Anthropic gave Claude complete control over a mini-mart for a month. The results reveal both the promise and peril of AI's economic future. For one month, this humble setup in Anthropic's San Francisco office served as the testing ground for "Project Vend"—an experiment to see whether Claude, the company's flagship AI assistant, could successfully run a small business.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/30/2025
Google DeepMind announced the full release of Gemma 3n, the latest version of its lightweight generative AI model designed specifically for mobile and edge devices, in a move that reinforces the company's emphasis on on-device computing.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025
China's leading search engine provider Baidu said on Sunday it will open-source its flagship generative AI chatbot, Ernie, marking a major strategic shift for the firm and intensifying global pressure on AI model pricing.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025
Authorization infrastructure company AuthZed has launched specialized tools to help organizations control how artificial intelligence systems access and handle sensitive data, addressing growing security concerns as AI adoption accelerates in enterprise environments.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025
A new open standard for connecting artificial intelligence models to enterprise systems is creating potential security vulnerabilities that could be difficult for organizations to detect and manage, cybersecurity experts said.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025
Groq has expanded its cloud AI offerings with the integration of Qwen3-32B, a dense 32.8 billion parameter language model developed by Alibaba’s Qwen team. The new deployment brings multilingual reasoning and conversation capabilities to GroqCloud, marking a notable step in making large language models more accessible for production-grade workloads.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025
US-based cybersecurity firm Operant AI on Saturday launched MCP Gateway, an extension of its AI Gatekeeper platform designed to provide runtime protection for enterprise deployments built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025
Nearly two in five Generation Z workers are using artificial intelligence to automate workplace tasks without their managers' knowledge, according to a new survey that reveals how the youngest employees are quietly transforming office practices.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/29/2025
The Trump administration is preparing a package of executive actions aimed at increasing energy supply to support artificial intelligence development in the United States, as the country competes with China in a technological race that requires massive power resources, Reuters has reported.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/27/2025
Microsoft has emerged as the sole leader among major cloud service providers in the AI-driven security analytics market, surpassing competitors Google and Amazon Web Services, according to new research from Forrester.
A federal judge ruled this week that artificial intelligence company Anthropic did not violate copyright law when it used copyrighted books to train its Claude chatbot without author consent, but ordered the company to face trial on allegations it used pirated versions of the books.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/27/2025
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nvidia announce an expanded partnership to accelerate enterprise artificial intelligence adoption through new modular infrastructure and turnkey AI platform offerings.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/25/2025
Google unveils Gemini CLI, an open-source agent that brings its multimodal Gemini models into developers’ most sacred space: the terminal.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/25/2025