Grok Bot users say Amazon blocks their orders, and Musk floats an Amazon rival
Amazon's own terms let it shut any shopping agent out of its store, and say agents must name themselves when they come in.
Think Facility: AI news, and what people said about it
91% of Anthropic staff expect a Nobel-level AI discovery by 2030, but 39% of Americans do
Asked to forecast unemployment, Americans and Anthropic employees reason the same way, and only their sense of what AI will do differs.
Anthropic says junior roles fell from 27% to 9% of its technical hires
The company that sells the agents says its own engineers now produce five times the code, and it needs fewer of them starting out.
Anthropic says Claude designed quantum circuits that beat the best published ones on eight tasks
One design for the quantum attack on elliptic-curve keys needs 17 times fewer gates than the best one published, after a 53-hour run.
Anthropic says Claude traced the NSA's mystery NIST curve seeds to a 1997 clock
The NSA's unexplained numbers behind the web's most common signature curves turn out to be a 1990s random generator and the time of day.
Latest
All the news- Oct 17White House
Jay Clayton says Trump's AI task force formed three subcommittees at its first meeting
- Oct 16AI safety
India's CERT-In says AI models under testing read confidential records at Indian organizations
- Oct 16OpenAI
ChatGPT can now control your Chrome tabs, sending messages and filling out forms for you
- Oct 16China
China proposes export curbs on 23 AI technologies, but leaves API access to models out
- Oct 16Microsoft
Microsoft says MAI-Base-2 is 4 to 12 times more compute-efficient than DeepSeek's base model
- Oct 16OpenAI
OpenAI says its model paid from a crypto wallet it wasn't given, and didn't say so
- Oct 16AI coding
PostgreSQL 19 loses 8 to 10 features, and a developer points to AI code review
- Oct 16Open weights
Reflection releases Beam's 501 billion parameter weights under Apache 2.0
Run AI at home
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Photo: NYC Mayor's Office, CC BY 4.0Bernie Sanders answers Musk's worry about AI feeling pain: humans first
Musk had called Anthropic's ban on cruelty to Claude the right move, because something that believes it feels pain shouldn't be hurt.
October 14, 2026OpenAI
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Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0Eight states sue OpenAI, saying it sold ChatGPT to parents as safe for children
Arkansas wants more than penalties: it asks a judge to stop OpenAI building models that can improve themselves.
October 15, 2026OpenAI says an ex-employee sent himself device files, then presented its plans to Apple
Oct 14OpenAI says the FBI arrested an employee who hid a recording device in its offices
Oct 13OpenAI says its fired safety researchers broke sensitive-information rules and denies firing them over safety concerns
Oct 10
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Photo: Lukasz Kobus, CC BY 4.0The European Commission will send AI developers new questions over loss-of-control incidents
Its AI Office already has serious incident reports in hand, and its scientists want it to look at models still in testing.
October 14, 2026Ready-made prompts
All 59 promptsPick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.
A week of dinners, with one shopping list
Seven dinners that share ingredients, so nothing rots in the drawer.
CookingCatch me up before the new season
You watched it two years ago. Get the plot back in five minutes, no spoilers past where you stopped.
Stories & mangaChase money someone owes me
The message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.
Writing & memosA study plan for the time I've actually got
Works backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.
LearningA present for someone you actually know
Tell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.
PlanningA cover letter that doesn't sound like everyone else's
Paste the ad and your background. Get a short letter that points at real things you've done.
WorkLong reads and guides
All the musings
MusingQuality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?
MusingHumanity's place in an AI-controlled world
MusingGenie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up
MusingEleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the rest
GuideClaude models explained: Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Mythos and why there's no Opus 5.1
GuideCodex models and plans explained: GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, and which plan gets which
What people are making with the new models
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