24 Jun 2026
Exclusive: Taktile raises $110 million from Goldman Sachs, Tiger Global to automate high-stakes financial decisions
Banks and insurance companies spend billions of dollars to employ staff to screen risky transactions, process claims, and onboard new customers. If these decisions go awry, there can be serious consequences. The AI startup Taktile aims to automate even these risky calls, and one of the largest financial institutions has decided to back the company. Cofounded by machine-learning engineers Maik…
24 Jun 2026
Anthropic's best model ever was pulled from the internet — here's what actually happened
On June 9, 2026, Anthropic released Fable 5 to much fanfare. It was the first publicly available version of its Mythos-class model, the most capable AI model the company had ever shipped to the general public, and within hours, it was sitting at the top of just about every major benchmark. It beat both ChatGPT and Gemini, was labeled state of the art, and before developers could even finish…
24 Jun 2026
Is your job 'AI-resilient'? Find your risk score with our career calculator
(Image credit: Future) The headline-grabbing news that Anthropic is launching a $150 million “Claude Corps” fellowship to pay early-career workers $85,000 to learn AI highlights a massive shift in the labor market. It proves that the biggest hurdle facing tech giants right now is getting real-world organizations to understand how to actually use AI. But beneath the surface of this massive hiring…
23 Jun 2026
Meet Qwable: The Free Local Model That Thinks Like Claude Fable
Qwable 27B is a full fine-tune of Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B, trained on a Fable 5-style reasoning dataset, designed to replicate the structured, deliberate thinking style of Anthropic's newest flagship model.
23 Jun 2026
Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era
Sometimes it takes a while to detect a vuln. A 29-year-old, Heartbleed-style vulnerability in Squid, a popular open-source caching proxy server, silently leaked users' plaintext HTTP requests and potentially revealed sensitive data, including credentials and session tokens, for decades - until AI (and a few humans) saved the day.
23 Jun 2026
Anthropic launches Claude Tag, a tool that works like a virtual employee within Slack
Anthropic has released a version of its popular chatbot Claude that operates like a virtual employee. Claude Tag, the new product, works across organizations within Slack to complete various tasks for teams.
23 Jun 2026
Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time
Anthropic is introducing Claude Tag in research preview, an “always-on Claude” that lives in Slack and acts as an AI teammate. The new feature — which allows users to tag @Claude to provide insights in chats and assign tasks — will begin in research preview, available through Slack for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers.
23 Jun 2026
Mamdani, AI industry flex political power in New York and what else to watch in Tuesday's primaries
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two opposing factions in the artificial intelligence industry square off in a Democratic primary for a U.S. House seat. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tests his political clout by backing fellow democratic socialists. And President Donald Trump, after two of his chosen candidates for governor lost Republican primaries this month, ensured it won't happen again — by endorsing…
23 Jun 2026
Advanced AI models suffer a near-total collapse on classic psychology test as cognitive demands increase
New research provides evidence that while advanced artificial intelligence models process language with remarkable skill, they struggle significantly with tasks requiring the kind of sustained focus and conflict resolution seen in human attention. The study, published in PNAS Nexus, indicates that as cognitive demands increase, these programs experience a complete collapse in their ability to…
