AI News: They All Launched the Same Thing!

This is one of those weeks where we got a ton of really, really fun updates, like some really cool stuff that I'm excited to show off. Let's not waste any time. Let's get straight into it. Let's start with this new feature from Claude where it now allows you to create interactive charts, diagrams, and visualizations. So, one of the examples they show is this interactive periodic table where they can actually click over the different elements here. And then down at the bottom, it gives additional details about that element. They also created this visualizer that shows how different loads affect things like roofs. But I just want to try this out. I want to see what kind of visualizations I can get it to make. So for example, show me how compound interest works. It gives me a quick explainer here. And then it starts generating different sliders. And we can see here we've got a starting amount of 10,000, annual interest rate of 7% over 20 years. If you don't add any additional principle to it, after 20 years that 10,000 becomes 38,697. But let's say we add $1,000 a month to it. After 20 years, that $10,000 principle becomes $6.3 million. What about over 30 years? We can drag this slider and in real time we see it updating. What if our interest rate was closer to 10%. And we could just play around with sliders and see how this changes things over time. This is pretty wild. So, pretty cool visualization. Let's do another one. Let's have it create an interactive timeline of major AI model releases from 2018 to 2026. Now, this isn't instant. It does take a good minute or so, but eventually it does show us a timeline. So, we can see 2018 all the way up through 2026 here. And obviously, as the years go on, there's more and more big releases that happen.