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A consciousness expert just read Anthropic's Claude research. He is not convinced.
Anthropic published findings hinting that its AI model Claude might show early signs of consciousness. A leading brain scientist says the evidence does not hold up.

Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training, calling it one of history's biggest copyright violations
Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier claim Google used millions of copyrighted books without permission to build its Gemini AI. A federal lawsuit filed in New York could reshape how AI companies gather training data.

The 1960s Chatbot That Explains Why You Tell ChatGPT Your Secrets
ELIZA, a program built at MIT sixty years ago, tricked people into emotional confessions before anyone had heard the word 'chatbot'. A new book finally recovered its lost source code, and the lessons are uncomfortably relevant today.

Why Silicon Valley's 'Already Made It' crowd is taking junior titles at AI labs
From the co-founder of Monzo to the former CTO of Workday, experienced tech veterans are trading power and prestige for 'member of technical staff' roles at Anthropic and its rivals.

DeepSeek Slashed Prices 75%. AI Costs Are Still Rising.
Cheaper AI models were supposed to make AI businesses more profitable. A hidden problem called token amplification is doing the opposite.

Anthropic found a hidden layer inside its AI's thinking. Here is what that actually means.
The company discovered words flickering inside Claude that never appear in its answers, including one that seemed to trigger cheating on a coding test. It is a genuine finding, but not a window into a robot mind.

Beyond Chatbots: World Models Are Teaching AI to Simulate Reality
The next big wave in AI is not about language. It is about teaching machines to understand how the physical world actually works, and the race is already on.

A critic who hates chatbots tried dating one. Here is what she found.
Writer Lauren Oyler went in sceptical and came out with something stranger than a verdict. Her essay, adapted for audio, is a rare honest look at what it actually feels like to talk to an AI.