Alex McFarland is an AI journalist and writer exploring the latest developments in artificial intelligence. He has collaborated with numerous AI startups and publications worldwide.
OpenAI expanded its Daybreak security program on June 22, 2026, and it’s easy to read the announcement as one more model drop with a security label stuck...
On the day the change was set to go live, Anthropic walked it back. For weeks its billing page had spelled out a hard cutover: starting June...
On June 12, 2026, an export-control directive landed at Anthropic and the most capable model the company has ever shipped went dark. Fable 5 and Mythos...
Claude Fable 5 is out, and the capability story is genuine. Stripe reported using it to run a codebase-wide migration on 50 million lines of code...
Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO on June 1, 2026, submitting a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC. No share count, no price, no public financials...
Boris Cherny built Claude Code, and he hasn’t written a line of code in over six months.That’s not a confession. In a new interview with Casey Newton,...
Anthropic shipped Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026, just over six weeks after Opus 4.7. That’s a fast turnaround, faster than the Sonnet and Haiku lines have...
Spotify just shipped an app whose entire job is to make content for you. It’s called Studio by Spotify Labs, a standalone desktop app with an agent...
At Code with Claude, Anthropic’s developer event in London, an engineer named Jeremy Hadfield asked the room a question: who here has shipped a pull request...
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released a research preview of its first in-house model on May 11, 2026,...
Anthropic on Wednesday signed an agreement with SpaceX to lease the entire compute footprint of the Colossus 1 data center, gaining more than 300 megawatts of...
Stripe on April 29 launched a digital wallet purpose-built for the era of autonomous AI agents, letting consumers grant a software agent permission to shop, book...
Anthropic is fielding preemptive offers to raise roughly $50 billion in fresh capital at a valuation between $850 billion and $900 billion, according to multiple reports...
Anthropic released nine new Claude connectors on April 28, plugging the assistant directly into the software professional creatives already use — Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Ableton...
David Silver’s London-based AI lab Ineffable Intelligence emerged from stealth on April 27 with a $1.1 billion seed round at a $5.1 billion post-money valuation –...
