Michael Burry says Anthropic’s IPO filing this week has reinforced his concerns that the entire AI ecosystem is at risk of disaster. The investor of “The Big Short” fame wrote in a Substack post on Tuesday that the first in-depth look at Claude’s parent company, ahead of what could be the biggest IPO in history,
Amazon’s latest Echo Show smart display is big, gorgeous, and eye-wateringly expensive. Announced today, the Echo Show 16 costs $499.99 (wall mount included) and is available to preorder now. There’s a Nanomatte display option for $569.99, plus a $100 preorder discount ahead of its release later this year. After spending time with the device at
On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The Verge are growing increasingly tired of the company’s antics. It has been a turbulent few months between OpenAI
Chinese audiences may be happy to let AI generate their microdramas—but a fully AI-generated feature film may be a step too far. China’s first AI-generated feature to release in cinemas, the sci-fi thriller Sanxingdui: Future Past, flopped at the Chinese box office. The movie, produced by Bona Film Group, tells the story of an archaeologist
Within hours of the iPhone Duo launch last Friday, people reported that the inner screen on some brand new foldable phones was already broken. The issue was similar across many photos shared on social media: some kind of issue or crack would appear in the middle of the screen above the hinge, with lines appearing
The first installment of Elon Musk’s AI-generated adaptation of “The Odyssey” has arrived, drawing swift ridicule for the medium Musk claimed would challenge Hollywood and offering an awkward AI-generated entry into the woke wars. Back in July, the world’s richest man promised in an X post that by the end of the year, he would
