Anthropic vs OpenAI: AI Competition Shifts to Platforms
Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 4.5 as ChatGPT adds shopping checkout. The AI race shifts from model benchmarks to platform control. Read the analysis.
LLMs in 2024
A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …
OpenAI, Google & Anthropic All Just Quietly Backtracked User Privacy Settings: Is Your Company's Data Now Exposed?
The AI industry just pulled off one of the biggest privacy heists in tech history, and they did it while you were planning your Labor Day weekend. Three major AI companies, OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, almost simultaneously announced sweeping policy changes that transform AI conversations by default into permanent training data subject to law enforcement monitoring and corporate surveillance. If your media company still allows employees to use free AI tools, these changes represent a final warning: Your most sensitive data could now become someone else’s competitive advantage. The question isn’t whether your employees are using AI. They are. The …
Immediate Actions (This Week)
Conduct a comprehensive audit of current AI usage across your organization. Survey which employees use ChatGPT, Claude or other AI tools, identify what data types are being uploaded, and document current security gaps. Not just the newsroom. Every department from accounting to human resources likely has employees using consumer AI tools. Inform users on how to adjust privacy settings to keep conversations and data private. Also restrict users from sharing AI chats or these conversations could be publicly searchable.
Strategic Response (Next 30 Days)
Policy implementation becomes critical at this stage. Ban free AI tool usage for company business, start evaluating options for secure enterprise AI solutions, create clear data handling protocols and train staff on AI data sharing security requirements.
Anthropic uses a questionable dark pattern to obtain user consent for AI data use in Claude
Anthropic’s new data policy raises legal concerns with its use of questionable dark patterns.
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy
It can run autonomously for 30 hours straight, per Anthropic.
Use of generative AI tools to support learning | University of Oxford
Oxford University tells students they may use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Bing Chat, and Google Bard to support their studies. The university states that these tools cannot replace critical thinking or the development of evidence-based arguments. The guidance instructs students to verify AI outputs for accuracy and treat them as one resource among many. It also says departments and colleges can impose additional rules on specific assignments, and students must follow directions from tutors and supervisors. The document frames AI as a supplemental aid that is acceptable only with continuous human appraisal.
Automating oral argument
The first frontier.
Artificial Intelligence, Totalitarianism, and the Future of Cognitive Liberty
If AI can read us like an open book based on our faces, our body language, and our microexpressions, what can it do to the trajectory of our lives?
Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption
AI differs from prior technologies in its unprecedented adoption speed. In the US alone, 40% of employees report using AI at work, up from 20% in 2023 two years ago.1 Such rapid adoption reflects how useful this technology already is for a wide range of applications, its deployability on existing digital infrastructure, and its ease of use—by just typing or speaking—without specialized training. Rapid improvement of frontier AI likely reinforces fast adoption along each of these dimensions.
Historically, new technologies took decades to reach widespread adoption.
Anthropic Claude's Extended Data Retention for Training Purposes
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Microsoft Copilot is rolling out GPT 5.2 as "Smart Plus" mode
Microsoft is rolling out GPT 5.2 to Copilot on the web, Windows, and mobile as a free upgrade, and it'll coexist with the GPT 5.1 model.
Windows 11 will allow AI apps to access your personal files or folders using File Explorer integration
Windows 11 is testing a new feature that allows apps like Claude and Manus AI to access files stored on your PC using File Explorer. Microsoft is hopeful that adding AI to File Explorer will make you more productive. For example, you will be able to summarise documents, create presentations, or even turn your local files into a full-fledged website.
Windows 11 is testing a new feature that allows apps like Claude and Manus AI to access files stored on your PC using File Explorer. Microsoft is hopeful that adding AI to File Explorer will make you more productive. For example, you will be able to summarise documents, create presentations, or even turn your local files into a full-fledged website.
Exploring MS Copilot
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to present to a group of folks. Like many of the folks I present to, there’s an expectation that you can protect data privacy with free Gen AI tools. I may ha…
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[The AI Show Episode 160]: OpenAI Hits $12 Billion in Revenue, ChatGPT Study Mode, More AI Job Losses, AI Is Coming for Consultants, Big Tech Earnings & Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
In this episode of The Artificial Intelligence Show, Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput dig into the possible release of GPT-5, unveil what’s coming in our reimagined AI Academy 3.0, and examine how AI is transforming job markets, consulting, and enterprise strategy. They also break down key updates from OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Google, and what listeners need to know as AI’s impact accelerates across business and education.
In this episode of The Artificial Intelligence Show, Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput dig into the possible release of GPT-5, unveil what’s coming in our reimagined AI Academy 3.0, and examine how AI is transforming job markets, consulting, and enterprise strategy. They also break down key updates from OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Google, and what listeners need to know as AI’s impact accelerates across business and education.
The Dark Side of Perplexity AI: Privacy Risks You Should Know
While Perplexity AI offers many powerful features and has become a popular AI-powered search engine, there’s a side of it that users need to watch
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Gen AI and LLM Data Privacy Ranking 2025 [2025] | Incogni
The rise of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) and large language models (LLMs) has fundamentally transformed how individuals and organizations deal
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60% of managers use AI to make decisions now, including whom to promote and fire - does yours?
In fact, 43% of managers surveyed went on to replace a human role with AI. Here's how employees can protect themselves in the face of AI's gray areas.
Ai report
Colleges And Schools Must Block And Ban Agentic AI Browsers Now. Here’s Why.
A new class of AI tools is infiltrating colleges and schools—and threatening to undo their purpose.
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Start Where It Hurts: Using AI to Tackle Assessment Pain Points
How AI Makes Assessments Less Painful and More Purposeful
The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth
Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 words. I've written it specifically to be read at your leisure — dip in and out where you'd like — but also in one go.
This is my comprehensive case that yes, we’re in a bubble, one that will inevitably (and violently) collapse in the near future.
I'll also be cutting this into a four-part episode
Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually
Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency.
There are so many (hype/boring) posts about AI coming out every day. It’s OK to use it, and everyone does it, but still learn your craft, and try to think.
Microsoft touts ‘Vibe Working’ in Office apps
: Adds more Anthropic into the mix as Redmond hedges its bets
How to Build an AI Support Agent for Your Business in Just 12 Minutes (No Code)
What if you could build a fully functional, intelligent customer support agent in less time than it takes to brew your morning coffee? It sounds like a bold claim, but thanks to the rise of no-code …
Anthropic Research Shows AI Agents Closing In on Real DeFi Attack Capability - Bytes Europe
AI agents are getting good enough at finding attack vectors in smart contracts that they can already be weaponized by bad actors, according to new research
Back to The Future: Evaluating AI Agents on Predicting Future Events
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Wonderchat: AI Chatbot for Websites | No-Code AI Agents
Add AI support agents to your website in 5 minutes