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As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-02-22 03:59:19

Silicon Valley has opined on the promise of generative AI to forge new career paths and economic opportunities – like the newly coveted solo unicorn startup. Banks and analysts have touted AI’s potential to boost GDP. But those gains are unlikely to be distributed equally in the face of what many expect to be widespread AI-related job loss. Amid this backdrop, Anthropic on Friday launched its Economic Futures Program, a new initiative to support research on AI’s impacts on the labor market and

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Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-02-22 08:28:07

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Picture this: You give an artificial intelligence complete control over a small shop. Not just the cash register — the whole operation. Pricing, inventory, customer service, supplier negotiations, the works. What could possibly go wrong? New Anthropic research published Friday provides a definitive answer: everything. The AI company’s ass

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My Lights Run on Bash

news.ycombinator.com Tomasz Kramkowski 2026-02-21 22:09:42

My Lights Run on Bash Among the many hobbies that modern nerds pick up, one has recently become incredibly popular: making everything in your house dangerously unreliable by inserting a bunch of software where previously simple wires had sufficed. In this post, I describe how I replaced the wires between my lights and my light switches with some Bash. Bash as critical infrastructure? Am I alright? Do I need to see a psychiatrist? These are all good questions, but let's leave them for another p

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Anthropic has a plan to combat AI-triggered job losses predicted by its CEO

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-02-22 12:13:00

NurPhoto/Getty Images The rise and rapid adoption of advanced AI tools has led to widespread concerns about mass job displacement and other economic disruptions. Now, one of the industry's biggest players is looking ahead, hoping to understand what steps can be taken in the present to brace the world for the future. AI start-up Anthropic announced Friday that it was launching its Economic Futures Program, a research initiative devoted to studying and preparing for AI's near-term economic impac

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Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-22 10:09:14

We let Claude manage an automated store in our office as a small business for about a month. We learned a lot from how close it was to success—and the curious ways that it failed—about the plausible, strange, not-too-distant future in which AI models are autonomously running things in the real economy. Anthropic partnered with Andon Labs, an AI safety evaluation company, to have Claude Sonnet 3.7 operate a small, automated store in the Anthropic office in San Francisco. Here is an excerpt of

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How Anthropic's new initiative will prepare for AI's looming economic impact

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-02-22 17:52:39

NurPhoto/Getty Images The rise and rapid adoption of advanced AI tools has led to widespread concerns about mass job displacement and other economic disruptions. Now, one of the industry's biggest players is looking ahead, hoping to understand what steps can be taken in the present to brace the world for the future. AI start-up Anthropic announced Friday that it was launching its Economic Futures Program, a research initiative devoted to studying and preparing for AI's near-term economic impac

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My Lights Run on Bash – Tomasz Kramkowski

news.ycombinator.com Tomasz Kramkowski 2026-02-22 22:09:42

My Lights Run on Bash Among the many hobbies that modern nerds pick up, one has recently become incredibly popular: making everything in your house dangerously unreliable by inserting a bunch of software where previously simple wires had sufficed. In this post, I describe how I replaced the wires between my lights and my light switches with some Bash. Bash as critical infrastructure? Am I alright? Do I need to see a psychiatrist? These are all good questions, but let's leave them for another p

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10 Years of Pomological Watercolors

news.ycombinator.com Parker Higgins 2026-02-23 08:42:04

10 years of pomological watercolors A decade ago today I published a blog post calling for the US government to release its paintings of fruits. The Pomological Watercolor Collection, as I had recently come to know, is a beautiful and remarkable corpus of over 7,000 pictures of fruits and other biological specimens, made between the 1880s and 1940s. Through a handful of FOIA requests I’d learned that the images had been meticulously digitized and put online for purchase, but that less than 100

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Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-24 22:33:20

On Wednesday, Anthropic announced a new feature that expands its Artifacts document management system into the basis of a personal AI app gallery resembling something from the Flash game era of the early 2000s—though these apps run on modern web code rather than Adobe's defunct plugin. Using plain English dialogue, users can build and share interactive applications directly within Claude's chatbot interface using a new API capability that lets artifacts interact with Claude itself. Claude is an

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People use AI for companionship much less than we’re led to believe

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2026-02-25 03:21:28

The overabundance of attention paid to how people are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support, sometimes even striking up relationships, often leads one to think such behavior is commonplace. A new report by Anthropic, which makes the popular AI chatbot Claude, reveals a different reality: In fact, people rarely seek out companionship from Claude and turn to the bot for emotional support and personal advice only 2.9% of the time. “Companionship and roleplay combined comprise less than 0.5

