In brief Janet Mills must decide whether to sign or veto a first-in-the-nation ban on large AI data centers. The moratorium, passed by Maine lawmakers, would pause new projects for over a year. The decision comes as Mills faces a competitive Senate primary, adding political pressure to the outcome. Maine Governor Janet Mills, who is…
In brief Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, an AI model that enables robots to perform industrial tasks through spatial reasoning and embodied intelligence. The model shows 6% text and 10% video improvement in safety hazard identification compared to Gemini 3.0 Flash. Boston Dynamics integrated the technology into its Orbit AIVI-Learning platform, with the update…
In brief Anthropic added passport and selfie verification for Claude—no other major AI chatbot currently requires the same. The move comes weeks after millions joined Claude specifically over OpenAI’s surveillance deal. Verification data goes to Persona’s servers, not Anthropic’s, and won’t be used to train models. Anthropic quietly published identity verification requirements for Claude this…
In brief “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi,” is a new feature-film starring Casey Affleck, Gal Gadot, and other notable actors, centered on the mystery of the top crypto asset’s creator. The film was produced with heavy involvement from AI tools. It is the latest in a string of films and documentaries that question the identity of the…
CoreWeave, a publicly traded AI cloud infrastructure company, announced on Wednesday a $6 billion deal with quantitative trading firm Jane Street, in which the firm will use CoreWeave’s AI cloud computing infrastructure to power its trading and research operations. Under the agreement, CoreWeave will provide Jane Street with compute from multiple data center facilities, the…
In brief Alibaba shut down the free tier of Qwen Code. Users are directed to check third-party providers like OpenRouter. Recently, Minimax also changed its license from open source to open weights, with conditions for commercial use. Alibaba’s Qwen Code killed its free tier today. The message in the GitHub repo doesn’t mince words: “Qwen…
In brief Frontier AI models blew up betting on real-world football markets. They knew the right strategy—but failed to execute it. A simple 1990s model was able to best most of them. General Reasoning just gave frontier AI its worst report card yet. Eight top models, including Claude, Grok, Gemini, and GPT-5.4, were each given…
In brief Starbucks launched an app within ChatGPT that uses AI to recommend drinks based on user mood descriptions or uploaded photos. Users can describe their feelings or share images to get personalized drink suggestions, but can’t order through the AI chatbot. The integration represents a major consumer brand’s adoption of AI for personalized product…
In brief Anthropic is preparing Claude Opus 4.7 and an AI design tool for websites and presentations Claude Mythos remains Anthropic’s true frontier model, and the company won’t release it publicly. The industry still can’t reliably measure AI improvements, making claims about Opus 4.7’s gains hard to verify. Anthropic is gearing up to release Claude…
In brief BitMine posted a net loss of more than $3.8 billion during the three-month stretch ending in February. The firm attributes most of the losses to the unrealized or paper losses mounting from its Ethereum holdings. Shares of BMNR are up about 1% on Wednesday, but have slid nearly 60% in the last six…