Claude, your friendly neighborhood chatbot, just got a little more human, for better or worse. The company announced that Claude can now remember details from past conversations without being reminded, a feature rolling out to Team and Enterprise users first. Until…
OpenAI aims to become a public benefit corp with Microsoft’s backing
OpenAI and Microsoft just soft-launched the next chapter in their complicated relationship, announcing that they’ve reached a “nonbinding agreement” on how to keep working together. Translation: they’re basically engaged but still figuring out the prenup. The headline change? OpenAI wants to…
OpenAI and Oracle sign historic cloud computing deal
Oracle just pulled off the tech equivalent of a mic drop. After markets closed yesterday, its stock shot up thanks to whispers of some expensive contracts, and now we know at least one of the names behind the curtain: OpenAI. According…
OpenAI wants chatbots to guess less, admit more
OpenAI has a confession to make: even the smartest chatbots are still making stuff up. In a new research paper, the company asks the question many of us have screamed at our screens: why do large language models like GPT-5 still…
Mozilla solves the problem nobody asked for with shake to summarize
Mozilla just dropped one of the most unhinged feature updates of 2025: Shake your iPhone to get AI summaries of whatever webpage you’re reading. The company launched “Shake to Summarize on iOS to give you a clear summary with one move,”…
Judge rejects $1.5 billion Anthropic author payout deal
Anthropic thought it had bought itself some peace with writers, $1.5 billion worth, to be exact. But Judge William Alsup isn’t ready to hand out the “case closed” stamp just yet. In fact, he rejected the record-breaking settlement this week, saying…
AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton gets dumped via ChatGPT essay
Geoffrey Hinton, the man affectionately nicknamed the “godfather of AI,” has spent years warning the world that AI could one day spell humanity’s doom. But in a twist even he probably didn’t see coming, AI recently came for his love life…
Q&A: Tal Melenboim on AI’s missing piece: clean, licensed data
When most of the AI world obsesses over bigger models and wilder benchmarks, Tal Melenboim zeroes in on the real engine: data. As the founder of VFR.ai and chairman of StyleTech.ai, he’s spent years building the bones of AI—systems that last,…
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion in landmark AI-books settlement
Anthropic just agreed to fork over at least $1.5 billion to authors whose books were allegedly used to train its AI systems. That breaks down to about $3,000 per book, making this possibly the first time in history that pirated PDFs…