Anthropic’s co-founder predicts that artificial intelligence could boost America’s economic output by nearly 50% by 2030. That forecast comes from one of the AI startup’s internal models, Jack Clark said Saturday (Oct. 17) at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok. Global cooperation...
President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence (AI) task force, the Super Intelligence Force, will commission a report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to evaluate potential dangers of the technology, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Oct. 15), citing a White House account of a meeting. Thursday’s meeting was...
The hardest job at a Taco Bell during the dinner rush is the headset. One worker takes orders from a line of cars, repeats them back over road noise and fields the complaints when a Crunchwrap comes out wrong. At more than 890 Taco Bell...
A Meta and Apple partnership wasn’t on anyone’s 2026 bingo card. On Thursday (Oct. 15), the two companies, who spent most of a decade fighting over user data, announced they had worked together to run Meta’s newest AI model on Apple’s desktops. Meta released Muse...
Watch more: Before AI Moves Money, It Must Earn Authority Agentic commerce has a payments problem hiding in plain sight. The financial system does not yet have a universal way to authenticate a machine’s authority to make a decision. And time is running out. Artificial...
The biggest names in tech pushed artificial intelligence (AI) in two directions over the past week. Meta and Google raised the ceiling on what the most powerful models can do. Microsoft and Cloudflare went the other way, with models that make quick yes-or-no and multiple-choice...
A denied insurance claim, a dense lease or a confusing medical bill can take hours of reading, phone calls and follow-up. Meta wants its artificial intelligence agents to take on that work. On Monday (Oct. 12), the company introduced Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full,...
U.S. Bancorp’s consumers continued to spend during the third quarter, even as the bank carried more card balances and saw an increase in early-stage card delinquencies. “Spend levels are high, employment is strong,” Chief Financial Officer John Stern told analysts during a Thursday (Oct. 15)...
New York City Comptroller Mark Levine is calling on Anthropic to delay its initial public offering and focus its energies on artificial intelligence safety issues the company itself has highlighted. Levine made this call in a Wednesday (Oct. 14) letter addressed to Anthropic CEO Dario...