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Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched issued a progress report on Tuesday, after TSMC successfully manufactured its chip earlier this year. The startup says it has already booked $1 billion in contract orders for its product: full systems powered by those chips. Etched is currently in the process of testing that first product with customers. It calls these systems “frontier inference clusters,” bundles that include the chips along with custom-designed racks and software, all built to help frontier models run inference faster, more cheaply, and with better power efficiency than rivals, Etched claims. (Inference is what happens after a user submits…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a Trump administration overhaul to a public service forgiveness program for student loans, ruling in favor of advocates who said the program risked becoming a tool for political retribution.U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Massachusetts vacated the U.S. Education Department’s changes, saying they overstepped the agency’s power and threatened to violate First Amendment protections for free speech. His ruling came a day before the new rules were set to take effect.The ruling came in response to a pair of lawsuits filed by more than 20 states along with a coalition…
As shipping agentic capabilities becomes table stakes among foundation model companies, Anthropic is releasing Claude Sonnet 5, a more powerful and agentic version of the lab’s midsize model. “It can make plans, use tools like browsers and terminals, and run autonomously at a level that, just a few months ago, required larger and more expensive models,” Anthropic said in a blog post. That framing mirrors what OpenAI and Google have said about their own recent releases. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol was launched in preview last week, and it is also the firm’s most agentic model yet, allowing users to split work…
A new startup wants to bring AI to the software you use the most: your smartphone’s keyboard. On Tuesday, Singapore-based Acti (short for “action”) launched an agentic keyboard for iOS and Android, one that doesn’t just suggest your next word but can also take actions on your behalf, bringing AI tools directly into the apps you already use, including email, messaging, social media, and more. According to Young Wang, Acti founder and CEO, this solves a problem familiar to anyone juggling multiple apps; users have to constantly switch between different apps just to get an AI’s help. Image Credits:Acti “Today’s…
Anthropic introduced Claude Science on Tuesday, an AI workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, sparing them the hassle of bouncing between databases, pipelines, and tools. To be clear, Anthropic says Claude Science is “not a new AI model and not a more capable model for biology. It runs the same Claude models already available to everyone today (including Claude Opus 4.8), with no special access and no gating.” The workbench builds on Anthropic’s October 2025 launch of Claude for Life Sciences, which essentially augmented the Claude chatbot by making it better at life sciences tasks. Claude…
Business leaders don’t often look to government for best practices in scaling AI. But that’s exactly what’s happening in Amarillo, Texas, where an AI-powered digital assistant has become the world’s first public-facing municipal AI digital human — making Amarillo a global leader in highly personalized customer service, delivered responsively in real time.Emma, the city’s AI digital assistant and the digital front door to city services, has been answering around 5,000 questions a month, allowing the city to save $1.8 million earmarked for call-center expansion. In other words, the project combined the two AI milestones enterprise leaders crave most: scale and…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t buy the fear about AI job displacement.”I think that people assume that that’s inevitability,” Zuckerberg said during a recent live interview for Complex’s “Idea Generation.” “I don’t actually think it is.”Zuckerberg said the job situation will improve if companies focused more on “personal super intelligence” versus on “automating all knowledge work,” a not so subtle plug for Meta’s AI vision and a veiled dig at some of the leading AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI. The Meta CEO said a future where “a few companies” focus on automating knowledge work would be “not great.””If you…
Over the past 42 years, Ancestry has collected more than 71 billion birth certificates, marriage licenses, and other family records from 88 countries to build 148 million family trees.For most of the genealogy company’s history, collecting, labeling, and organizing that data was a painstakingly slow process. Ancestry’s employees and third-party vendors would spend months manually inputting data and transcribing international family records. International expansion began in 2001 when the company launched a website in the UK, but adding additional markets came at a high cost, said Sriram Thiagarajan, Ancestry’s chief technology officer since November 2020.”The cost for the time taken…
X is making it easier for AI assistants like Claude, Cursor, Grok Build, and other MCP-compatible apps to connect directly to the platform through a new hosted MCP server. On Monday, the Elon Musk-owned social network unveiled a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI tools communicate with the X API using a user’s own account permissions. MCP, for context, is an open standard that defines a common way for AI models to connect to external tools and services. Previously, if developers wanted an AI assistant like Claude or Cursor to access X, they would have to build…
Video and podcast recording tool maker Riverside is giving its users a new way to reach their audiences: newsletters. Riverside isn’t aiming to directly take on established newsletter platforms like Mailchimp, Substack, Beehiiv, or Ghost, however. Instead, recognizing that its userbase already generates a lot of content, the company is giving the users of its recording tools an AI tool to turn their existing videos and podcasts into newsletters, and send them directly from within its app. Users can also create and send newsletters from scratch without using the AI conversion feature. “Substack and Beehiiv start you at a blank…