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Saving America’s Story

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Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70%

The open-source tool pxpipe converts long text prompts for Claude Code into compact PNGs, exploiting the fact that Anthropic charges for images by pixel size, n…

Anthropic developer shares prompting tips for Fable 5 that focus on finding your own blind spots first

Anthropic developer Thariq Shihipar argues that with Claude's new model, Fable 5, the bottleneck is no longer the model itself but the user's blind spots. He de…

Anthropic launches its own drug discovery programs to tackle diseases Big Pharma considers unprofitable

Anthropic is launching its own drug development program for neglected diseases that the pharmaceutical industry considers unprofitable. Novartis CEO Vas Narasim…

A 26,000-student study shows AI's hidden learning cost takes two full years to surface

A study of more than 26,000 Chinese students found that AI users finished homework faster and scored higher but performed up to 24 percent worse on exams. The f…

OpenAI cofounder envisions "almost no interface" future where nobody learns software anymore

Greg Brockman admits ChatGPT's plugins, heavily marketed in 2023, failed "because the models weren't ready." Instead of app extensions, he sees the future in an…

Mistral's open-source Leanstral 1.5 aces formal math benchmarks and catches real bugs in code

Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5, an open-source model for formal verification in Lean 4. Beyond math, the model found five previously unknown bugs while scann…

Claude Code v2.1.201

Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents

Microsoft reportedly plans to merge its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single app in August. Rarely used features like Copilot Podcasts are getting…

The only AI glossary you’ll need this year

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might en…

250th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Declaration of Independence

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Founders of our great Republic gathered in Philadelphia to …

The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari

We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.…

Claude Code's complicated China problem involves bans on both sides of the Pacific

Anthropic is trying to block Chinese companies like ByteDance and Ant Financial from accessing Claude Code, but they're getting around the restrictions through …

One Year Later: President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts Are Delivering for American Workers

As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday this week, our nation is stronger with President Trump at the helm— a leader who believes that people who work ha…

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Security vulnerability reports have exploded since AI models started hunting for bugs

Epoch AI reports a sharp rise in security vulnerability reports. In June 2026, 21 organizations reported about 1,500 high-severity and critical CVEs, more than …

Claude Code v2.1.200

UK's AI Security Institute finds standard benchmarks systematically underestimate what AI agents can actually do

In a study covering seven benchmarks, the UK's AI Security Institute shows that standard AI evaluations systematically underestimate agent capabilities by cappi…

Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week

Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200 per week, according to an internal memo reported by The Information. The article Tesla caps employee AI spending at $200…

Meta's AI agent push is moving slower than Zuckerberg planned

Mark Zuckerberg admitted to weaknesses in the company's restructuring during an internal town hall. The AI agents Meta reorganized around are progressing slower…

GPT and Claude failed Bridgewater's finance tests because the right answers were never public

The hedge fund Bridgewater and Thinking Machines Lab report that a finely tuned open-weight model outperforms the most powerful AI models in the evaluation of f…

Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up for Hong Kong IPO

Kuaishou has raised about $2 billion from investors for its AI video division, Kling. The article Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up …

A dual transformation agenda for Europe’s chemicals industry

The strongest chemical company transformations in Europe perform a difficult balancing act: improving performance while radically reshaping portfolios, operatio…

Upcoming deprecation of Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash

We will deprecate Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code c…

Improved accuracy and coverage in Copilot usage metrics reports

We’ve made three improvements to the Copilot usage metrics API that make its reports more complete and accurate: GitHub Copilot CLI now reports suggested …

Claude Code v2.1.199

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Copilot CLI no longer needs a personal access token in GitHub Actions

You can now run GitHub Copilot CLI in GitHub Actions using the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN. This means that you no longer need to create and store a personal access t…