18 Jun 2026
Anthropic Makes 'Fetch' Happen As New Claude Models Beat Human Teams on Robotics Planning Tasks
Anthropic reran its "Project Fetch" robotics test and found its newer Claude models could outperform the previous generation. In its latest write-up, Anthropic detailed three trials using Claude Opus 4.7 inside Claude Code, with a researcher mainly connecting a laptop to the robot, entering the initial prompt, and approving commands and task transitions.
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
ThreatsDay Bulletin: Claude Chat Abuse, NastyC2 npm Packages, Device-Code Phishing + 25 More Stories
The internet did not break this week. It got used exactly as designed, which is worse. Searches were siphoned through shady browser add-ons. AI chat links turned into malware delivery paths. macOS attacks ran in memory and left almost nothing behind. Cloud agents looked like helpers until attackers treated them like open shells. Add exposed edge gear, poisoned packages, cash courier scams,…
18 Jun 2026
Who decides when AI is too dangerous?
On today’s episode of Decoder, my guest is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter for The Verge. Often when Hayden comes on the show, it’s because something has gone wrong in the world of AI. Last weekend, that something was a pretty intense mix of Anthropic, the Trump administration, and Anthropic’s new AI model, Fable 5.
18 Jun 2026
Blaming China for Datacenter NIMBYism Is Cope
Last week, congressmembers amplified a claim that Chinese propaganda is driving anti-datacenter sentiment in the United States. And recently OpenAI exposed a Chinese influence operation that used ChatGPT to make anti-datacenter AI slop. Someone in China’s deep state clearly thought it was a good idea to push narratives that throw sand in the gears of America’s domestic AI buildout. But blaming…
17 Jun 2026
The Korean Telecom Giant at the Center of Anthropic’s Mythos Controversy
The Trump administration’s move to impose export controls on Anthropic’s most powerful AI technology followed a spat over the company granting South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom access to its Claude Mythos model, according to people familiar with the matter.
17 Jun 2026
Welcome to June 17, 2026
The Singularity has gone open source, and it speaks Mandarin. Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 packs 744 billion parameters (40B active) into MIT-licensed, 1M-context weights built for agentic coding, and Artificial Analysis crowned it the leading open model at 51, past MiniMax-M3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro at 44.
17 Jun 2026
CoreWeave Jumped Again. Is the AI Cloud Stock Still Worth Buying After Its Wild Ride?
CoreWeave ( CRWV 1.70% ) has rarely traded quietly since its 2025 market debut, and the past week was no exception. Shares jumped about 10% on June 16 to around $117. As of this writing, that still leaves the artificial intelligence (AI) cloud provider about 37% below the high near $187 it set last June, though well above its 52-week low near $64. And the latest pop may owe as much to index…
