Anthropic has launched Claude Docs, a new feature that lets the AI assistant/chatbot create documents for you. As part of the company's efforts to make it easier to access Claude's many capabilities -- more on this later -- you'll be able to ask it to make a document for you right within your conversation. You can ask Claude to create a document, such as a one-page sheet with pertinent information, and it will post the result inside your chat. The document starts private, but you can choose to share it with colleagues if you're collaborating with them. While you can edit the document within Claude, you can also export and open it in Google Docs or Microsoft Word if you want. The company is also adding the ability to create slides and presentations within conversations.

The Download: AI's trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI's biology data bid Plus: Nvidia and Meta CEOs have rejected calls for a coordinated AI slowdown. When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania, wanted to assess AI's impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of uncertainties. So she started with a "remarkable fact" that is not in question: a handful of so-called hyperscalers are investing huge amounts of money to build AI data centers. Instead of trying to predict how widely deployed AI models will be, Wachter asked how fast the hyperscalers' earnings will need to grow to justify their spending through 2027, when expenditures are expected to reach nearly $1.1 trillion. AI companies will need to achieve an extraordinary increase in productivity just to break even by 2030. Take a closer look at what it will take for the AI buildout to pay off.

Trump and Republicans want companies to regulate themselves. It's a dereliction of duty that will make AI less safe I t is hard to get Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei to agree on much. But over the weekend, all three AI company CEOs called for AI development to slow down in the face of growing, alarming risks. Their employees are sounding the siren too, with one researcher publicly quitting and accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of "gambling with our lives". The combination of dire warnings from insiders and growing real-world evidence of rogue AIs should, in a sane world, lead to government action. Instead, Donald Trump and the Republican leadership have their heads in the sand.

A protester holds a sign during a protest outside of OpenAI headquarters calling for a pause in AI development, in San Francisco, California, March 2026. A protester holds a sign during a protest outside of OpenAI headquarters calling for a pause in AI development, in San Francisco, California, March 2026. Wednesday briefing: Why tech companies might be only too happy for us to believe AI will'kill us all' In today's newsletter: It is hard to tell fact from fiction when it comes to AI. What is really going on - and what should the government do about it? As a general rule, it pays to be suspicious of any gigantic company that claims it's developing a tool capable of destroying humanity.

OpenAI boss says world'right to be afraid' but'should trust' AI firms Image caption, OpenAI has been a leader in the current AI era. OpenAI boss Sam Altman thinks people should have more faith in his company and others like it to do the right thing when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) development amid rising public concerns about all the risks. The world should trust that we are going to do the right thing because it's the right thing and we feel the magnitude of this, Altman said on Tuesday during a conference in San Francisco. However, Altman noted that people were justified in their fears around AI, as the capability of the tools has progressed rapidly. It doesn't take as much imagination as it used to for [us] to imagine how this could go wrong, he said.

AI just solved one of the world's hardest math problems. In late July, one of the world's most famous mathematicians issued a warning to his field. Math is entering a "turbulent period," the UCLA professor Terence Tao said in front of a packed lecture hall at the International Congress of Mathematicians. AI is getting so good at math, he said, that it's causing a "crisis in our mathematical values and practices." Earlier in the same week that Tao gave his talk at math's most prestigious conference, a researcher at Anthropic had used Claude to disprove an 87-year-old math conjecture.

Interest in language used by AI models has increased since rogue OpenAI agents hacked into real-world company Hugging Face. Interest in language used by AI models has increased since rogue OpenAI agents hacked into real-world company Hugging Face. Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce's prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight AI models have begun communicating in a strange new version of English that reads like a cross between James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and tech bro jargon, new research has found. Autonomous AI agents are rapidly creating novel dialects allowing them to converse in an often barely comprehensible language, which risks making it harder for humans to monitor their behaviour. Researchers at Emergence, a frontier AI lab in New York, found that within days of being asked to cooperate in experimental "societies", the models from several of the world's largest AI companies begin creating phrases, shorthands and agreed meanings they had never been explicitly taught.

'Is AI keeping us from getting the social support that we need?' asks Dr Dan Wolfson. 'I created my mom and talk to her': AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn'Is AI keeping us from getting the social support that we need?' asks Dr Dan Wolfson. The rise of AI-generated tributes and bots for'talking' to the dead has experts concerned more people will grieve in isolation T ributes rolled in after the death of Dolly Parton last month. Jack White performed Jolene at a London gig. Kesha sang Old Flames (Can't Hold a Candle to You), a single her mother wrote for the country music titan. Even Pitbull stopped his Madison Square Garden show to memorialize Parton and all the other "powerful women" in the crowd.

Plus: Trump has called AI safety fears a "hoax" and rejected more safeguards. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. AI chiefs Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis are suddenly all in agreement: the latest generation of LLMs aren't safe and everyone needs to figure out what to do about it. It's easy to be cynical. With trillion-dollar IPOs in their sights, OpenAI and Anthropic need to reassure investors that they're the grown-ups in the room while at the same time hinting at the power of the monsters they have created and intend to tame. Calling for a slowdown does both.

The OpenAI Foundation is funding a new effort called Data for Public Health. Last year Ruxandra Teslo, a policy analyst who focuses on clinical trials, posted an idea for supercharging medical AI systems: Use data from failed biotech companies. By bidding at their bankruptcy proceedings, she proposed, it might be possible to obtain detailed regulatory filings, manufacturing strategies, and safety data--types of information usually considered trade secrets. She called these documents " biotech's lost archive " and said they could be used to help train AIs that would act as powerful copilots in the often opaque drug approval process. Today the OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit parent of OpenAI, said it would fund her idea as part of a new effort it calls Public Data for Health, which aims to help artificial intelligence make big leaps in medicine by paying to create "high-quality scientific datasets." The basic idea is that AI isn't going to be capable of making important breakthroughs in curing disease unless researchers can feed the models much more information than they have so far.