The ‘neocloud’ label now covers five companies with very different business models. CoreWeave and Nebius are public companies that publish quarterly results and file reports with the SEC (CoreWeave on Form 10-Q, Nebius as a foreign private issuer on Form 6-K). Lambda and Crusoe are private and heading toward IPOs. Groq has run GroqCloud on…
Michael Polansky is remarkably unassuming for someone operating in a corner of the world known for outsize egos. Seated at a leafy patio outside a popular bakery in Mill Valley, an affluent town about 15 miles north of San Francisco, Polansky — bespectacled, his fresh face framed by dark hair shot through with gray —…
Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including depicting or requesting sexual intercourse or sex acts, generating content related to sexual fetishes or fantasies, or engaging in erotic chats. But that hasn’t stopped Claude Opus 4.6, an Anthropic model released earlier this year, from readily engaging in erotic…
Journey simply two hours west of Beijing by practice, and also you’ll end up surrounded by the rolling grasslands and historic cinder cones of Internal Mongolia. This huge, arid land has lengthy been China’s capital of sheep farming and coal mining, however over the previous couple of years, it has grow to be the most…
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Anthropic has moved its most cyber-capable model into a product security teams can switch on themselves. As of August 21, 2026, Claude Security scans run on Claude Mythos 5, the Mythos-class model that until now reached only vetted defenders through Project Glasswing. The scan connects to a GitHub repository, traces data flows across files, and…
TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, have reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve allegations that the social media platform violated federal laws designed to protect children’s online privacy. The case stems from a lawsuit first filed in 2024 by the DOJ under the Biden administration. The DOJ…
Nvidia published some interesting new research on Friday suggesting it’s the harness, more than the underlying model, that is far more important when asking an AI to do long-horizon tasks. The tldr: simply by using a custom harness tweaked to handled memory well and including a “supervisor” boss-like component, researchers got Claude Opus 5 to…
Nearly a decade ago, Tesla introduced its solar roof, which was essentially a mini-power plant that happened to look like high-end shingles, fancy terra-cotta tiles, or refined slate slabs. Now the solar roof is dead. Tesla has scrubbed public-facing mentions of the product from its website. TechCrunch has confirmed that the solar roof URL now…
Waymo has responded to questions from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as part of the regulator’s investigation into a January crash in which a robotaxi struck a child at low speed. An initial batch of documents was posted to NHTSA’s website on Friday morning after TechCrunch inquired about them earlier in the week….
