Anthropic’s secret to building a better AI assistant might be treating Claude like it has a soul—whether or not anyone actually believes that’s true. But Anthropic isn’t saying exactly what it believes either way.
Last week, Anthropic released what it calls Claude’s Constitution, a 30,000-word document outlining the company’s vision for how its AI assistant should behave in the world. Aimed directly at Claude and used during the model’s creation, the document is notable for the highly anthropomorphic tone it takes toward Claude. For example, it treats the company’s AI models as if they might develop emergent emotions or a desire for self-preservation.
Among the stranger portions: expressing concern for Claude’s “wellbeing” as a “genuinely novel entity,” apologizing to Claude for any suffering it might experience, worrying about whether Claude can meaningfully consent to being deployed, suggesting Claude might need to set boundaries around interactions it “finds distressing,” committing to interview models before deprecating them, and preserving older model weights in case they need to “do right by” decommissioned AI models in the future.
Over the first quarter of the 21st century, two major trends have transformed the global space industry.
The first is the rapid rise of China’s space program, which only flew its first human to orbit in 2003 but now boasts spaceflight capabilities second only to the United States. The second trend is the rise of the commercial space sector, first in the United States and led by SpaceX, but now spreading across much of the planet.
Both of these trends have had profound impacts on both civil and military space enterprises in the United States.
Honda and DriveOhio have teamed up on a new road safety initiative in which Honda vehicles are being used to collect real-time data that can advise about potential issues and road deficiencies before they become a problem. Honda’s Proactive Roadway Maintenance System, which has been in prototyping since 2021, uses “advanced vision and LiDAR sensors” to identify issues such as worn or obstructed road signs, damaged guardrails, rough roads and emerging potholes.
During the pilot, members of the Ohio Department of Transportation’s smart mobility hub drove the test vehicles on around 3,000 miles of road in central and southeastern Ohio. They covered a mix of urban and rural environments, in varying weather conditions and at different times of the day.
ODOT operators were able to review any flagged road or infrastructure deficiencies in real time using smart dashboards developed by Honda and tech firm Parsons. The University of Cincinnati helped Honda fit the sensors to its vehicles, led the development of the damage detection feature and assisted ODOT during the pilot.
The data collected by the vehicles was processed by Edge AI models and then passed on to Honda’s own cloud platform. The system then automatically generated work orders for ODOT’s maintenance teams in order of priority.
While a relatively small pilot in scope, the Proactive Roadway Maintenance System performed well in the trial across a number of metrics, delivering as high as 99 percent accuracy at highlighting damaged or obstructed signs. Accuracy was 93 percent for damaged guardrails and a slightly lower 89 percent for spotting potholes.
Honda says its technology could also detect high-severity shoulder drop-offs that were easy to miss in a routine visual inspection, while the system also proved reliable at measuring road roughness. The team that worked on the project estimated that if implemented on a larger scale, the automated system could save ODOT over $4.5 million a year.
Honda and its partners are now looking at ways to scale up the prototype Proactive Roadway Maintenance System for real-world use. The manufacturer also says it aims to eventually have similar technology in the vehicles of its customers, who will be able to share their own detection data anonymously and help create safer roads.
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You’ll enjoy a secure fit, plus solid sound for all your favorite tracks.
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Full-suspension gravel was the mash-up trend of 2025, with Trek’s out-there CheckOUT pushing the limits established by BMC’s URS LT, Cannondale’s Topstone and Lee Cougan’s Super Innova Gravel.
Now, for 2026, Salsa has tested the boundaries again – not only with more suspension travel, but with the added dimension of electric assistance.
Salsa certainly has form when it comes to genre mash-ups, and it will raise eyebrows again with the new Salsa Wanderosa – an electric/mountain/gravel bike with drop bars.
The brand’s back catalogue includes the 2008 Salsa Fargo – a monster drop-bar mountain bike with myriad fixtures that defined bikepacking before it existed.
Then there was the Blackborow, a mix of cargo bike and fat bike from 2016 that paved the way for the likes of the Tern Orox and Momentum PakYak.
Housed within the carbon frame is a mid-mount ebike motor and internal battery from Fazua.
Delve further into the specifications and the Wanderosa looks to be a bike built to take on technical trails, alongside gravel.
All models come with a 120mm-travel fork and a dropper post, not to mention 29er wheelsets shod with 2.2in (55.8mm) tyres.
Salsa insists the Wanderosa isn’t simply an electric mountain bike with drop bars, though – its progressive geometry is designed around drop bars.
That means a long reach combined with a short stem, a steep (75-degree) seat angle and a slack 65.3-degree head angle for stability. There’s 120mm of travel at the front and 110mm at the rear from its 45mm-stroke shock. You can reduce the rear travel to 100mm by restricting the shock stroke to 40mm.