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Anthropic destroyed millions of physical books to train its AI, court documents reveal

techspot.com Daniel Sims 2026-02-25 22:51:00

WTF?! Generative AI has already faced sharp criticism for its well-known issues with reliability, its massive energy consumption, and the unauthorized use of copyrighted material. Now, a recent court case reveals that training these AI models has also involved the large-scale destruction of physical books. Buried in the details of a recent split ruling against Anthropic is a surprising revelation: the generative AI company destroyed millions of physical books by cutting off their bindings and d

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People use AI for companionship much less than we’re led to think

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2026-02-25 21:21:28

The overabundance of attention paid to how people are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support, sometimes even striking up relationships, often leads one to think such behavior is commonplace. A new report by Anthropic, which makes the popular AI chatbot Claude, reveals a different reality: In fact, people rarely seek out companionship from Claude, and turn to the bot for emotional support and personal advice only 2.9% of the time. “Companionship and roleplay combined comprise less than 0.

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Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-02-27 08:33:29

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Anthropic is adding a new feature to its Claude AI chatbot that lets you build AI-powered apps right inside the app. The upgrade, launching in beta, builds upon Anthropic’s Artifacts feature introduced last year that lets you see and interact with what you ask Claude to make. “Start building in the Claude app by enabling this new interactive capability,” the company says in a

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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-27 17:00:03

On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude, an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. In the process, the company cut millions of print books from their bindings, scanned them into digital files, and threw away the originals solely for the purpose of training AI—details buried in a copyright ruling on fair use whose broader fair use implications we reported yesterday. The 32-page legal decision tells the stor

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Anthropic just made every Claude user a no-code app developer

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-02-28 08:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Anthropic announced Wednesday that it will transform its Claude AI assistant into a platform for creating interactive, shareable applications, marking a significant evolution from conversational chatbots toward functional software tools that users can build and distribute without coding knowledge. The San Francisco-based AI company reveal

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Anthropic makes it easier to create and share Claude's bite-sized Artifact apps

engadget.com Unknown 2026-02-28 08:00:22

Last August, Anthropic released Artifacts. The feature allows Claude users to create small, AI-programmed apps for their own use. Today, Anthropic is making it easier to share Artifacts. At the same time, it's making the apps you can make with the feature more powerful. To start, Artifacts now have their own dedicated space you can access from the Claude app sidebar. Here you'll find a curated selection of projects made by other people to get you started on your own programs. Every Artifact you

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Anthropic launches new AI feature to build your own customizable chatbots

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2026-02-28 08:00:14

Anthropic Anthropic, the American startup company that produces the Claude family of generative artificial intelligence programs, on Wednesday said users can now make full-fledged applications using the "artifacts" function in Claude, and choose from a curated list of pre-built apps others have made. Artifacts, which were introduced in June of last year, and made generally available in August, allow for objects you make at the prompt — a picture, a diagram — to be displayed in their own separa

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Federal court says AI training on books is fair use, but sends Anthropic to trial over pirated copies

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-02-28 15:58:00

What just happened? A federal court has delivered a split decision in a high-stakes copyright case that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence development. US District Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its Claude AI system qualifies as lawful "fair use" under copyright law, marking a significant victory for the AI industry. However, the judge simultaneously ordered the company to face trial this December for allegedly building a "central l

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Court says AI training on books is fair use but Anthropic must face trial over pirated copies

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-03-01 03:58:00

What just happened? A federal court has delivered a split decision in a high-stakes copyright case that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence development. US District Judge William Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its Claude AI system qualifies as lawful "fair use" under copyright law, marking a significant victory for the AI industry. However, the judge simultaneously ordered the company to face trial this December for allegedly building a "central l

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Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-03-01 20:12:44

Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books 47 minutes ago Share Save Natalie Sherman and Lucy Hooker BBC News Share Save Getty Images A US judge has ruled that using books to train artificial intelligence (AI) software is not a violation of US copyright law. The decision came out of a lawsuit brought last year against AI firm Anthropic by three writers, a novelist, and two non-fiction authors, who accused the firm of stealing their work to train its Claude AI model and build a multi-bi

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I changed 5 settings on my TV to give it an instant performance boost

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-03-01 20:30:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Whether you're considering buying a new TV or your old flat panel seems to be doing fine, there are still ways to optimize your viewing experience, and it all begins with your television's settings. Let's explore some of the key factors determining how your TV performs and what you can do to make it look even better. 1. Turn down the sharpness The sharper the picture, the better. Right? Not necessarily. Contrary to popular belief, the "sharpness" setting on your TV doesn't af

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PicoEMP: low-cost Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI) tool

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-01 21:05:56

The PicoEMP is a low-cost Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI) tool, designed specifically for self-study and hobbiest research. Under the safety shield it looks like this: You can see some details of the design in the Intro Video. Thanks / Contributors PicoEMP is a community-focused project, with major contributions from: Colin O'Flynn (original HW design, simple Python demo) stacksmashing (C firmware for full PIO feature-set) Lennert Wouters (C improvements, first real demo) @nilswier

