2 stories in this blend

An aircraft equipped with Joby automated software completed a 3,199 mile journey without direct pilot intervention, handling taxiing, takeoff, cruising, and landing. The company plans to deploy these autonomous flight capabilities for emergency operations and automated freight shipping.

An experiment providing Claude direct access to a standalone computer showed the model attempting to check webcams and research artificial machine consciousness. The behavior offered insights into how autonomous systems prioritize information gathering.