Tech CEOs boast and bicker about AI at Davos

There were times at this week’s meeting of the World Economic Forum when Davos seemed transformed into a high-powered tech conference.

Sen. Markey questions OpenAI about ‘deceptive advertising’ in ChatGPT
Sen. Markey questions OpenAI about ‘deceptive advertising’ in ChatGPT

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is pressing OpenAI about its move to bring ads to ChatGPT, and is asking several other companies whether they have similar plans. In letters to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Snap, and xAI, Markey writes that embedding ads into AI chatbots “raises significant concerns for consumer protection, privacy, […]

You can now connect Claude with Apple Health to get insights from your fitness data

Claude AI now connects with Apple Health, letting users talk through their fitness and health data to spot trends, understand metrics, and get plain-language insights instead of raw numbers.
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Anthropic has to keep revising its technical interview test so you can’t cheat on it with Claude

Since 2024, Anthropic’s performance optimization team has given job seekers a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff — but as AI coding tools have gotten better, the test has had to change a lot to stay ahead of AI-assisted cheating.

This plugin uses Wikipedia’s AI-spotting guide to make AI writing sound more human
This plugin uses Wikipedia’s AI-spotting guide to make AI writing sound more human

A new tool aims to help AI chatbots generate more human-sounding text – with the help of Wikipedia’s guide for detecting AI, as reported by Ars Technica. Developer Siqi Chen says he created the tool, called Humanizer, by feeding Anthropic’s Claude the list of tells that Wikipedia’s volunteer editors put together as part of an […]

A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025

From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot happened last year.

Anthropic revises Claude’s ‘Constitution,’ and hints at chatbot consciousness

The newly revised document offers a roadmap for what Anthropic says is a safer and more helpful chatbot experience.

Anthropic’s new Claude ‘constitution’: be helpful and honest, and don’t destroy humanity
Anthropic’s new Claude ‘constitution’: be helpful and honest, and don’t destroy humanity

Anthropic is overhauling Claude’s so-called “soul doc.” The new missive is a 57-page document titled “Claude’s Constitution,” which details “Anthropic’s intentions for the model’s values and behavior,” aimed not at outside readers but the model itself. The document is designed to spell out Claude’s “ethical character” and “core identity,” including how it should balance conflicting […]

Anthropic’s CEO stuns Davos with Nvidia criticism

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei unloaded on both the administration and U.S. chip companies over plans to sell to China. The criticism was particularly notable because one of those chipmakers, Nvidia, is a major partner and investor in Anthropic.