Tracy Mumford

Anthropic claims the model has already identified thousands of bugs and vulnerabilities, including in every major operating system and browser.

For that reason, Anthropic says it's only giving the model to a limited group of tech companies, including Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft, so that they can shore up their defenses.

Now, claims about a wildly powerful new AI model from an AI company should be taken with a grain of salt.

But Anthropic is saying this could be a reckoning for the whole tech industry, and researchers who've been given access to the model have called it a significant risk.

The head of one cybersecurity firm said, quote, Imagine a horde of agents methodically cataloging every weakness in your technology infrastructure constantly.

And finally, 20 years ago, California farmers took a big bet on pistachios, planting acres and acres of the little green nuts.

It was considered a niche product back then.

It had been around, but it wasn't a huge business in the U.S.,

The world's supply pretty much came from Iran, which, yeah, I'll get to that.

For a while, it wasn't clear the bet would pay off.

One pistachio farm executive said there was a market for the nuts as a salty snack, but that was kind of it, just a one-trick pony.

For the kernels, the ones out of the hard shells, he said you couldn't even give them away.

Pistachios started having a moment.

Dubai chocolate, which is filled with pistachio cream, went viral around 2023.

Wellness trends have also hyped the nut as a protein-rich food.

Those factors led to a 60% upswing in global pistachio imports.

Today, there are six times as many acres of pistachio orchards in California than there were in the early 2000s.

Meanwhile, Iran has lost its pistachio dominance, and that was even before the war started, which has snarled shipping.

All of this has turned the U.S.

into the world's largest producer and exporter, with California as the pistachio king.