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
DeepMind Chief Demis Hassabis says Google’s still winning AI talent
In an industry where a single breakthrough algorithm or architectural tweak can unlock billions in revenue, individual researchers have attained the kind of leverage and celebrity traditionally reserved for star athletes.
23 Jun 2026
As top talent leaves Google DeepMind, some question if the lab can remain at the forefront of AI development
Welcome to Eye on AI. In today’s issue: Google DeepMind loses top AI talent, raising questions about its status in the AI race
23 Jun 2026
AI Collapses on a Classic Psychology Test. What It Reveals Could Stall Human-Level AI.
"Attention is all you need." This 2017 breakthrough idea transformed AI. The concept of self-attention became the foundation of today’s chatbots. Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT are all large language models (LLMs), AI systems designed to focus on the matter at hand while filtering out distractions. The results have been remarkable. From brainstorming recipes to generating code, apps, websites, and…
23 Jun 2026
Google's Secret Crisis: Why Search Volume Is At An All-Time High But The Company Is Panicking
Caught between ChatGPT’s billion users and a growing anti-AI backlash, Google risks losing ground on both fronts Google has never processed more searches. Sundar Pichai says query volume is at an “all-time high,” according to recent earnings remarks. Yet ChatGPT has reportedly surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, and DuckDuckGo is seeing surging installs for a feature that does the exact…
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.
