Tech

The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home

People in Nigeria and India are strapping iPhones onto their heads and recording themselves doing chores.

Australian Government and Anthropic Sign MOU for AI Safety and Research

Today, Anthropic signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Australian government to cooperate on AI safety research and support the goals of Australia’s National AI Plan. Our CEO, Dario Amodei, met with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to formalize the agreement during a visit to Canberra, Australia. We also announced AUD$3 million in partnerships with leading Australian research institutions to use Claude to improve disease diagnosis and treatment and support computer science education and research.

Computer in Slack: From Shared Context to Finished Work

Like many breakthrough technologies, Perplexity Computer began as an internal tool at Perplexity. Computer was born in the place where we do most of our work: Slack.

Starlink satellite breaks apart into 'tens of objects'; SpaceX confirms 'anomaly'

Satellite failure cause is unexplained after second 'fragment creation event.'

Running local models on Macs gets faster with Ollama's MLX support

Apple Silicon Macs get a performance boost thanks to better unified memory usage.

Cognichip wants AI to design the chips that power AI, and just raised $60M to try

The firm says it can can reduce the cost of chip development by more than 75% and cut the timeline by more than half.