In the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, AI ranked last among campaign issues: only 56 percent of respondents cited AI and data centers as an important factor.…
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Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI
Catherine Wu, the founding product lead for Claude Code, is leaving Anthropic for OpenAI, where she’ll head up product management for “Core Products” and…
Schools that turn off Google’s AI will lose search too starting in 2027
Starting in 2027, Google plans to turn off AI features in its school products by default, letting schools decide what to enable. The catch: schools that…
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a hardware device from scratch in under a week
OpenAI’s hardware team used GPT-6 Astra to design a device for the Codex coding agent in under a week, handling everything from the enclosure to the…
Rapid LLM development is outrunning the research meant to explain it, study finds
Stanford researchers tested 50 widely cited claims about LLMs against 20 current models. 44 percent of the findings are already “expired,” and another 34…
ChatGPT can now turn text prompts and photos into animated GIFs with OpenAI’s Images 2.6 model
OpenAI is adding a GIF feature to ChatGPT. With the new Images 2.6 model, users can create animated GIFs from text prompts or photos and then adjust speed…
AI agents take over at SETI’s Allen Telescope Array, scanning for extraterrestrial intelligence
The SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen are now using AI agents at the Allen Telescope Array to control the telescope and analyze incoming radio…
OpenAI acquires Pierre Computer Company to make Git keep up with AI coding agents
OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer Company, the startup whose libraries already power the coding agent Codex. Combined with OpenAI’s recently launched Git…
Anthropic’s text watermark is easy to bypass on several older Claude models
Anthropic is rolling out text watermarks to four more Claude models ahead of the EU AI Act’s December deadline. But on older models like Claude Opus 4.6…
New open-source benchmark reveals reasoning as the biggest bottleneck for AI in cloud operations
CloudOpsBench is a new open-source benchmark that measures how well AI agents handle typical DevOps tasks in the cloud, from fixing services and removing…