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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium, we open the floodgates with a free-to-access chip design week, including expert interviews, a sit-down with OpenAI on its custom ASIC, and much more.
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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium, we open the floodgates with a free-to-access chip design week, including expert interviews, a sit-down with OpenAI on its custom ASIC, and much more.
Reid Hoffman says he's thankful for the data center buildout in the US, while many Americans are souring on it.
Anthropic is adding a "Mods" system to Claude Code, essentially middleware that runs directly inside the tool. Developers can use JavaScript or TypeScript to reshape the interface and behavior, adding custom panels, intercepting tool calls, or wiring up new commands.
Anthropic's new Claude Academy shows that FDEs may be the most coveted role in the AI race.
Anthropic will invest $100 million to train nearly 10,000 AI engineers, partnering with a number of consulting firms.
Since fall 2025, Anthropic has quietly flown in dozens of religious thinkers to talk about whether Claude might be conscious. Co-founder Christopher Olah described the language model as potentially capable of suffering and asked guests to help shape its moral character.
Executives from Microsoft, Amazon, Anthropic and Stripe described AI agents stepping between companies and their customers, without settling who keeps the customer relationship or the data that comes from it.
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super…
This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super…
AI isn't just bringing slop to social media feeds. It's also leaving a massive imprint on the creator economy.
Claude's five plans range from free to usage-based Enterprise. Here's every current price, what each tier includes, and which one actually fits you.
Anthropic has warned that the US government’s view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partners as well as its government work. The warning is in the AI firm’s IPO prospectus, which Reuters reported on Friday after seeing the document.
The healthtech software giant, which makes the widely used MyChart system for accessing medical data, will focus on fixing security bugs for the next few weeks.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang and other tech leaders questioned Anthropic’s Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at Tuesday’s White House lunch. People familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal about the exchange.
Yann LeCun does not worry “at all” about AI wiping out humanity, and he has “zero concerns” about the recent run of rogue AI incidents. The Turing Award winner said so in an interview with Emily Forlini for Fortune.
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon is level with OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra in early independent tests. It scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the same as GPT-6 Astra and one point ahead of GPT-6.1 Sol, Artificial Analysis said. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 still leads the index, with 58.
The AI industry’s new pact with Donald Trump is only a start, according to one of the firms that signed it. Ashley Gold reported the comments for Semafor.
What does “Prompt Cache Warm” actually mean in Claude Code? In this short, we break down how prompt caching works, why Claude doesn’t need to reprocess your entire conversation every time, what the 60-minute timer really means, and why cached prompts can make later requests much cheaper and faster.
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