The US Government Tried to Restrict an AI Model. Cybersecurity Veterans Are Pushing Back
A week later, 76 veterans from the cybersecurity industry published an open letter demanding the government reverse the order. The signatories read like a who’s who of internet defensive infrastructure: Alex Stamos, former head of security at…
US Government Lifts Block on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 — What Actually Changed
The block hit on a Tuesday. I was in a Slack room with about two hundred developers when someone’s phone went off, then someone else’s, and then we all just sat there. Nobody said anything for maybe thirty seconds. First it was confusion.…
Listen Labs Raised 69M Making AI Voice Data Collection Actually Ethical
Listen Labs raised 69 million dollars after a viral billboard hiring stunt that got their name in front of every tech journalist in the industry. But behind the stunt was a real company with a real differentiator: they’ve built an approach to AI…
OpenAI Is Quietly Building an Empire at Every Layer of the Stack
Three moves. No press conferences. No grand announcements. And yet, taken together, they paint a picture of a company that is systematically dismantling its own identity as a pure-play AI software company. In the past six months, OpenAI has hired a key…
The Real Reason Wall Street Loves Micron Right Now Has Nothing to Do With Memory
There is a moment in every hype cycle when investors stop asking whether a company is worth its current valuation and start asking whether it is worth the next one. Micron Technology just had that moment. Last week, the Boise, Idaho-based memory chip…
What Anthropic’s Cowork Actually Tells Us About the AI Agent Race
There is a version of this story that is just a product review. Anthropic has released Cowork, a desktop agent that lives inside your files, works on tasks in the background without you having to hover over it, and notifies you when it needs input or…
Goose Is a Free AI Coding Agent — and It’s Worth a Look Before Paying
Goose is free. Claude Code is 200 dollars a month. That comparison is making the rounds in developer communities, and it is not wrong, but the phrase “does the same thing” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Goose is a real coding agent.…
Big Tech Is Quietly Ditching Nvidia — and Building Its Own Future
OpenAI has Jalapeño. Google has TPUs. Amazon has Trainium and Inferentia. Microsoft has Maia. Meta has MTIA. Every major AI company is building its own silicon, and the list has grown long enough that it stopped being a rumor and started being a pattern.…
Claude Opus 4.8: I Spent a Week With It So You Don’t Have To
Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 on May 28. I spent six days running it on a real Rust project. Here's what broke, what didn't, and the Qwen distillation question nobody's answering.
GPT-5.6 Is Here — Same Price as GPT-5.5, Twice the Brain
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is here — same price as GPT-5.5, smarter on coding and biology tasks, with a staged rollout due to cybersecurity concerns.
The U.S. Government Is Now Deciding Who Gets to Use the Most Powerful AI
The U.S. government is now requiring approval before companies can give users access to the most powerful version of ChatGPT. This is a meaningful shift in how the government approaches frontier AI — and it’s worth understanding what’s…
Your AI Coding Assistant Has No Memory. Here’s Why That Matters
TL;DR Every AI coding tool you’ve used has probably felt forgetful. Not because the model is bad, but because context windows and memory are fundamentally different things. A new essay from Sigilix makes this distinction precisely: context carries…