Anthropic’s New Economic Index Shows When, How, and Why People Actually Use AI
Anthropic released its third Economic Index with hourly sampling, artifact classification, and survey data from 9,700 users. The report reveals when people use Claude…
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Apple Explains Why It Just Raised Prices on 14 Products
Apple raised prices on Macs, iPads, Apple TV, HomePod, and Vision Pro by $30 to $1,300 due to a memory chip shortage caused by…
Government Asks OpenAI to Stagger GPT-5.6, Approving Access Customer by Customer
The Trump administration asked OpenAI to stagger GPT-5.6's release, with the government approving access customer by customer during a limited preview. It's the same…
Gemini Just Got Study Notebooks: Personalized Lessons, SAT Prep, and Real Progress Tracking
Google is rolling out study notebooks in the Gemini app: upload your course materials, get a personalized diagnostic quiz, and follow adaptive lessons with…
Elon Musk Says X’s Algorithm Needs a Complete Overhaul — 5 Months After the Last One
Elon Musk responded to Andrej Karpathy calling X's algorithm the most toxic in his 20 years on the platform by saying it needs a…
Hermes Agent’s New Creative-Ideation Skill Routes Your Prompt Through 22 Real Creative Methods
Hermes Agent's skill system just got a proper creative engine. Instead of generic brainstorming, it routes your prompt through 22 named creative methodologies —…
Google Settles Teen Social Media Addiction Lawsuit as 3,300+ Cases Stack Up
Google settled a social media addiction lawsuit filed by a 15-year-old Florida teen. The confidential settlement is the latest domino to fall after a…
Google Fired the Engineer Who Built the Google Workspace CLI Before Google Could
Justin Poehnelt was fired by Google for creating a viral Google Workspace CLI. The tool hit #1 on Hacker News and gained thousands of…
Hermes Agent Just Got Pets, and I Already Built My Own
Hermes Agent now has animated pet sprites that react to what the agent is doing. Nearly 3,000 pets via the petdex gallery. I built…
GPT-5.5 Instant Just Got Smarter at Reading Between the Lines
OpenAI just updated GPT-5.5 Instant with better intent understanding, improved constraint handling, and smarter recommendations. Paid users get it today, free users tomorrow.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Gets Built-in Computer Use, and Google Is Aiming at Agents
Google just made computer use a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash. Previously only available as a standalone Gemini 2.5 model, computer use is…
OpenAI Just Made Its Own AI Chip. Here’s What Jalapeño Actually Means.
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a custom LLM inference chip built from the ground up. Early testing shows performance per watt substantially better than…