Dan Cox, Axios' chief technology officer, isn't a journalist, but his AI insights are vital to our readers. We want to show, not just tell, the impact AI is having on companies — in this case, Axios. - So we asked Dan to share what it's like to live the AI revolution. What his team is experiencing will soon hit lawyers, marketers, accountants, consultants ... and journalists. Here's what Dan told us: One of our best engineers recently completed a project similar to one he delivered a year ago. - Last year, it took three weeks. This past week, he used AI-based "agent teams" and completed the same amount of work in 37 minutes. Why it matters: This is the reality of the AI hype you read and hear about. Yes, coding is the first big place…
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.
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. -…
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…