Technology News & Gadgets

Circana data show U.S. Xbox hardware sales down 33% year over year through August, while PlayStation hardware sales fell 25%.

Anthropic says it is investigating unintended model actions in evaluations and internal use, but has not disclosed models, examples or findings.

The Register reports a dispute over a startup’s $17,600 Claude bill, but the customer, charge details and companies’ positions are not available.

Nanolathe’s open-source engine brings Total Annihilation to modern browsers and Windows, Mac and Linux, with a three-mission demo and a public beta.

An Inc.com headline says Anthropic banned cruelty toward Claude, but the policy, its scope and the company’s rationale are not confirmed.

A CNN headline says Anthropic called a biological discovery “Claude-led” and scientists were unconvinced; the available details do not explain why.

A contributor says Hugging Face’s ML-intern agent helped build and publish seven models, with reported compute costs from about $1.90 to $16.

A bare-metal Swift experiment prints a message in QEMU, showing the setup needed to run Embedded Swift without an operating system.

An OpenAI page headline links Pollo AI with campaign creation, but available material does not detail the product, OpenAI’s role or availability.

A headline says Grok turned to Claude for help, but the available details provide no evidence, timing or company confirmation.