Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”
Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”

Anthropic confirmed on Wednesday that it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, the first time the company has publicly acknowledged the effort. A spokesperson told Business Insider the company would co-design hardware …

A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.
A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.

Sapiom is a San Francisco startup that sits between AI agents and the models they run on. It has raised a $35 million Series A. Dragonfly led the round. It comes 11 months after the company launched, and six months after a $15 million seed led by Accel…

Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers
Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers

Google is laying off around 52 employees in Washington state, according to a WARN notice it filed on Wednesday and first reported by GeekWire. The letter gives no reason for the cuts. It says only that they are permanent, and that they are not the resu…

AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

AI Hacks Are Bad. AI Worms and Viruses Will Be Worse

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day
Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day

Sundar Pichai’s memo on Wednesday thanked Jeff Dean for “an incredible 27-year run” and said he was off to start a company with Sanjay Ghemawat. He posted the same two names on X. Discovery Loop’s website names four. The two Google skipped are Quoc Le,…

A Coffee A Day Keeps The Doctor Away?

Large reviews show that one to three cups of brewed coffee a day are linked with lower risks of liver disease, heart disease, stroke and Type 2 diabetes in most adults.

TikTok’s 30 World Cup Creators Never Filmed A Match. That Was The Point

At the 2026 World Cup, TikTok and FIFA gave 30 creators access to everything but live match play, revealing how sports coverage is moving to the second screen for fans.

GPU prices are approaching 2.5x their launch cost. Asus and Gigabyte just made it official with a second 2026 price hike.
GPU prices are approaching 2.5x their launch cost. Asus and Gigabyte just made it official with a second 2026 price hike.

Asus and Gigabyte have raised prices across their entire Nvidia RTX 50-series and AMD Radeon RX 9000 GPU lineups, the second round of increases this year. The biggest hit lands on the RTX 5090D V2, which received channel price increases of $592 from Gi…

The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.
The US wants Chinese optics out of its AI data centres. Amazon and Microsoft pay first.

China’s two biggest optical module makers took a beating on Wednesday. Zhongji Innolight fell as much as 16%, according to the South China Morning Post. Bloomberg put the intraday drop at 14%. Eoptolink Technology slid with it. The trigger was a Reuter…