2026-06-17
Anthropic ships major Claude Design overhaul with design system imports, code round-trips, and a fix for its token-burning problem
When Anthropic quietly released Claude Design in April as a "research preview," it generated the kind of instant traction most product teams dream about: more than one million users in its first week. It also generated a problem. The tool consumed tokens so voraciously that a PCWorld reviewer burned through 80 percent of his weekly Claude Pro allowance in roughly 25 minutes, producing ju [...]
2026-06-17
Meloni says banning kids from social media is not a solution on its own
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday that her government would not take the initiative to introduce a social media ban for teens, breaking from the approach taken by Britain and France. “I am not against a social media ban for under-16s, but I am not either convinced that this proposal alone can solve […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-17
Amazon admits its AI models lag behind OpenAI and Anthropic, but says it can catch up
Amazon’s AI chief has said what the market long suspected. Peter DeSantis, the senior vice president who oversees the company’s AI models, custom chips, and quantum computing, told CNBC that Amazon’s models “haven’t been at the very frontier for the very largest, most demanding workloads.” He added that he hopes Amazon will be “in the conversation about […]<br /> This story [...]
2026-06-17
Britain lobbied Trump for an exemption from the Anthropic AI ban. The answer was no.
Sir Keir Starmer’s government spent the weekend lobbying the White House to restore British access to Anthropic’s most capable AI models. A source close to President Trump told The Telegraph there was “zero chance” of a UK carve-out. The rejection lands as Starmer meets Trump at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, where the ban is […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-17
Mastodon adds email newsletters so people who don’t want an account can still follow creators on the open social web
Mastodon is betting that email, the oldest surviving communication protocol on the internet, can solve its biggest problem: reaching people who will never create a fediverse account. The open-source social network released version 4.6 on Tuesday, and its most strategically significant feature is the ability for creators to send their posts directly to email subscribers. […]<br /> This stor [...]
2026-06-17
Gary Marcus warns OpenAI’s IPO could drag Nvidia, Oracle, and CoreWeave down with it
Gary Marcus has spent years warning that the AI industry is building on shaky foundations. Now he sees a specific chain of dominoes: if OpenAI’s IPO underperforms, the fallout will not stop at one company. “Their values rely to a significant degree on the expectation that OpenAI will have an immense demand for chips and […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]