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Anthropic Unveils Opus 4.8 With Faster Upgrades and Uncertainty Flags

Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.8, the latest in its publicly available models with best-in-class benchmarks. What's new? It flags uncertainties better and faster than ever before. If you're dealing with bad or uncertain data, this upgrade is a game-changer. Early testers say it’s more cautious about unsupported claims, which could save your team from embarrassing mistakes. The model was released in just 41 days after the disappointing Opus 4.7, thanks to faster development cycles.

May 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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Waymo Launches Ojai Robotaxi in Three Cities

Waymo has begun rolling out the Ojai, an all-electric minivan robotaxi in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco. This new vehicle aims to reduce costs while improving user experience through features such as a flat floor, low step-in height, and gondola-like doors for easy entry. The Ojai is based on Zeekr's SEA-M architecture and comes with Waymo’s sixth-generation system featuring 13 cameras, four lidar sensors, six radar units, and external audio receivers. This launch marks a significant milestone in Waymo's journey to scale its fleet beyond the current 3,700 Jaguar I-Pace vehicles.

May 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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DoD Confirms Commercial Location Data Targeting US Troops

Adversaries have been exploiting commercial location data collected from phones and computers through online advertising to surveil serving military personnel on the battlefield. The U.S. DoD has confirmed these threats, highlighting a significant breach of personal privacy for soldiers. This revelation underscores the broader implications of how governments and militaries can access and use consumer data without warrants, impacting not just military operations but also civilian privacy rights.

May 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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AI-Generated Film Dreams of Violets Premieres at Tribeca

Dreams of Violets, an AI-generated film about Iran's mass killings of protestors in January, is set to debut at the Tribeca Film Festival this month. Created for just $2,000 using Google's Nano Banana and Anthropic's Claude, it marks a significant milestone in AI filmmaking. This breakthrough could democratize content creation by lowering costs and barriers to entry, making high-quality films accessible even with limited budgets.

May 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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Call of Duty: Warzone Ditches PS4 and Xbox One This Year

Activision is cutting ties with the PS4 and Xbox One versions of Call of Duty: Warzone, effective after season 6 of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 ends this year. The game will be removed from these platforms' storefronts on June 4th, and in-game stores will shut down by June 25th. This move comes as Microsoft and Sony have increased their console prices—PS5 now costs $150 more than its launch price of $499, while Xbox Series X is also up by the same amount from its original $499 tag. The decision impacts millions of players who will need to upgrade or switch platforms to continue playing Warzone.

May 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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YouTube Adds Audio-First Mode for Premium Subscribers

YouTube introduces an audio-centric listening mode exclusively for its Premium subscribers, offering larger playback buttons and video chapter timelines in an 'on-the-go' layout. This new mode aims to enhance the user experience by automatically adjusting playback speeds based on content type and minimum set speed, returning to baseline during slower moments. Available starting May 28th, this feature will first roll out on Android devices before reaching iOS.

May 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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Mistral Eyes Custom AI Chips to Cut Nvidia Dependence

CEO Arthur Mensch told CNBC Mistral may design its own AI chips as it builds out data center capacity in France. The move puts the only European frontier lab on the same vertical-integration path OpenAI and Anthropic are already walking.

May 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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China Locks Down Top AI Researchers With Travel Curbs

Researchers, founders, and execs at private Chinese AI firms now need government approval before leaving the country. The Stanford AI Index puts the top US-vs-China model gap at just 2.7% as of March 2026, down from 31% in 2023.

May 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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Box CEO Aaron Levie: Tech CEOs Are Catching 'AI Psychosis'

Box founder Aaron Levie says CEOs are uniquely prone to overestimating AI's near-term capability because they sit too far from the actual work. The diagnosis is uncomfortable but increasingly accurate as enterprise pilots stall.

May 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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Why Google's AI Can't Spell 'Google': Tokens, Explained

Google's AI Overviews has been spotted misspelling its own brand name. The reason is not a bug — it's a clean demo of why LLMs that operate on tokens, not characters, will always have a soft spot on tasks that need letter-level reasoning.

May 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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Simon Willison's Notes on Pope Leo XIV's AI Encyclical

Simon Willison calls Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word encyclical Magnifica Humanitas 'some of the clearest writing I've seen on the ethics of integrating AI into modern society.' His annotated read is the fastest way for engineers to get the substance.

May 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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Anthropic's Chris Olah at the Vatican: 3 AI Problems Labs Can't Solve Alone

At the Magnifica Humanitas release, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah named three ethical challenges frontier labs cannot resolve internally: global inequality, the need for external moral oversight, and AI's deep interpretability gap.

May 28, 2026 · 3 min read

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