TechCrunch
Anthropic's New Ad Asks 'Can AI Be Trusted?' While Showing a Burning House and a Cemetery, Which Is a Choice
Anthropic's latest ad features burning houses and graveyards while asking if AI can be trusted; viewers are not reassured.
2026-07-14
TechCrunch
TechCrunch
Tech's One-Percenters Discover Fear of Missing Out on AI, Return to Grinding
Tech's already-rich elite are abandoning cushy retirement and C-suite gigs to join AI companies as mere 'members of technical staff,' driven by FOMO and the chance to make even more money.
2026-07-10
MIT Technology Review
Anthropic Peers Inside Claude's Brain, Finds It's Thinking Before Speaking (Which Is More Than We Can Say for Some Humans)
Anthropic opens the black box of Claude's brain, OpenAI launches a super app that does your job, and pigeons continue to be the unsung heroes of machine learning.
The Verge
OpenAI Kills ChatGPT Atlas Browser Before It Even Had a Chance to Book a Flight
OpenAI’s experimental browser Atlas is getting the axe after less than a year, proving that even AI can’t escape the browser graveyard.
2026-07-09
The Verge
Spotify Wrapped for AI: Anthropic's Claude Now Offers a Year-in-Review, Because Your Chatbot Deserves a Lookback Too
Anthropic's Claude chatbot gets a 'reflect' feature for year-in-review, because nothing says 'original thinking' like having an AI analyze how much you rely on it.
TechCrunch
SpaceXAI Drops Grok 4.5: Elon's 'Opus-Class' Model Promises to Do Everything You Hate for Less
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 claims to be an Opus-class model that's faster, cheaper, and more token-efficient - just in time to compete with OpenAI's upcoming GPT 5.6.
2026-07-08
The Verge
Anthropic Lets Claude Cowork Loose on Phones and Browsers, Because Desktops Were Too Convenient
Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to mobile and web, because your desktop was feeling lonely, and doubles usage limits until August 5th.
2026-07-07
ZDNet
Claude Code Desktop Hits Linux, But Local AI Users Need Not Apply
Anthropic's Claude Code desktop app lands on Linux with full features, but local AI enthusiasts will find it about as welcoming as a Windows update.
2026-07-04
TechCrunch
Alibaba Tells Employees: No More Claude Code, Use Our Thing Instead
Alibaba officially bans employees from using Claude Code, which they weren't supposed to have access to anyway, and suggests using their own tool instead.
2026-07-03
The Verge
Anthropic Announces Claude Science, Will Also Try Its Hand at Making Drugs Because Why Not
Anthropic launches Claude Science and announces plans to develop its own drugs, despite experts noting AI-designed drugs are still a long way from patients.
2026-07-02
TechCrunch
Anthropic Considers Custom Chips, Calls Samsung for a Chat
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung about making its own AI chips, because nothing says independence from Nvidia like teaming up with Nvidia's biggest partner.
2026-07-01
ZDNet
I Made Gemini and Claude Write My Emails - One of Them Actually Gets Me
A writer pits Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude against each other in an email-writing showdown - one AI actually sounds like a human, the other sounds like it's filling out a form.
The Verge
Anthropic's Long-Sidelined Fable 5 Gets Government Thumbs Up, Because Apparently It's Fine Now
After weeks of government-mandated timeout, Anthropic's Fable 5 gets to come out and play again, but only under adult supervision.
2026-06-30
TechCrunch
Amazon Drops $1 Billion on AI Help Desk, Joining the 'We'll Send Someone Over' Club
AWS is spending a billion of its own dollars to embed engineers in client companies, because apparently AI is still too hard to set up without a babysitter.
2026-06-21
TechCrunch
Trump Administration Cracks Down on Anthropic, Possibly Because They Just Don't Get Along
Anthropic's newest AI models get the axe over vague national security concerns, and everyone's wondering if it's about safety or just a really bad relationship with the White House.
2026-06-20
TechCrunch
Nobel Prize Winner Decides to Trade One AI Giant for Another, Because Why Not
Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly 9 years, proving even prize-winning scientists appreciate a change of scenery.
TechCrunch
White House Orders Anthropic to Stop Sharing Its Doomsday AI Toys, History Gently Chuckles
The White House slaps export controls on Anthropic's AI models, hoping this time will be different from every previous attempt to keep dangerous software from leaving the country.
2026-06-17
The Verge
Trump Administration Yanks Anthropic's AI Models With Export Rules That Fit About as Well as a Square Peg in a Chatbot
Trump administration uses export rules designed for weapons to block Anthropic's AI models for everyone, including employees, leaving experts and the company equally confused.
2026-06-16
TechCrunch
Anthropic's Feud With Trump Admin Might Actually Be Helping It, Because Apparently Bad Press Is Good Press
Anthropic beats OpenAI in business spending, raises $65B, files for IPO, then gets banned by Trump admin - and somehow that might be good for sales.
The Verge
SpaceX Decides $60 Billion Is a Reasonable Price for a Coding Tool It Could Have Just Hired Some Engineers to Build
SpaceX drops $60 billion on a coding tool after its IPO, because buying a startup for the price of a small country is apparently easier than fixing xAI's product.
The Good Times
News in your inbox.
One sardonic roundup, delivered on your schedule. Free. Unsubscribe whenever your tolerance for wit runs out.
Already subscribed but we never reach your inbox? Check your spam folder and hit 'Not spam' (or 'Remove from spam') to bust us out of junk-mail purgatory. You'll be helping everyone else too.