20 minutes ago
Apple Negotiates Pay-Per-Use News Deals to Feed Siri AI, Learning From an Old Mistake
Key Takeaways Apple is proposing pay-per-use compensation rather than the fixed, guaranteed fees typical of AI licensing deals with publishers. The company has discussed a nine-figure budget to fund these payments, according to The Wall Street Journal’s sourcing. Apple has previously negotiated separate deals covering AI training rights and has…
3 hours ago
Claude’s Chrome Side Panel Now Carries Full Cowork Sessions Across Every Device
Key Takeaways Skills and connectors already configured on a Claude account now work automatically inside the Chrome side panel, with no separate setup required. Claude in Chrome can read the current page and act on it, clicking links, filling forms, and navigating between tabs, using a person’s existing logins. Anthropic’s…
5 hours ago
Google Finally Takes On Apple’s AirTag, But Its New Pixel 11 Costs $100 More
Key Takeaways Pixel Tag costs $29, or $99 for a four-pack, and connects to Android’s Find Hub network, letting Pixel Watch or Gemini through Pixel Buds locate it. The base Pixel 11 rises to $899, drops its 128GB storage tier entirely, and now starts at 256GB, double last year’s baseline.…
1 day ago
Nvidia Reveals a Trillion-Parameter Nemotron 4 Model Is Coming, Hours After Shipping a Much Smaller One
Key Takeaways Nemotron 3.5 Lightning uses a mixture-of-experts design with only 3 billion active parameters per token, delivering up to 4x faster token generation than comparably sized open models. Nvidia paired the release with NeMo Switchyard, an open-source routing tool that automatically sends each step of an AI agent’s workflow…
1 day ago
An Unreleased Claude Model Made Real Progress on a 167-Year-Old Math Problem
Key Takeaways The unreleased model raised the known lower bound for zeros satisfying the Riemann hypothesis from 41.6% to 67.2%, building on prior published work by mathematicians Baluyot, Goldston, Suriajaya, and Turnage-Butterbaugh. An Anthropic staff member with no significant math training simply prompted Claude to “take a real stab” at…
