NYTIMES (Sarah Kessler) - Software? No Way. We’re an A.I. Company Now!
As their stocks tank, software makers are rebranding themselves as A.I. innovators. Sparkle emojis are everywhere, but some efforts have been more successful than others.
NYTIMES (Ross Douthat and Sophia Alvarez Boyd) - Is Claude Coding Us Into Irrelevance?
Dario Amodei shares his utopian — and dystopian — predictions for the near-term future of artificial intelligence.
AXIOS (Madison Mills) - AI wiped out $400 billion this week — and it's only getting started
Data: Financial Modeling Prep ; Chart: Axios Visuals AI is here — and this week, investors lost over $400 billion to the realization that entire industries are on the cusp of being replaced. Why it matters: The software-industry selloff, sparked by Anthropic's latest release, is ultimately just a baby step in a bigger transformation that may reshape how we all live and work. - It's also the first tangible verdict on what happens when AI starts eating entire categories of work, well before the long-feared white-collar bloodbath even really begins. Driving the news: Anthropic recently released a suite of software-killing tools — prompting investors to reconsider software companies' value, with the sector down 25% in the last week. -…
AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - Anthropic's newest AI model uncovered 500 zero-day software flaws in testing
Anthropic's latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting, the company shared first with Axios. Why it matters: The advancement signals an inflection point for how AI tools can help cyber defenders, even as AI is also making attacks more dangerous. Driving the news: Anthropic debuted Claude Opus 4.6, the latest version of its largest AI model, on Thursday. - Before its debut, Anthropic's frontier red team tested Opus 4.6 in a sandboxed environment to see how well it could find bugs in open-source code. - The team gave the Claude model everything it needed to do the job — access to Python and vulnerability analysis tools, including classic…