Articles
Every article on the blog, from newest to oldest.
· 6 min read
Fable 5 Is Back, the Government in the Loop
Anthropic switches Fable 5 back on worldwide after export controls lift, but the accuser turns out to be Amazon and the government is now in the loop.
· 3 min read
The Biter Bit, Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Copying Claude
Anthropic says Alibaba siphoned Claude's capabilities through fake accounts to train Qwen, but the company crying theft has done plenty of taking itself.
· 4 min read
Midjourney Dreams of an MRI at Spa Speed
Known for synthetic images, Midjourney now promises to scan your whole body in sixty seconds, somewhere between the radiology lab and the spa.
· 14 min read
Keeping a cool head when France melts
From a well-placed fan to chalk wash on the windows, how I keep a home livable through a French heat wave without wrecking my health.
· 5 min read
Soundcore Sleep, and finally sound asleep
A non-sponsored field report on soundcore Sleep earbuds, which finally cured my trouble falling asleep after fifteen years of wax and foam earplugs.
· 4 min read
MapTap, guessing the world one tap at a time
MapTap is a daily geography game where you tap five places on a globe, and every answer comes with a short history lesson that actually sticks.
· 5 min read
On the web, humans are already outnumbered
For the first time, Cloudflare has measured more web requests coming from bots than from humans, a tipping point that arrived far sooner than anyone expected.
· 5 min read
Le Chaton Fat, the model too fat to be true
For one weekend, Reddit and X crowned Le Chaton Fat, a world-beating Mistral AI model with absurd benchmark scores, before remembering it had never existed.
· 4 min read
Guild Wars 3, the MMORPG I won't have time to love
ArenaNet announced Guild Wars 3 at Summer Game Fest, and the MMORPG veteran dozing inside me snapped awake, dragging twenty-five years of memories with him.
· 6 min read
Fable and Mythos, the day AI got classified
Three days after launch, Anthropic had to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on Washington's orders, and export controls now reach artificial intelligence.