12 Jun 2026
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is the smartest AI model, but why that's not the same as being the best one
Claude Fable 5 is, by most reasonable measures, the most capable AI model anyone can buy right now. It is the public-facing version of Claude Mythos 5, an even more powerful model that Anthropic refuses to release. The naming is deliberate—both words mean a story, but a fable is the safer, tamer version of the kind of tale a myth carries. Mythos sits behind closed doors, available to a handful of…
12 Jun 2026
Dream factory: how Nvidia’s South Korean AI deals stack up
A spate of agreements Nvidia has reached with South Korean companies presents a long-term road map for the country to expand its role in the semiconductor and physical AI industries, observers say.
11 Jun 2026
Friday essay: despite the AI hype, some experts warn of a bubble – what happens if it pops?
In the last few years, the hype around artificial intelligence has become stratospheric. Riding a wave of venture capital, tech leaders promised us AI would revolutionise work , boost productivity and lead to incredible new breakthroughs. OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, set a new record when it attained US$110 billion in investments several months ago – and its CEO, Sam Altman, recently claimed…
11 Jun 2026
Why Do Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Someone Named ‘Elias Thorne’?
Who in the world is Elias Thorne? He’s a regular fixture in stories told by chatbots, as first spotted by software engineer Daniel May, but no one knows why... until now.
11 Jun 2026
THEKER raises $85M in Europe’s largest ever robotics Series A, led by CRV with backing from Samsung and LVMH
THEKER, the Barcelona-based AI robotics company building AI-native generalist robots for industrial production environments, today announced a $85 million round, making it the largest robotics Series A round ever raised in Europe.
11 Jun 2026
Bosch Accelerates Automation and Robotics Drive
Advance robotics and the dynamic growth of humanoid systems are heralding the next stage of automation. Bosch is actively pushing ahead with key technologies for automation and robotics.
11 Jun 2026
Siri AI is powered by Gemini models, but is not Gemini – what does that mean?
We know that Siri AI and other Apple Intelligence features are powered by Google’s Gemini models, but Apple has been at pains to point out that this is not the same as running Gemini on iPhone. While there are still some unknowns, a far clearer picture is emerging about exactly what all of this means ...
11 Jun 2026
OpenAI Could Soon Drop Prices To Compete With Anthropic, Report Says
OpenAI is considering major price cuts for its AI tools in a bid to compete with rival Anthropic, according to a Wall Street Journal report, as both companies prepare to go public later this year and the steep usage cost prompts some companies to scale back or limit usage.
11 Jun 2026
How much Gemini is really inside Siri AI?
Macworld’s analysis reveals that Apple’s Siri AI uses Google Gemini’s foundation models as a base but retrains them with proprietary Apple data and optimizes for Apple Silicon. Apple deploys five third-generation AI models: two on-device models for simple tasks and three cloud-based models for complex processing, all secured through Private Cloud Compute. Despite using Gemini foundations, Siri AI…
