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Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we've seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn't disclosed this data, but a spokesperson did tell TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year.

This week I reported on some rather unusual research that focuses on the brain of L. Stephen Coles. Coles was a gerontologist who died from pancreatic cancer in 2014. He had spent the latter part of his career specializing in human longevity. And before he died, he decided to have his brain preserve

All but two of Musk's 11 xAI co-founders departed before this week.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How a couple of ski bums built the internet’s best weather app The best snow-forecasting app for skiers isn’t a federally-funded service or a big-name brand. It’s

While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.

“Think of this as a human body,” says Javier González. In front of me is essentially a metal box on wheels. Standing at around a meter in height, it reminds me of a stainless-steel counter in a restaurant kitchen. It is covered in flexible plastic tubing—which act as veins and arteries—connecting a

Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.

My last article was about implementing Like-for-Like (L4L) for Stores. After discussing my solution with my peers and clients, I encountered an interesting issue that brought additional requirements to my first solution. This is what I want to discuss here. The post Following Up on Like-for-Like for

Why retrieval that looks excellent on paper can still behave like noise in real RAG and agent workflows The post What the Bits-over-Random Metric Changed in How I Think About RAG and Agents appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Using Codex and MCP to connect Google Drive, GitHub, BigQuery, and analysis in one real workflow The post Beyond Code Generation: AI for the Full Data Science Workflow appeared first on Towards Data Science.

In my latest posts, we’ve talked a lot about prompt caching as well as caching in general, and how it can improve your AI app in terms of cost and latency. However, even for a fully optimized AI app, sometimes the responses are just going to take some time to be generated, and there’s simply […] The

Granola's valuation jumped from $250 million to $1.5 billion with this round, and it has added more support for AI agents after users previously complained.

Investors like Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and Elad Gil can't get enough of AI legal tech startup Harvey.

Reddit will require suspected automated accounts to verify they’re human, as it ramps up efforts to curb bot-driven spam and manipulation.

Google is launching Lyria 3 Pro, an upgraded music model that generates longer, more customizable tracks, as it expands AI music tools across Gemini, enterprise products, and other services.

Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced companion legislation to halt construction on new data centers until Congress passes comprehensive AI regulation.

The first lady sees AI and robotics playing a prominent role in the future of American education.

Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises to shrink AI’s “working memory” by up to 6x, but it’s still just a lab experiment for now.

Anthropic finds AI isn’t replacing jobs yet, but early data shows growing inequality as experienced users gain an edge, raising concerns about future displacement and workforce divides.

Deccan AI concentrates its workforce in India to manage quality in a fast-growing but fragmented AI training market.