Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return

Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It’s investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return.

Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome in seven new countries

Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam.

Make Your Own Graphic Novels With NotebookLM

AI tools combine NotebookLM and image generation to create accessible, educational, engaging graphic novels easily.

Make Your Own Graphic Novels With NotebookLM

AI tools combine NotebookLM and image generation to create accessible, educational, engaging graphic novels easily.

Stanford HAI Study Notes Great Divergence In AI Opinions

Public fears AI job loss, while experts and top firms see gains and narrowing competition.

Stanford HAI Study Notes Great Divergence In AI Opinions

Public fears AI job loss, while experts and top firms see gains and narrowing competition.

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want

One of the most mortifying things about knowing a lot of techies is listening to them tell me excitedly about some very important discovery that they believe they have made. Recently, I ran into an acquaintance of mine, who began talking my ear off about an amazing discovery he’d made with LLMs. Knowledge, it turns […]

It’s not just one thing — it’s another thing

This sentence construction (“It’s not just this — it’s that”) has become so common in AI-generated writing that it’s no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic — it’s almost a guarantee.

How Peculiar Humans Beat Fast Machines

Stanford 2026 flags AI’s real value as knowledge creation. In an infinite idea space, speed is a local advantage. Priors and perspective win.

Fortnite developers can make AI characters now — just don’t try to date them
Fortnite developers can make AI characters now — just don’t try to date them

Following last year’s AI-powered Darth Vader in Fortnite that swore in a re-creation of James Earl Jones’ voice, Epic Games is now letting Fortnite creators experiment with a new “conversations” tool to create AI-powered characters that players can talk and interact with. “Instead of authoring dialogue trees for characters in your islands, conversations transforms an […]