Someone threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home at 3:45 a.m. In response, Altman published a personal blog post admitting past mistakes and comparing the AI industry’s power struggles to the “Ring of Power.”
AI startup Overworld has released Waypoint-1.5, an update to its real-time world simulation system that generates interactive 3D worlds on consumer hardware. The software now runs on Mac and Windows for the first time, with two model tiers: 720p at 60 frames per second for high-performance systems, and 360p for a broader range of gaming PCs with NVIDIA RTX graphics cards and eventually Apple Silicon.
Compared to the earlier Waypoint 1.0 and 1.1 releases, the new version delivers noticeably better visual quality, improved efficiency, and stronger system performance, all while being half the size. Overworld says the model was trained on roughly 100 times more data than the original version.
Users can install the software locally through the Biome runtime environment or try it out via browser streaming at Overworld.stream. More details are available at over.world.
Anthropic has added a feature called "Ultraplan" to Claude Code that moves the planning phase of programming tasks to the cloud. Developers start a planning job in the terminal, Claude works out the plan on the Claude Code web interface, and the terminal stays free for other work meanwhile.
The documentation on code.claude.com lists three differences compared to local planning: users can leave comments on individual sections of a plan rather than responding to the whole thing at once, planning runs in the background in the cloud, and the finished plan can be executed either in the browser or back in the terminal. The browser interface also supports inline comments, emoji reactions, and revision requests.
Using Ultraplan requires a Claude Code web account, a GitHub repository, and at least version 2.1.91 of Claude Code. It doesn't work with Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, or Microsoft Foundry. Anthropic employee Thariq noted on X that Ultraplan consumes roughly the same number of tokens as the previous plan mode. The feature is currently available as a preview for anyone who has activated Claude Code on the web.
Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis compares the arrival of AGI to ten times the industrial revolution in a tenth of the time. "I sometimes quantify AGI as 10 times the industrial revolution at 10 times the speed. So unfolding over a decade instead of a century," Hassabis says in the 20VC podcast. He sees a "very good chance of it being within the next 5 years," an assessment that hasn't changed since 2010, when co-founder Shane Legg predicted it would take 20 years: "I think we're pretty much on track."
Getting there still requires several major advances, including continuous learning, long-term planning, better memory architectures, and greater consistency. Hassabis describes current systems as "jagged intelligences," "really amazing at certain things when you pose the question in a certain way, but if you pose a question in a slightly different way they can still fail at quite elementary things." Scaling continues to deliver results, "although they're a bit less than they were at the start of all of this scaling."
Hassabis also points to a growing perception gap. "Today and in the next year things are a bit overhyped in AI," he says. But looking further out, "it's still very underappreciated how revolutionary this is going to be in the time scale of about 10 years."
Claude Cowork is now available on all paid plans for macOS and Windows. Anthropic is also rolling out organizational controls: role-based access, per-team budget limits, usage analytics, and OpenTelemetry monitoring. A new Zoom connector pulls meeting summaries and tasks directly into Cowork, and admins can restrict specific connector actions like write access.
Claude Cowork is essentially the non-developer version of Claude Code, Anthropic's AI tool that's become popular with programmers. According to Anthropic, knowledge workers in marketing, finance, and law are using the assistant for things like project reports, presentations, and research.
The key difference between Cowork and Claude Chat on the web is that it can access files directly on your local hard drive. The desktop app is available at claude.com/download. Like all agentic systems, it's vulnerable to new cybersecurity risks like prompt injections.
Anthropic partner Microsoft has adapted the Cowork technology for Microsoft Copilot. A version is currently in testing and expected to roll out more broadly soon.
OpenAI is restructuring its subscription tiers with a new $100-per-month Pro plan. The biggest change: significantly more Codex usage for heavy users at half the price of the old Pro tier.
Google Gemini can now turn questions and complex concepts into interactive visualizations right inside the chat. Users can tweak variables, rotate 3D models, and explore data on the fly. The feature is designed to help people dig deeper into content, the company says.
To try it out, head to gemini.google in your browser and select the "Pro" model. From there, phrases like "show me" or "help me visualize" will prompt Gemini to generate a visualization of whatever topic you're looking at. Each visualization can be customized to fit your needs.
Anthropic already rolled out a similar feature for its chatbot Claude back in mid-March. Claude also generates interactive diagrams and graphics directly in the chat when the model thinks it makes sense or when the user specifically asks for it.
