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It looks like investors hoping to get a piece of the Anthropic IPO pie are going to have to wait in line. Orders for shares of the AI company—whose stock market debut is expected to be one of (if not the) biggest in the history of Wall Street—have already exceeded the number currently on offer several times over, according to a Wednesday report from Bloomberg. The report (which cited anonymous sources and didn’t specify exactly how far demand for the share

When it comes to video games, second impressions matter almost as much as the first. There’ve been many major franchises with decent beginnings whose immediate sequels helped those franchises take off and feel like the developers’ fuller vision. Examples are plentiful, but one of the most interesting is Watch Dogs, Ubisoft’s spin on Grand Theft Auto with the core mechanic of hacking anything or anyone through your phone. That first game didn’t fully live u

Want to know what’s coming next for your AMD-based desktop PC? We can glean an inkling of what’s coming next from AMD through its latest Zen 6 EPYC enterprise-grade processors. These are server-level chips that are built for a specific use case, so you can’t apples-to-apples compare them with any kind of desktop PC-level chip. They are, however, using the same upcoming microarchitecture. For one, these chips are built on TSMC’s N2P processing node, meaning

I have a lot of thoughts about the finale of VisionQuest, which I’ll get into in our recap later today. But right now, all anyone can talk about is that end-credits scene, and who am I to deny you some wild speculation about what it could possibly mean? Let’s talk about what happened at the end of VisionQuest. VisionQuest actually has two end-credits scenes. The first one ties more into the show, while the second one ties more directly into Avengers: Dooms

Be nice to Claude; it’s the law. On Thursday, Anthropic published a new Usage Policy update that, among other things, has made it against the rules for users to abuse their chatbot. Under the new policy, users can be cut off for peppering Claude with mean language. “We’ve added a prohibition on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models. The policy update is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly to

Donald Trump hosted a ceremony at the White House on Thursday, dubbed “A New Golden Age Summit,” handing out awards to his most favored tech oligarchs. It was an embarrassing display, with the 80-year-old president giving out medals to people like Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, and Jensen Huang. You may recall that as recently as last year, Musk was rage-tweeting that Trump was in the Epstein files. And now he’s getting a medal from the guy. The president also se

Fun fact: Billionaire PayPal, Founders Fund, and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, when he’s not busy exerting his ghastly influence over the U.S. government, moonlights as a touring theorist and lecturer on Christianity, the end times, and the antichrist. Thiel and his team have tried to create an air of secrecy around the ‘Antichrist’ lectures, which began with a 2025 series in San Francisco. Thiel’s complete lack of qualifications to speak on theology, o

Some AI researchers have been raising alarms this year that AI could lead to human extinction within the next decade. Now, major AI companies are reportedly running scenarios for how they would handle the fallout from a catastrophic AI incident. Axios reports that many AI insiders believe a major AI-related incident could happen within the next six to 12 months. They anticipate a large-scale event such as a cyberattack that could disrupt access to financia

Elon Musk spent much of 2025 taking a chainsaw to the federal government and making the lives of Americans so much worse. But the people Musk harmed are merely human. The trillionaire tech oligarch thinks you shouldn’t be mean to robots because they might have feelings or something. News broke this week that Anthropic has added a prohibition to its terms of service against anyone who might “repeatedly act cruelly toward our models.” Put more plainly, you c

Last month, Pavel Rabtsevich—a 28-year-old product manager living in Spain—was hunting for planets. He didn’t have any formal training in astronomy or even a telescope. What he did have was an internet connection and subscriptions to multiple AI tools. He’d been combing through public astronomical data captured by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a space telescope operated by MIT astronomers and launched by NASA in 2018. As its name sugges

We can replace human workers with AI agents, but we can’t take sexism out of the workplace. A recently published study from researchers at Ireland’s University of Limerick found that existing conscious and unconscious gender biases extend to AI agents, resulting in female-presenting bots getting paid less than their male-presenting counterparts. The study took 189 knowledge workers and placed them in a virtual reality office where they were made to work al

When is a patent just an idea and when is it a plan for the future? That question has been raised in recent weeks as the leading expert on surveillance pricing promoted her new book. Walmart is evidently upset about the national conversation, and this week the company denied that its patents for technologies to maximize sales would be used for surveillance pricing. Lindsay Owens, the author of Gouged: The End of a Fair Price—and What That Means for Your Wa

In the 21st century publishing world, I can tell you from experience that even before LLMs, book authors who didn’t step in and do things themselves—or hire a freelancer with part of their advance—could often end up seeing surprisingly little effort go into things like design and publicity copy. But a new, anonymously-sourced report from Wired suggests AI is taking things from bad to worse. Wired talked to “more than two dozen” anonymous publishing industr

Like the parent of a teen who ordered a box of illegal peptides for looksmaxxing purposes, Anthropic says that as far as internal evaluations are concerned, it has cut off its models’ internet access until it’s satisfied that they can stay out of trouble. Anthropic announced this in a report published Friday called “Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use.” It’s not a surprising title given all the attention model misalig