2026-07-02
I tried Claude Sonnet 5 with prompts that ask it to finish the job, not just answer the question — and that's where the AI war is going
Claude Sonnet 5 shows that the next AI battle isn’t about better chatbot answers — it’s about which assistant can actually get work done. [...]
2026-07-02
We’ve lived through a skills apocalypse before. The solution might look like a flight simulator
AI is eroding hard-won skills the way cockpit automation eroded pilots’ instincts. Aviation’s answer wasn’t to ban the autopilot. It was to build a place to put novices back on the controls. [...]
2026-07-02
Ford’s Q2 US sales fell 10.3% as EV sales dropped 40.7% and an aluminium shortage hit F-Series trucks
Ford reported a 10.3% decline in US new vehicle sales for the second quarter, selling 549,200 vehicles compared with 612,095 a year earlier. Pure EV sales plunged 40.7% year on year. F-Series truck sales, including the F-150, fell 11% after Ford’s top aluminium supplier suffered two factory fires late last year that disrupted production. Ford […]<br /> This story continues at The Next We [...]
2026-07-02
Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in Q2, far exceeding the 406,000 Wall Street expected
Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in the second quarter of 2026, far exceeding the Wall Street consensus of approximately 406,000. Production came in at 451,758 units. The delivery figure represents a 25% year-on-year increase and a 34% jump from Q1, when Tesla reported 358,023 deliveries. The Model 3 and Model Y accounted for 467,762 deliveries, or […]<br /> This story continues at The Nex [...]
2026-07-02
Cloudflare gives AI crawlers a September deadline: pay publishers or get blocked
Cloudflare has set the AI industry a deadline. From September, it will block the crawlers that hoover up content for AI training. Any page that carries ads becomes off-limits, unless the site’s owner says otherwise. The pitch is simple: stop giving the web away for free. The company sits in front of a large share […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-02
Why the next leap in AI video is teaching avatars to see and listen
For the past few years, progress in generative video and AI avatars has been measured almost entirely in fidelity, with each new model making significant progress in delivering sharper detail, better physics, and smoother motion packaged in longer clips. That race is far from over, but it is starting to miss a more interesting direction. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-02
Getty scraps its $3.7bn Shutterstock merger after a UK regulator won’t budge
A $3.7bn plan to merge the world’s two biggest stock-photo libraries has collapsed. The reason is not America, where regulators waved it through. It is Britain, where a single condition proved a deal-breaker. Getty Images will terminate its merger with Shutterstock, the company said this week. Its board voted unanimously to walk away after the […]<br /> This story continues at The Next W [...]
