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Anthropic spent millions on Super Bowl ads to roast OpenAI

Everyone knows Super Bowl commercials are expensive, bombastic, and designed to be talked about. What we didn’texpect was an AI startup using the biggest ad stage of the year to throw shade at a rival’s advertising strategy. That’s exactly what Anthropic has done. The company bought Super Bowl airtime to broadcast a simple message: “Ads are coming to AI, but not to Claude.” Its ads depict a chatbot spitting product pitches mid-conversation, ending with a clear contrast to its own ad-free promise. Even ads these days aren’t what they used to be. Video: Can I get a six pack quickly?, uploaded…
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Inception is Christopher Nolan's best movie
Inception just joined Memento and The Dark Knight, in the National Film Registry. Here's why it's Christopher Nolan's masterpiece.
Anker’s new charger with a screen would feel less gimmicky if it did more
The latest Anker 45-watt Nano charger, announced in January, which remains one of the smallest 45-watt chargers on the market, adds a full color screen displaying an animated character and a smattering of details about the device you're charging. The display is occasionally useful if you like to keep tabs on how much power your […]
An interview with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about the "wisdom of the crowd", political polarization, having Trump Jr. as an adviser, casino comparisons, and more (Oliver Roeder/Financial Times)
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An interview with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about the “wisdom of the crowd”, political polarization, having Trump Jr. as an adviser, casino comparisons, and more — The co-founder of America's biggest predictions market on the ‘wisdom of the crowd’, political polarisation — and the company's adviser, Donald Trump Jr
Fallout 76 crossplay is still in the works, Bethesda says
Bethesda Softworks says that Fallout 76 could still get crossplay on PC, PS5, and Xbox, it's just taking time.