Anthropic is bringing back Claude Fable 5 globally after US lifts export control order — where can enterprises access it?

Anthropic is restoring global access to its most powerful generally released AI model yet, Claude Fable 5, today, after the U.S. Department of Commerce last night withdrew emergency export controls.T [...]

Verizon waives late fees for federal workers affected by partial DHS shutdown

Verizon will waive late fees and offer flexible payment arrangements for workers affected by the partial government shutdown. The carrier has made similar offers in the past, like during the COVID-19 [...]

Duolingo will soon start offering chess lessons

Duolingo will soon add chess to its list of non-language courses, alongside music and math. The company has revealed that it will add chess lessons to its app, which will initially be available in bet [...]

The US government shutdown claims an unexpected victim: OnePlus 15

OnePlus has launched its latest flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 15, today in a live event. It’s supposed to mark the availability of the phone outside of China, where it came out in October, but th [...]

Anthropic blocks all public access to Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5 following US government order — what enterprises should do

The US government last night issued an unprecedented export control directive ordering Anthropic to immediately suspend all access to its top-tier Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models for foreign [...]

Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

Microsoft on Tuesday released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact open-weight multimodal AI model that the company says matches or exceeds the performance of systems many times its size — while co [...]

Tech's biggest losers of 2025

It’s the end of another year, so it’s time for the Engadget staff to compile a list of the year’s biggest losers. We scour over articles from the previous 12 months to determine the people, comp [...]

Anthropic offers its Claude AI model to the federal government for $1

Anthropic has announced it will offer its Claude AI model to all three branches of the US government for $1, following OpenAI offering an almost identical deal last week. These deals both follow the G [...]

When will the government reopen? What U.S. history tells us about the longest shutdowns

Markets predict the government shutdown will last weeks, not days. That would put it up against the longest and most costly closures in U.S. history [...]