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For several years past, I have set forth diverse iterations of the "Hottest Tech Trends of 1776." In this present annum, I have revis'd the enumeration with the sage advisement of many amongst you, and with a modicum of assistance from the artificer Claude, Anthropic's engine of reason. Thus, for your reading pleasure in honor of our Day of Independence, I present to thee 27 most esteemed technological marvels circa 1776. Continue Reading →

Anthropic has released Claude Science, a research workbench that pulls the tools a scientist juggles all day (PubMed, Jupyter, R, cluster terminals, dozens of genomics and proteomics databases) into one place where an agent runs the analysis and a second agent checks its citations and math. It is in beta for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users, and is pre-loaded with more than 60 curated skills and wired into NVIDIA's BioNeMo models. Continue Reading →

On June 30, the Commerce Department lifted the export controls that had forced Anthropic to switch off Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Today, Fable 5 returns. The models went dark for eighteen days, and the reason they went dark deserves your attention. Continue Reading →

TIDAL announced yesterday that starting on July 15, fully AI-generated music on the platform will no longer earn royalties. The company will tag those tracks with an "AI" badge, remove anything that impersonates an artist, and block 100% AI material from direct-to-fan sales. Continue Reading →

Prompting asks the model for an answer. Loop engineering designs the conditions under which the system can keep working until the answer is good enough to use. Continue Reading →

OpenAI will release GPT-5.6 as a limited preview to a small group of enterprise customers at the request of the Trump administration, with the federal government approving access on a customer-by-customer basis during the preview window. A broader release is expected "a couple of weeks" later, contingent on the government-managed approval process. Continue Reading →

The Associated Press reports that Anthropic's Mythos model, running red-team exercises with U.S. intelligence agencies under an Anthropic initiative called Project Glasswing, identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive classified U.S. government computer systems. Continue Reading →

Anthropic has released Claude Tag in beta. Tag @Claude inside a Slack channel and Claude can join the workstream, follow the thread, take assignments, remember relevant channel context, and (with admin-granted access) pull from connected tools, data sources, codebases, and other approved channels. It is available now to Claude Enterprise and Team customers. Continue Reading →

OpenAI signed a multi-year deal with Getty Images, putting Getty's licensed content libraries into ChatGPT and OpenAI search results. Getty Images stock roughly tripled on the news. Continue Reading →

Electricity did not fail. Factories failed to reorganize around it. The same pattern is repeating with AI. Continue Reading →