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Claude can now generate animated explainer videos and live data dashboards from text prompts

Anthropic launched two new beta features for Claude. Dashboards turns data sources like BigQuery and Snowflake into live dashboards from text prompts. Motion generates animated explainer videos from ...
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Being mean to Claude can now get your account suspended under Anthropic's new TOS

Anthropic's updated usage policy bans sustained abuse of Claude and tightens restrictions on propaganda, drone weaponization, ...
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AI math breakthroughs have Ethereum researchers debating how fast wallet security could collapse

Ethereum researcher Justin Drake is urging the crypto industry to prepare a "bunker mode" for a scenario where AI-powered ...
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AI-powered hacking tools enabled a likely single attacker to breach multiple South Korean banks

According to CrowdStrike, a suspected Chinese-speaking attacker hacked multiple South Korean financial institutions. At ...
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Teen's AI-guided mountain hike ends with a helicopter rescue and a lesson in common sense

A 16-year-old planned his hiking route on Crown Mountain near Vancouver using Anthropic's Claude and had to be airlifted off ...
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Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives with massive price cuts proving the AI pricing arms race is far from over

Anthropic's new Claude Haiku 5.5 crushes its predecessor in benchmarks, jumping from 15.7 to 72.4 percent on the OSWorld ...
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OpenAI launches Decisions API that reduces complex evaluations to yes, no, or pick one

OpenAI's new Decisions API classifies text and images about ten times faster than the Responses API, returning yes/no ...
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Google says 180 billion images and videos now carry SynthID watermarks as detector goes public

Google's AI watermark detector SynthID is now public. Anyone can check whether images, videos, or audio were created by Google's AI or partners like OpenAI and Nvidia. More than 180 billion pieces of ...
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ChatGPT rated "unacceptable risk" for teens after parental alerts failed during suicide conversations

OpenAI's teen safety features for ChatGPT failed an independent audit. After more than 4,000 test prompts, the Common Sense ...
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Anthropic gives more security teams access to Claude with fewer safety restrictions

Anthropic is expanding its Cyber Verification Program, giving more security professionals access to Claude models with fewer ...
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Zuckerberg's Biohub leads a $1.8 billion push to build AI models that predict cell behavior

Biohub, the research organization backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a $1.8 billion initiative to train AI models that predict cell behavior. Meta, Google DeepMind, ...
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ChatGPT with GPT-6 ditches mostly text output for interactive UI with charts, buttons, and mini apps

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 with "Intelligent UI," a feature that turns answers into interactive interfaces with charts, buttons, and forms. The model can now respond while still thinking, cutting ...