AI is moving from chat and web search to delegated work. Why it matters: The frontier AI labs have spent years promising that effective AI agents will act as our minions in the workplace and at home and that might soon be a reality. The big picture: Use of Codex — OpenAI's agentic coding and work platform — is accelerating, according to a new report from OpenAI, Columbia, Duke and the University of Pennsylvania. The researchers separate Codex users into three categories: OpenAI employees, outside organizations and individual users. Then they measured usage of Codex versus ChatGPT, by tokens. - 99.8% of OpenAI employees' output tokens were produced with Codex, compared to 63% for organizations and 16.5% for individuals. - OpenAI's…
AI development is moving so rapidly that soon it will be able to advance itself without human involvement, per a new blog post from Anthropic. Why it matters: "Recursive self-improvement," a process in which AI systems build, test and improve themselves, is a phenomenon which may come sooner than expected, Anthropic says its research shows. Driving the news: Anthropic warns that AI is no longer just changing how people work, it's also beginning to change how AI itself gets built. - New data from the company suggests that frontier models have accelerated coding, debugging and research. - That is likely to create a feedback loop in which AI systems create even more sophisticated successors. What they're saying: "We've always found that…
The artificial intelligence company, which is racing rival OpenAI to the stock market, has seen explosive growth over the last year thanks largely to technology that can automatically write computer code.
Corporate leaders are starting to question whether soaring AI spending is delivering meaningful returns. Why it matters: Companies that rushed to embrace AI are now confronting ballooning IT costs, uncertain productivity gains and growing employee skepticism. Driving the news: Microsoft canceled most of its Claude Code licenses, in part over costs, according to The Verge , and Uber's COO said AI costs are getting "harder to justify." - An AI consultant tells Axios one of their clients recently spent half a billion dollars in a single month after failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees. - Companies are citing AI's ability to automate jobs as a cause for layoffs , though Anuj Kapur, CEO of CloudBees, told Axios that…
Demand for security engineers has surged as artificial intelligence generates a glut of new code and models like Anthropic’s Mythos create new concerns.
PORTLAND, OR — After losing his coding job to artificial intelligence, local man Roger Garrison was told by political pundits that he should instead learn to mine coal.
Jeremy Crane, founder and CEO of PocketOS, shared in an in-depth post on X, explaining how the AI coding agent Cursor deleted his company's entire production database in about 9 seconds flat.
Anthropic is hitting turbulence at a critical moment, with a cascade of challenges converging ahead of a potential IPO that could value the company near $800 billion. Why it matters: The AI darling, whose revenue has tripled to $30 billion this year on the back of its wildly popular coding tools, has never been more valuable or more vulnerable. - Chief rival OpenAI senses opportunity in the Claude maker's recent stumbles, courting frustrated developers and pitching itself as the steadier alternative ahead of dueling IPOs. Zoom in: Anthropic's problems over the past two months span nearly every part of its business — product quality, pricing, security and capacity — and are starting to compound. 1. Model backlash: Perceived declines…
OpenAI is mobilizing consulting partners and touting its compute edge to claw back enterprise customers from Anthropic, as both labs barrel toward potential IPOs. Why it matters: The outcome of this fight could determine which company hits the public markets with momentum, and which has to explain to investors why it's losing ground. Driving the news: OpenAI is working to take market share from Anthropic's enterprise business. - The AI lab is engaging over half a dozen consulting partners to help enterprises deploy and scale Codex, OpenAI's coding tool. - Partners will get early access to AI tools in hopes that they can help enterprises "rethink their business processes in the age of AI in a different way," chief revenue officer Denise…
Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 4.7, a meaningful upgrade to its flagship AI model with better coding, sharper vision and a new ability to double-check its own work. Why it matters: Anthropic publicly conceded that the new Opus model does not match the performance of Mythos , a highly advanced system that the company hasn't released to the public due to safety concerns. - In a chart accompanying its announcement , Anthropic showed that Opus 4.7 beats Opus 4.6, ChatGPT 5.4, Google Gemini 3.1 Pro in a number of key benchmarks. - But Opus 4.7 still falls short of its Mythos Preview model, which has only been released to a handpicked group of tech and cybersecurity companies. What they're saying: "Opus 4.7 is a notable…