Enterprises and startups that use Anthropic Claude through Microsoft’s products need not fear that the model will be ripped from their reach, Microsoft has confirmed to TechCrunch and other publications. Microsoft is the first big tech company to offer assurance that Anthropic’s models will remain available to its customers even…

I’ve experimented with a lot of different streaming devices over the years, but I always seem to come back to my Fire TV Stick 4K Max. It’s small, feature-rich, and, compared to other streamers like the Roku Ultra and Apple TV 4K, it delivers surprisingly good performance for such a…

The Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the two failed to agree on how much control the military should have over its AI models, including its use in autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. As Anthropic’s $200 million contract fell apart, the DoD turned to OpenAI instead, which accepted and then watched ChatGPT uninstalls surge 295%. As the stakes keep rising,…

Indonesia will soon become the latest country to pass laws restricting children from accessing social media, following in the footsteps of Australia and its neighbor Malaysia. But unlike Australia, which has banned users under 16 from social media altogether, Indonesia is taking a more age-gated approach to its restrictions. Indonesia’s…

Usually, when Roku drops some news, it’s about new free channels coming to The Roku Channel or an update to Roku OS. This time, though, it’s doing something a little different and diving into gaming. Ahead of the Oscars, Roku has announced a new interactive trivia game called “Roklue,” which…

Over the past few months, several countries have announced plans to restrict social media access for children and teens. Australia became the first to implement such measures at the end of last year, setting a precedent that other countries are now closely watching.  Australia’s regulations, along with other countries’ proposals,…

Health tech giant TriZetto has confirmed that more than 3.4 million people’s personal and health information was stolen in a 2024 cyberattack, which the company failed to detect for almost a year. The tech company, owned by multinational conglomerate Cognizant, serves around 200 million people across 875,000 healthcare providers throughout…

City Detect, a company that uses vision AI to help local governments monitor the health of buildings and neighborhoods, announced on Friday a $13 million Series A round led by Prudence Venture Capital. The startup launched in 2021, and Gavin Baum-Blake, the remaining co-founder, serves as CEO. He said the…

On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4, a new foundation model billed as “our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work.” In addition to the standard version, GPT-5.4 is also available as a reasoning model (GPT-5.4 Thinking) or optimized for high performance (GPT-5.4 Pro). The API version of the model…

Not too long ago, it felt like 8K TVs were poised to become mainstream. All the major brands were getting into the act, and it wasn’t that hard to find one at the bigger electronics outlets in the US and Canada. You could even say there was a sense of…