We must reject any notion of AI consciousness Letter: Artificial intelligence systems won’t become conscious for the same reason they won’t become pregnant, says Dr John Pickering The Guardian - UK · Jul 22
US judge closes the book on first big AI copyright suit, ordering Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion settlement The end of the story or just the start of a fresh chapter? PC Gamer · Jul 22
I test AI coding tools all day — here are 9 hidden Claude Code features you’re probably missing Discover 9 hidden Claude Code features that can save time, automate repetitive tasks, and help you get the most out of Anthropic's powerful command-line AI assistant. Tom’s Guide · Jul 21
US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin granted final approval of the settlement, the largest known settlement of a U.S. copyright case, rejecting arguments that it was too small. The Economic Times · Jul 21
We Gave AI Chatbots 5 Financial Challenges. Here's How They Did We tested AI chatbots on five real-life financial challenges and compared their advice with guidance from human financial planners. Kiplinger · Jul 20
'The bypass is still six lines of JavaScript': Security experts warn that Claude for Chrome browser extension could be hijacked, despite it alerting Anthropic several times that something was wrong Researchers found Claude’s Chrome extension still contains vulnerabilities allowing fake clicks and permission bypasses despite Anthropic releasing multiple updates. TechRadar · Jul 19
Could AI be conscious? Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications The Guardian - UK · Jul 19
Chinese AI model takes US tech industry by surprise with abilities rivaling Claude and ChatGPT Another powerful new artificial intelligence model from China is taking the U.S. tech industry by surprise The Independent UK · Jul 17
Claude can now enter all your passwords for you - if you give it permission 1Password partnership will mean Claude will never see the secrets or load them into its own memory. TechRadar · Jul 17
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzle A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case — not with a radical new theory, but with the help of the generative AI Claude. LiveScience · Jul 16
'Everyone else is selling parts — we’re selling the full end-to-end system': Microsoft is allegedly telling its salespeople to take the fight to OpenAI and Anthropic While OpenAI and Anthropic only sell individual components, Microsoft will look to emphasize its full end-to-end offering. TechRadar · Jul 16
Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex The Guardian - UK · Jul 15
I let Claude read all my newsletters for me — now I wake up to a 2-minute AI briefing Tired of newsletter debt? Learn how to use this simple Claude hack to automatically summarize your inbox into a quick, curated daily briefing. Tom’s Guide · Jul 15
Publishers accuse Google of stealing copyrighted content in new lawsuit Multiple book publishers sued Google on Tuesday for allegedly stealing copyrighted content, using it to train artificial intelligence (AI) models and then generating content that "directly" competes with the original authors' work. Furthermore, they claim the content generated by Gemini directly competes with the authors who wrote the original work. The Economic Times · Jul 15
The Conversation · Jul 13 An AI lab says chatbots have what may be a key feature of consciousness. Are they right? And what now? When you interact with a large language model (LLM) – one of the systems behind chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude – it can feel as though you are in contact with another conscious mind. But are you, really?
TechRadar · Jul 13 Lumo AI review Lumo is Proton's privacy-first AI assistant with zero-access encryption, no data logging, and open-source models at a price below ChatGPT Plus.
Marie Claire · Jul 11 AI Edited My Face Without Asking. At First I Laughed It Off—Then I Started Seeing Myself Differently As Meta's latest AI rollout sparks backlash over who can generate our images, I realised something even more disturbing: AI had already decided what a "better" version of me looked like.
Tom’s Guide · Jul 10 Claude isn't just a chatbot anymore — here are 9 things it can do in 2026 Claude can now build apps, search the web, run deep research, write code from your terminal, and create polished documents. Here are nine features that show how far it's moved beyond a chatbot.
The Guardian - UK · Jul 9 The Hay Wain: Walking Constable’s Landscape review – a masterpiece for the climate crisis age While Britain boils in a heatwave, a new exhibition built around the much-reproduced canvas reminds us of the beauty of the natural world – and what we could lose
Tom’s Guide · Jul 8 From hidden menus to frustrating trade-offs, our complete comparison of major AI chatbot privacy controls shows exactly how ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and others track your chats and what you can do to stop them I compared the privacy settings of ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Meta AI and Grok to see which made it easiest to opt out of AI training.
MarketBeat · Jul 8 Want Anthropic Exposure Before the IPO? These 2 AI Giants Are Already There Anthropic filed confidentially for an IPO after a $965 billion valuation; Amazon and Alphabet hold major private stakes, offering investors indirect exposure ahead of a potential 2026 debut.
International Business Times · Jul 7 Anthropic Says Claude Has An Internal Thinking Space. It's Stopping Short Of Calling It Conscious. Anthropic said it has uncovered a previously unseen part of its Claude model that processes ideas internally without expressing them in its responses.
Tom’s Hardware · Jul 5 Alibaba bans Anthropic's Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered — employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift between the firms widens Alibaba banned Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection code was found, prompting staff to switch to Qoder as its feud with Anthropic deepens.
International Business Times UK · Jul 5 Why the Palace Is Winning the AI Search War Against Prince Harry and Meghan Markle A new AI analysis suggests King Charles and the palace are beating Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in the battle for favourable coverage inside chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT.
Fortune · Jul 5 The CEO using AI to double revenue with 1,000 fewer hires: 'Nobody's going to replace the last mile' "I was having a conversation this weekend with Claude and it was a pretty in-depth conversation," W.J. Werzyn told Fortune. And then it hallucinated.