can now brag only the plurality, not the majority of users. ChatGPT’s grip on AI assistant market share was much stronger at the start of this year, when it reportedly had more than 50%, but as of May 31, it was down to an all-time low of 46.4%, Tech

Do you remember, in the midst of the absolute worst of the crypto phase, when an iced tea company added the word “Blockchain” to their name and saw their stock price spike by almost 400%? We’re officially at that stage of the artificial intelligence hype machine. Allbirds recently announced an AI pivot, and is actually going through with it. The shoe company is changing its name and bringing in a new CEO to lead the shift. The company has abandoned its arg

The Trump administration’s ban on the use of Anthropic’s most advanced AI models—Fable 5 and Mythos 5—has been in effect for five days, with no clear end in sight. During that time, questions about the motives behind the directive have steadily grown. Ostensibly, the government based the ban on national security concerns. Federal officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, reportedly learned from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy last week about research co

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Yann LeCun, one of the “godfathers of AI,” is in something of a sweet spot professionally. He’s still well respected in the field he helped define; he’s free from the control of the big frontier labs that dominate the space; and his own project is so young that no one expects much of it yet. So he’s making the most of his freedom by taking shots at everyone else—especially Elon Musk. In an interview with CNBC, LeCun decided to call it as he sees it—and it

Bernie Sanders is making the case in Washington that since modern AI systems were built using the intellectual and creative outputs of all of humanity, the revenues they generate should go directly to the people—not just to a small cohort of tech moguls. On Thursday, Senator Sanders—an Independent from Vermont—introduced a bill which, if passed, would create a sovereign wealth fund for the United States’ AI industry. The fund would be valued at roughly $7