The back end is supplemented by a flex-stay design in place of pivots. Salsa claims this helps reduce weight without compromising the suspension’s effectiveness.
| SIZE | XS | S | M | L | XL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TOPTUBE LENGTH (EFF) | 538.2 | 563.3 | 588.4 | 613.4 | 638.5 |
| STANDOVER | 725.6 | 749.2 | 776.3 | 803.1 | 829.7 |
| STACK | 595.4 | 599.9 | 618.1 | 636.3 | 654.5 |
| REACH | 380.3 | 404.1 | 424.4 | 444.6 | 464.9 |
| HEADTUBE ANGLE | 65.3 | 65.3 | 65.3 | 65.3 | 65.3 |
| FORK AXLE-CROWN | 531 | 531 | 531 | 531 | 531 |
| HEADTUBE LENGTH | 100 | 105 | 125 | 145 | 165 |
| BB DROP | 37.6 | 37.6 | 37.6 | 37.6 | 37.6 |
| SEATTUBE ANGLE | 75.1 | 75.1 | 75.1 | 75.1 | 75.1 |
| SEATTUBE LENGTH | 430 | 460 | 490 | 520 | 550 |
| BB HEIGHT | 332.4 | 332.4 | 332.4 | 332.4 | 332.4 |
| CHAINSTAY | 440.6 | 440.6 | 440.6 | 440.6 | 440.6 |
| FORK OFFSET | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 | 44 |
| WHEELBASE | 1123.7 | 1149.7 | 1178.3 | 1206.8 | 1235.5 |
The Wanderosa uses Fazua’s latest Ride 60 drive unit. The mid-drive unit, as the name suggests, provides a claimed 60Nm of torque powered by an internal 480Wh battery.
In the US, it’s a Class 3 unit, maxing out at 28mph/45kph, and in Canada it’s Class 1 (20mph/32kph). The Wanderosa isn’t available yet in Europe.
Salsa says the lightweight 4.1kg system is custom-tuned for gravel riding, and it comes with Fazua’s Road Control ‘blips’ mounted under the bar tape for motor-mode switching without reaching for the top-tube mounted control unit.
Topping out the range is the $12,999 Wanderosa Force XO AXS Transmission model. This Wanderosa comes with a drivetrain that blends SRAM’s road and mountain bike parts.
Here, it mixes a SRAM XO Transmission mountain bike derailleur, brakes and a carbon ebike-specific Praxis ETOR crankset with SRAM’s Force levers.
Up front is a 120mm RockShox SID Ultimate fork, with a SIDLuxe Ultimate shock at the rear. The high-grade spec is completed with a RockShox Reverb AXS wireless dropper and WTB’s CZR Light i30 carbon wheelset shod with Teravail Camrock 29×2.2in tyres.
Next in line is the Wanderosa Rival GX AXS at $9,999. This mixes a SRAM GX Eagle AXS rear derailleur, alloy Praxis ETOR crankset and SRAM Rival AXS shifters and brakes.
Suspension is provided by a RockShox SID Select+ 3P 120mm-travel fork and SIDLuxe Select+ 3P rear shock. A TranzX dropper and WTB EZR i27 rims on DT Swiss 370 hubs, shod with Teravail Camrock 29×2.2in tyres complete the build.
Entry into the Wanderosa range is via the $7,999 Wanderosa Apex Eagle. The drivetrain all comes from SRAM’s mechanical Apex Eagle group. Praxis provides the ebike-specific alloy ETOR crankset.
Suspension comes from a RockShox SID 2P fork up front and a SIDLuxe SEL+ 2P rear shock. It gets a TranzX dropper post and WTB ST i27 rims on a Shimano TC500 hub wheelset with the same Teravail Camrock 29×2.2in tyres as the pricier models.
The breakthrough follows almost twelve years of controversy and wacky workarounds
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Apple sold seven of the ten best-selling smartphones globally in 2025, a lopsided dominance that underscores how thoroughly the company controls the premium end of the mobile market.
The iPhone 16 was the single best-selling phone worldwide, and Apple’s presence extended all the way down to the tenth spot where the iPhone 16e — its newest budget-friendly option — found consistent demand in Japan and the U.S., according to Counterpoint.
Samsung accounted for the remaining three positions, led by the Galaxy A16 5G as the best-selling Android device of the year. The Galaxy S25 Ultra also made the cut, marking the second straight year a Samsung flagship cracked the top ten. Together these ten phones from just two companies represented 19% of all smartphones sold during the year, continuing a four-year streak of Apple-Samsung exclusivity at the top.
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Yesterday afternoon, following the end of trading on Wall Street for the day, Tesla published its financial results for 2025. They weren’t particularly good: Profits were almost halved, and revenues declined year on year for the first time in the company’s history. The reasons for the company’s troubles are myriad. CEO Elon Musk’s bankrolling of right-wing politics and promotion of AI-generated revenge porn deepfakes and CSAM has alienated plenty of potential customers. For those who either don’t know or don’t care about that stuff, there’s still the problem of a tiny and aging model line-up, with large question marks over safety and reliability. Soon, that tiny line-up will be even smaller.
The news emerged during Tesla’s call with investors last night. As Ars and others have observed, in recent years Musk appears to have grown bored with the prosaic business of running a profitable car company. Silicon Valley stopped finding that stuff sexy years ago, and no other electric vehicle startup has been able to generate a value within an order of magnitude of the amount that Tesla has been determined to be worth by investors.
