Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI. His work explores the social and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence, applications in health and science and the evolving policy landscape, as well as safety threats and frontier labs like OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic. Rob’s work is currently supported by a Senior Fellowship from the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. Prior to joining The Verge, Rob was a senior reporter at Forbes leading breaking news coverage of science, tech, and health and a features writer on the privacy beat for Lexology, with his byline appearing in publications including Wired, Time, and The Guardian. When not pondering emerging technologies, Rob can be found attempting CrossFit or trying to find a good cup of coffee. Contact him on Signal for tips: @robhart.01
The company postponed its next AI model, codenamed Avocado, from this month until at least May, the NYT reports. Performance apparently falls short of rivals like Google.
Meta’s spent billions trying to catch up, and Avocado will be its first major release since hiring Scale’s Alexandr Wang to revamp its efforts.
Claude can now communicate across Excel and PowerPoint, saving you from needing to keep switching tabs or re-explaining datasets at every step. Anthropic said it’s Claude “carrying the conversation across apps without losing track of what’s happening in either.”
His Paris-based startup, Advance Machine Intelligence, just raised $1 billion to build AI world models.
It’s another big bet on what might be the next big thing in AI: systems trained on the physical world, not just text and images.
An empty tome listing nearly 10,000 authors — including Kazuo Ishiguro — calls out “theft” by AI companies as the UK government weighs sweeping changes to copyright law. It follows last year’s “silent album” stunt.
Organizers are handing out copies at today’s London Book Fair. Just don’t let Anthropic shred them.
The multi-agent tool, called Code Review, should catch “bugs human reviewers often miss,” Anthropic said. Agents run in parallel and deliver a high-level overview, plus in-line comments for individual issues.
Code Review is available in research preview for Enterprise and Teams customers.
