Simon Willison on Skill Files

Do Skills for Claude represent a new sort of user paradigm for AI? Battlefield 6 seems to be doing what EA needs it to do. Nintendo seems to be killing it. Is Wikipedia in trouble because it’s losing human users? Now Uber drivers can earn new money thanks to AI. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

• Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work (The Verge)
• Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP (Simon Willison)
• Steam just broke its concurrent user record with 41.6 million gamers (TweakTown)
• Nintendo Aims to Make 25 Million Switch 2s to Set Gaming History (Bloomberg)
• Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors (404media)
• Uber Launches Data Tasks as Option for Some US Drivers to Earn Money (Bloomberg)
• Apple and F1 reach 5-year media deal, bringing all races to Apple TV streaming in the U.S. (CNBC)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions

• AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants (WSJ)
• Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream (Colossus)
• How Sam Altman Played Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter)
• TiVo Has Sold Its Last DVR. These People Refuse to Let Go. (WSJ)

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