California has signed a first-of-its-kind settlement with Anthropic that offers state companies, cities, and counties entry to its Claude assistant at a 50% low cost. Governor Gavin Newsom introduced the deal on June 29. It pairs the discounted entry with free workforce coaching, technical help, and workflow assist from Anthropic builders. Follow us on X…
WhatsApp started rolling out username reservations on June 30, letting its three billion customers declare handles earlier than the complete characteristic launches later in 2026. The change lets folks join with out sharing a private telephone quantity, addressing demand for a pseudonymous identification in messaging apps. The rollout comes as father or mother firm Meta…
Filmmakers are already utilizing synthetic intelligence (AI) to chop animation manufacturing prices by as much as 90%. New labor knowledge from California confirms the business just isn’t ready for the know-how to mature. Los Angeles County’s movement image and sound recording sector shed 6,700 jobs year-over-year by way of May 2026. In whole, these losses…
Austria has requested the EU to discover internet hosting Anthropic inside Europe, weeks after Washington restricted overseas entry to the corporate’s most superior synthetic intelligence fashions. State Secretary for Digitalization Alexander Pröll made the proposal in a letter to the European Commission. He admitted he couldn’t say how the plan would work in apply. Europe’s…
Chinese AI fashions are gaining floor on Anthropic and OpenAI after Z.ai launched GLM-5.2, an open-source system operating at roughly one-sixth the price of US frontier labs. The launch arrived as Washington tightened entry to American fashions. The timing reshaped all the aggressive image throughout the worldwide AI business in only one week. How GLM-5.2…
Ondo Finance, Virtuals Protocol, and Treasures opened greater than 430 tokenized shares to over 40,000 autonomous synthetic intelligence (AI) brokers on Friday, letting the bots commerce onchain equities. Treasures handles the execution, whereas Ondo powers the tokenized equities. At launch, the service covers US shares on Ethereum and Solana, topic to sure jurisdiction restrictions. AI…
Cash will not be going away anytime quickly, however it’s shedding its relevance every day. Consumers worldwide at the moment are paying utilizing cellular wallets, contactless, on the spot fee networks, and digital banking apps. Real-time fee mechanisms are gaining traction with the federal government, central banks are exploring digital currencies, and companies are integrating…
A brand new report from BlackRock’s digital belongings analysis staff examines the rising intersection between quantum computing improvement and blockchain safety, arguing that the business ought to start getting ready for potential cryptographic dangers earlier than they turn out to be a right away menace. The report, authored by Head of Digital Assets Research Will…
Ownership is without doubt one of the biggest guarantees of Web3. You are the proprietor of your property. You personal your information. Your on-line status is yours to manage. But for years, there was an odd lack of cohesion in identification. A person may need a pockets for DeFi, a pockets for NFTs, a social…
Anthropic’s Mythos synthetic intelligence (AI) mannequin reportedly wanted solely hours to search out sure safety vulnerabilities in extremely delicate US authorities pc programs throughout an intelligence take a look at, a US official informed the Associated Press. Still, that velocity doesn’t imply it may exploit them in the similar window, the official stated, talking anonymously…