Shumer compares the current moment to the early days of the pandemic: signals of massive disruption are visible to insiders, yet widely dismissed by the broader population. His central warning is blunt — society is underestimating both the speed and magnitude of the AI transition. As a result, AI anxiety is suddenly a new phenomenon…
OpenClaw, the fast-growing open-source AI agent project created by Peter Steinberger, is enforcing a strict rule in its Discord community that can result in users being removed for mentioning bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. The policy drew attention after a user said they were blocked for referencing Bitcoin block height in a technical benchmarking context. Steinberger…
Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable commercial AI model yet — and spent much of the launch reminding everyone it has a better one locked in the vault. Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, the latest iteration of its flagship commercial AI model, extending its lead over OpenAI and Google in…
Sam Altman is asking the U.S. government to tax, regulate and redistribute the wealth generated by the very technology his company is racing to build — a move without clear precedent in Silicon Valley history. In a 13-page policy paper released Monday titled Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First, OpenAI…