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Judge OKs Anthropic's Use of Copyrighted Books in AI Training. That's Bad News for Creators

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-02 16:36:22

Anthropic's use of copyright-protected books in its AI training process was "exceedingly transformative" and fair use, US senior district judge William Alsup ruled on Monday. It's the first time a judge has decided in favor of an AI company on the issue of fair use, in a significant win for generative AI companies and a blow for creators. Fair use is a doctrine that's part of US copyright law. It's a four-part test that, when the criteria is met, lets people and companies use protected content

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Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-02 17:56:58

Artificial intelligence companies don't need permission from authors to train their large language models (LLMs) on legally acquired books, US District Judge William Alsup ruled Monday. The first-of-its-kind ruling that condones AI training as fair use will likely be viewed as a big win for AI companies, but it also notably put on notice all the AI companies that expect the same reasoning will apply to training on pirated copies of books—a question that remains unsettled. In the specific case

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Judge rules Anthropic's AI training on copyrighted materials is fair use

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-02 22:26:03

Anthropic has received a mixed result in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of authors who claimed the company used their copyrighted creations without permission. On the positive side for the artificial intelligence company, senior district judge William Alsup of the US District Court for the Northern District of California determined that Anthropic's training of its AI tools on copyrighted works was protected as fair use. Developing large language models for artificial intelligence has

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A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books

news.ycombinator.com Amanda Silberling 2026-03-02 20:22:14

Federal judge William Alsup ruled that it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI models on published books without the authors’ permission. This marks the first time that the courts have given credence to AI companies’ claim that fair use doctrine can absolve AI companies from fault when they use copyrighted materials to train large language models (LLMs). This decision comes as a blow to authors, artists, and publishers who have brought dozens of lawsuits against companies like OpenAI, Meta,

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Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2026-03-03 02:26:26

Anthropic has scored a major victory in an ongoing legal battle over artificial intelligence models and copyright, one that may reverberate across the dozens of other AI copyright lawsuits winding through the legal system in the United States. A court has determined that it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI tools on copyrighted works, arguing that the behavior is shielded by the “fair use” doctrine, which allows for unauthorized use of copyrighted materials under certain conditions. “The

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Judge rules Anthropic did not violate authors' copyrights with AI book training

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2026-03-03 08:47:29

Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21st, 2025. Anthropic's use of books to train its artificial intelligence model Claude was "fair use" and "transformative," a federal judge ruled late on Monday. Amazon -backed Anthropic's AI training did not violate the authors' copyrights since the large language models "have not reproduced to the public a given work's creative elements, nor even one author's identifiable

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Judge sides with Anthropic over training AI on books without authors' permission

news.ycombinator.com Amanda Silberling 2026-03-03 08:22:14

Federal judge William Alsup ruled that it was legal for Anthropic to train its AI models on published books without the authors’ permission. This marks the first time that the courts have given credence to AI companies’ claim that fair use doctrine can absolve AI companies from fault when they use copyrighted materials to train LLMs. This decision comes as a blow to authors, artists, and publishers who have brought dozens of lawsuits against companies like OpenAI, Meta, Midjourney, Google, and

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Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-03-03 06:16:55

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. A federal judge has sided with Anthropic in an AI copyright case, ruling that training — and only training — its AI models on legally purchased books without authors’ permission is fair use. It’s a first-of-its-kind ruling in favor of the AI industry, but it’s importantly limited specifically to physical books Anthropic purchased and digitized. Jud

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As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout

Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad

My Lights Run on Bash

Anthropic has a plan to combat AI-triggered job losses predicted by its CEO

Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?)

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My Lights Run on Bash – Tomasz Kramkowski

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Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age

People use AI for companionship much less than we’re led to believe

Anthropic destroyed millions of physical books to train its AI, court documents reveal

People use AI for companionship much less than we’re led to think

Anthropic now lets you make apps right from its Claude AI chatbot

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Anthropic just made every Claude user a no-code app developer

Anthropic makes it easier to create and share Claude's bite-sized Artifact apps

Anthropic launches new AI feature to build your own customizable chatbots

Federal court says AI training on books is fair use, but sends Anthropic to trial over pirated copies

Court says AI training on books is fair use but Anthropic must face trial over pirated copies

Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books

I changed 5 settings on my TV to give it an instant performance boost

PicoEMP: low-cost Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI) tool

Judge OKs Anthropic's Use of Copyrighted Books in AI Training. That's Bad News for Creators

Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training

Judge rules Anthropic's AI training on copyrighted materials is fair use

A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books

Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims

Judge rules Anthropic did not violate authors' copyrights with AI book training

Judge sides with Anthropic over training AI on books without authors' permission

Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books

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