2026-10-21 — AI risk on prime time; Claude Duet

claude-duet — Claude Duet: Anthropic's proactive personal agent

A separate app (US waitlist, Pro and Max) that briefs you each morning, works in its own cloud computer while you're away, and asks before it sends, pays or signs anything. It is the fourth big-lab personal agent in ten weeks, after Grok Bot, Muse and Dots.

jacob-coxon-daily-show-jon-stewart — Jacob Coxon on The Daily Show

Jon Stewart interviews the researcher who quit Anthropic over AI risk (4.2M views). The best part is a sceptical exchange about the industry's post-job "utopia", where Coxon agrees that "naked ambition is kind of the important bit".

ai-risk-us-midterms — AI risk becomes a US election issue

Bills to ban superintelligence or require a kill switch, polls with 70% of voters more worried than excited, and AI on the midterm campaign trail.