18 Jun 2026
Anthropic’s Project Fetch shows Claude-assisted team finishing robodog coding in fraction of the time
Anthropic said Claude Opus 4.7 completed several robotics tasks far faster than human teams in a follow up to Project Fetch, an internal experiment using an off the shelf robotic quadruped.
18 Jun 2026
Project Fetch: Phase two
In August 2024, we ran an experiment to see how much Claude could help Anthropic employees—who were not robotics experts—perform sophisticated (and amusing) tasks with an off-the-shelf robotic quadruped (henceforth, a robodog). We called this Project Fetch. We found that access to our state-of-the-art model at the time (Claude Opus 4.1) helped one team substantially outperform the other, who had…
18 Jun 2026
Xbox Adds Dedicated Exclusive Tab To Console Dashboard
The corporate messaging coming out of Team Green has been a chaotic roller coaster lately. After spending the last year shipping major first party titles over to competing platforms, Microsoft has decided to lean hard back into the console wars aesthetic.
18 Jun 2026
Google DeepMind unveils a plan to protect itself from its own rogue AI agents
Google has developed a new plan to police the increasingly capable AI agents it uses within its own AI research organization, and the company is publishing the so-called road map to help other AI labs counter the potential threat of rogue AI agents.
18 Jun 2026
The iShares Semiconductor ETF Is Obliterating the S&P 500 in 2026, but Is It Still a Buy? The Answer Might Surprise You.
The iShares Semiconductor ETF ( SOXX +1.44% ) is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that exclusively invests in American companies that design and manufacture chips and components, but it's particularly focused on those involved in the artificial intelligence (AI) segment of the market. As a result, the fund has large positions in stocks like Micron Technology , Advanced Micro Devices , and Nvidia ,…
18 Jun 2026
Robotics Infrastructure Startup XDOF Emerges from Stealth with $70M in Funding
XDOF has emerged from stealth with $70 million in funding to build infrastructure for robot foundation models, including datasets, robotic systems and software tools designed to support physical AI development.
17 Jun 2026
Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies
Researchers have long warned that AI agents could lower the skill floor for offensive cyber operations, and a recent report by OALABS (Open Analysis) researchers bears that out. After recovering and analyzing over 1,000 agent sessions from a compromised server on which an attacker deployed Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex agents, the researchers discovered how easily the attacker was…
17 Jun 2026
Ceiling Mounted Robot Picks Up Toys and Clothes for You
Nathaniel Nifong’s $1,000 DIY ceiling gripper uses four cables and a Raspberry Pi to autonomously sort laundry and toys for about an hour
16 Jun 2026
Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
Anthropic is having a month. The AI lab finished May by surpassing OpenAI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp just revealed.
