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Two Claudes for One!
Anthropic is dumping one of its more confusing distinctions in its Claude product lineup: the difference between chatting with Claude and asking it to do work.
Trump to Name AI Czar While Rejecting Safety Risks as a Hoax
In his post on Saturday, Trump said he will also create an AI Force modeled after the Space Force, a branch of the US military he created in his first administration, to help tackle issues related to the industry. But it wasn’t immediately clear how that would be structured or what it would do. Somehow I can't see the AI billionaires paying any attention whatsoever to a Trump-appointed AI czar.
Switzerland takes a Swiss Army knife to Microsoft 365
zdnet.comAmazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking labor shares
fortune.comNew Mexico Lawmakers Urge Apple, Google to Publicly Reject Trump’s ‘New America’ Name
washingtonsun.comAnthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
nytimes.comNASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Unveiling Hidden Exoplanets at the Cosmic Edge
windriver.comSynology BeeStation Plus review: An easy-to-use NAS, even if I'm not the target user
A mindlessly simple NAS for people who just want the storage with no frills.
The original, unmodified MicroPro WordStar Professional Release 4 from 1987 running on today's computers.
blog.adafruit.comJudge spares Google’s ad-tech business from a breakup
computerworld.comRetired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer
theregister.comDebian developers rejected an LLM ban and left disclosure voluntary
helpnetsecurity.comNASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing area
theregister.comInsider: Red Hat is capping devs' bot budgets
The R&D department is capping developers' use of tokens: from now on, they'll need to keep it to a maximum of $300 per calendar month, and no more.
There was also a rider, to the effect that sharing token allowances with other developers is prohibited. If somehow you manage not to use your whole budget (what are you, some kind of Luddite?), then no sneakily trying to give it to your more bot-obsessed co-workers.
Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime
Cloud-based AI models operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google suffered a rare and overlapping set of significant service interruptions over a period of hours Thursday morning.