Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News.
Video from today’s episode: <a href="youtube.com/calnewportmedia">youtube.com/calnewportmedia</a>

(0:00) Anthropic’s new research report
(2:05) Digging into the paper
(3:32) High level tutorial on LLMs
(6:18) Detail on annotations
(13:50) What the Anthropic paper found
(20:39) Why this is interesting research
(26:28) Conclusion on consciousness

Links:
Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at <a href="www.calnewport.com/slow">www.calnewport.com/slow</a>&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace">https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace</a>
<a href="https://x.com/RileyRalmuto/status/2074195587616964757">https://x.com/RileyRalmuto/status/2074195587616964757</a>
<a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/07/06/anthropic-claude-ai-conscious">https://www.axios.com/2026/07/06/anthropic-claude-ai-conscious</a>
<a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/09/1140293/anthropic-found-a-hidden-space-where-claude-puzzles-over-concepts/">https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/09/1140293/anthropic-found-a-hidden-space-where-claude-puzzles-over-concepts/</a>
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