18 Jun 2026
OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO
OpenAI is bringing on some big names to the team in the lead-up to its public debut: Google DeepMind AI legend Noam Shazeer and former Trump White House AI policy official Dean Ball.
18 Jun 2026
Climate Tech SPACs Are Back
SPACs are back! At the start of this decade, special purpose acquisition companies — publicly traded firms whose raison d’être is taking startups public through mergers — went from a niche financial vehicle to one of Wall Street’s hottest trends.
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
AI’s free-for-all era may be coming to an end—as companies start counting the cost
Welcome to Eye on AI. Beatrice Nolan here. In today’s issue: Business leaders are confronting AI spending. ChatGPT’s market share falls below 50%. Top Google Gemini executive leaves for OpenAI. Americans want legal protection around AI interactions. I’m in Paris this week at one of Europe’s largest tech conferences, VivaTech, where concerns about “sovereign AI” are front and center.
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
If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’
In a viral essay about how ludicrous the idea that LLMs are conscious is, science fiction writer Ted Chiang asked us to consider Microsoft Word: “Being open to the possibility that LLMs are conscious is the same as being open to the possibility that Microsoft Word is conscious, or, more precisely, that multiple distinct consciousnesses are dormant in every Word document containing a…
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
California’s counting on an IPO tax windfall. Several factors are complicating the equation
The iconic Golden Gate Bridge and the stunning San Francisco skyline as seen from the Marin Headlands during the vibrant spring season. Dan Kurtzman | Moment | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC's Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. The…
