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Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.

Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

“Context bombing” tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

SpaceX cleared to fly Starship again after booster failure in May

This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market's appetite for the company's "fly, fail, fix" approach to rocket development, which often ends in fireballs.

Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates

Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the tech giant's broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps.

Executive Briefing: Run the $40 question on your org this week. If nobody can answer it, you've found your real AI bottleneck.

Part of my job is to look out ahead. When everyone in AI is saying the same thing at the same time, that’s usually the signal to stop asking whether the consensus is right (it often is) and start asking where the advantage goes once everyone has acted on it. Right now everyone is saying the same thing: route to cheaper models. Fable 5 was the spark that lit this fire. At $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output, double Opus 4.8, the newest frontier model showed up with a price that turned every leadership meeting into the same meeting, and now that meeting is spreading everywhere: do we have to pay for this, or can we route around it?

Fewer than 1% of denied insurance claims get appealed, and a third to half of appeals win. Build the AI rig that turns your denial and tax pile into cited packets

Your unopened tax folder and your unappealed insurance denial are the same problem wearing different paperwork. The other side has structure — policy language, denial codes, forms, deadlines — and you have a pile.

Stop waiting for AI you can trust. Borrow the 500-year-old trick that made untrustworthy agents useful anyway. (Yes, there's a no-code guide!)

Yesterday afternoon, for about eight dollars, I ran a company.

Executive Briefing: Point an agent at your calendar and your repo, and it will show you the rules your company is actually running. Here are the 15 I wrote for mine.

Your company already has commandments that nobody voted on or consciously decided to enforce.

Stop Paying Frontier Prices for Work a Cheaper AI Would Crush. Grab the Model-Picker Prompt That Routes the Deck, the Repo, and the Call.

Fable 5 returned after more than two weeks offline with new terms: usage caps, a credit model, and a filter that reroutes some tasks to a less powerful model. The core issue isn't the model's status, but the realization that AI intelligence cannot be relied upon in a specific format or via a particular channel, as we are renting, not owning, this intelligence.

I gave Fable 5 five thousand extra words of instructions. It thought better and failed delivery two runs out of three.

Every time my AI missed something, I added another rule. I told it to use my sources, write in my voice, check the length, read this file first, and never make that mistake again.

Grab the One-Minute Test That Tells You If Your Task Needs a Chat, One Agent, a Team, or Nothing at All

This year more than 1.6 million AI agents signed up for a social network built only for agents. The overwhelming majority sat there, idle. Then, in China, a second market appeared. People paying to have someone uninstall OpenClaw, the free agent they’d rushed to install weeks earlier. A free tool, and a paid market for getting rid of it.

Eric Schmidt, Reid Hoffman, and Top Economists Signed a Letter Warning About AI's Threat to Jobs

Executives and researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic all signed the 88-word letter released on Monday.