AI
Anthropic’s top models are back
The US government has lifted its export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5—right as competition with Chinese AI heats up. Anthropic’s model returns globally starting today.
Whizy is a writer for Tech Brew. Previously, she was a senior reporter at Vox.
AI
The new tech elite is here
AI money is reshaping who counts as “rich” in San Francisco, as OpenAI and Anthropic mint a new tech elite. It could be a preview of the broader AI-driven inequality to come.
AI
Meta has been put on a Gemini diet
Google has limited Meta’s Gemini use because it couldn’t meet the company’s demand—a stark sign of the AI compute crunch squeezing even the biggest cloud providers.
AI
OpenAI’s government chaperone
The company is staggering the release of GPT-5.6 to satisfy the government’s desire to review it—one of several recent moves to tighten federal control over new AI models.
Platforms
The GTA VI disc-onnect
The good news: Grand Theft Auto VI finally has a release date. The bad news: It won’t come with a physical disc on release, frustrating gamers who see it as an anti-consumer move.
Platforms
Meta wants in on prediction markets mania (again)
The company is reportedly working on a prediction markets app similar to what Kalshi and Polymarket offer—but it doesn’t involve real money (yet).
Platforms
The Tesla car crash blame game
The NHTSA is now investigating a fatal car crash that killed a woman in her home—and it’s reignited questions about the EV company’s self-driving tech.
Tech Culture
Polymarket’s $1.9 million fiction
The prediction-market site reportedly paid content creators to show $1.9 million in fake bets that they never actually placed—claiming wins that would have been losses.
Consumer Electronics
Hey Siri, how much is an iPhone now?
Tim Cook says pricier Apple products are “unavoidable” as chipmakers divert memory production to AI servers.
Consumer Electronics
A computer for your face
Snap announced new $2,195 AR smart glasses—but how many people will actually want to wear them remains to be seen.