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Anthropic essentially bans OpenClaw from Claude by making subscribers pay extra

Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude…

Anthropic is having a moment in the private markets; SpaceX could spoil the party

Glen Anderson has been brokering trades in private company shares since 2010, back when the number of institutional investors focused on the late-stage private market could be counted on two hands. Today, he says, there are thousands. As president of…

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk

Meta has paused all its work with the data contracting firm Mercor while it investigates a major security breach that impacted the startup, two sources confirmed to WIRED. The pause is indefinite, the sources said. Other major AI labs are…

We may have seen a ‘dirty fireball’ star explosion for the first time

Dying stars can emit a powerful jet of radiation, as seen in an artist’s impression Stocktrek Images, Inc./Alamy Astronomers think they have seen a type of explosion produced by a dying star called a dirty fireball for the first time,…

Ancient humans didn’t need braces. So why do we?

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Today braces are something of a rite of passage. But for hundreds of thousands of years, our ancient ancestors didn’t need them. So what…

This tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old fossil just rewrote the origin of spiders

After a long day of teaching, Rudy Lerosey-Aubril turned to a familiar task: preparing a Cambrian arthropod fossil for study. At first glance, the specimen looked typical for its age. But as he carefully removed surrounding material, something unusual appeared….

The Artemis II crew snapped some mesmerizing photos of Earth

On their way around the Moon, the Artemis II crew had time to snap some terrific pictures of our blue planet. NASA has begun sharing the images, including the one above, which shows a striking view of Earth through the…

Mercedes adds steer-by-wire — and a dang steering yoke — to the EQS

Steer-by-wire, in which a car can be steered electronically rather than through a physical connection between the steering wheel and steering rack, is coming to Mercedes-Benz. The German automaker says it will use the steering technology in its forthcoming refreshed…

The Facebook insider building content moderation for the AI era

When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica fallout. At the time, he thought he could simply fix Facebook’s content moderation problem with…

The Best Samsung Galaxy S26 Cases (2026): S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra

Other Cases to Consider Photograph: Louryn Strampe Spigen Tough Armor and Nano Pop MagFit Cases: These affordable cases both look and perform well for the price. The Nano Pop case was just a little too slippery for me, and the…