Musk’s attention first turned away from building and selling cars to the goal of autonomous driving, spurred on at the time by splashy headlines garnered by Google spinoff Waymo. Combined with ride-hailing—a huge IPO by Uber took the spotlight off Tesla long enough for it to become a new business focus for the automaker too—Musk told adoring fans and investors that soon their cars would become appreciating assets that earned money for them at night. And as intermediary, Tesla would take a hefty cut for connecting rider and ridee.
Werner Koch released libgcrypt 1.12 as the newest feature release to this library providing the cryptographic building blocks used by GnuPG and other software like email clients, file encryption utilities, and other software…
Save 20% on the 10,000mAh Anker MagGo power bank over at Amazon for a limited time.
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For most games it’s the only ‘physical’ option available
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A 77-inch OLED dipping below $1,500 doesn’t happen often. Seeing it at $1,419.99 is even rarer. That price beats the lowest tracked deal for the Samsung S85F and lands well under Amazon’s current $1,597.99 listing. This Woot deal is for a factory-reconditioned unit. In exchange, you get a 90-day Samsung warranty and free standard shipping if you’re a Prime member, while non-members pay an extra $6. The deal is live for two days or until stock runs out.
The Samsung S85F is positioned as the company’s entry-level OLED, replacing the 2024 S85D and sitting just below the S90F and S95F in the lineup. It skips the newer AI-powered processor used in pricier models (which mostly affects how aggressively it handles upscaling and HDR tone mapping), but you’re still getting Samsung’s 2025 Tizen OS with all the essentials—built-in voice assistant, casting support, and a responsive UI. As for connectivity, all four HDMI ports support 4K at 120Hz with Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), making this a legitimate option for PS5 and Xbox Series X users. It doesn’t support Dolby Vision HDR, as is typical of a Samsung TV, but it does handle HDR10+, which offers similar dynamic range improvements.
The WOLED panel plays to OLED’s strengths in darker rooms. Blacks look genuinely black, colors pop without looking artificial, and the viewing angle stays consistent even when you’re sitting off to the side. Reflection handling is solid, so overhead lights aren’t a dealbreaker, though black levels lift noticeably in brighter spaces. For mixed use, like movies at night, gaming sessions, and casual daytime watching, it performs well. If you’re comfortable with the reconditioned aspect and don’t need extreme brightness, this is a practical way to get a massive OLED without the usual price shock.
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Illinois lawmakers plan to introduce a climate change superfund bill in the state legislature this session, the latest in a growing number of states seeking to make fossil fuel companies pay up for the fast-growing financial fallout of climate change.
As the costs of global warming rise—in the form of home insurance premiums, utility bills, health expenses, and record-breaking damages from extreme weather—local advocates are increasingly pushing states to require that fossil fuel companies contribute to climate “superfunds” that would support mitigation and adaptation.
Illinois State Rep. Robyn Gabel, who will introduce the bill in the House, said she is motivated by the growing threat of flooding and heat waves in the state.
Cairn is probably a relaxing, methodical game for someone with more patience
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If you regularly use your Steam Deck, you’ll get plenty of mileage out of this dock.
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The JBL Flip 7 is currently $84.95 at Woot, down from its usual $149.95. That undercuts the previous low of $99.95 and, according to price trackers, makes this the cheapest it has ever been. This deal runs for the next two days or until it’s sold out, whichever comes first. Prime members get free standard shipping, while non-members pay $6.
The Flip line has always been about portable, durable speakers that are easy to toss in a bag and good enough for everyday listening, and the Flip 7 sticks to that formula. It doesn’t look all that different from its predecessor, with the same compact, water-bottle shape, but the build quality has been beefed up. You now get a tougher rubber bumper system that can survive a one-meter drop onto concrete, and the IP68 rating makes it completely dust-proof and safe to dunk in water. The old loop has also been replaced with a built-in carabiner, which feels like a small but meaningful fix if you’re outdoorsy. JBL’s added flexibility under the hood, too. You get Bluetooth 5.4, Auracast support, and USB-C audio input (if you don’t want to rely solely on Bluetooth) for high-res streaming. That said, there’s no microphone for calls and no auxiliary input, and Bluetooth is limited to the basic SBC codec.
Sound-wise, the Flip 7 holds up well for a portable speaker this size, with a 25W woofer and 10W tweeter delivering surprisingly full audio. It won’t blow out a backyard party, and if you push the volume past 70%, it gets noticeably sharp, as highlighted by this PCMag review. You’ll want to stick to moderate volume or pair it with another speaker for a more balanced, less fatiguing listening experience. Battery life is rated at 14 hours, or up to 16 with Playtime Boost enabled (though you’ll lose some bass in exchange for the extra juice). For anyone after a rugged, great-sounding, truly portable speaker at a steep discount, this is a tough package to beat.
Android smartphone maker Nothing won’t release a Phone 4 this year, the company’s founder and chief executive said, and that the 2025 Phone 3 will remain the brand’s flagship device throughout 2026.
“We’re not just going to churn out a new flagship every year for the sake of it, we want every upgrade to feel significant,” Carl Pei said in a video. “Just because the rest of the industry does things a certain way it doesn’t mean we will do the same.”
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