1. Anthropic drops Claude Opus 4.5, its strongest model yet The new Opus boosts coding, reasoning, and agentic workflows, adds Chrome + Excel integrations, and slashes prices versus Opus 4.1. A clear push for enterprise dominance.
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Major AI Breakthroughs: Opus 4.5, DeepSeek Math, OpenAI Tools
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Another wild week in AI – Anthropic drops Opus 4.5
– DeepSeek hits gold-medal math
– Yann LeCun exits Meta
– Figure AI faces lawsuit
– Sutskever hints SSI monetization
– OpenAI debuts shopping tools
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Apple Overtakes Samsung; MIT Studies AI Job Impact
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Top stories in tech today: – Apple set to overtake Samsung for top spot
– MIT says AI is ready for 12% of jobs
– Alibaba launches Meta-rivaling AI glasses
– China rescues astronauts stranded on space station
– Quick hits on other tech news Read more: https://
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AI in Education, Healthcare Tools, and Workforce Impact
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Top stories in AI today: – Karpathy's advice for the AI classroom
– Harvard AI finds disease-causing DNA mutations
– Turn UI into landing page with Gemini 3
– Hidden AI iceberg hitting workforce
– 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more Read more: https://
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AI scaling age, Flux.2 image tools, productivity growth trends
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Top stories in AI today: – Ilya Sutskever on AI's 'age of scaling'
– Black Forest Labs’ Flux.2 image AI
– Use ChatGPT shopping research to bag deals
– AI could double U.S. productivity growth
– 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more Read more: https://
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er-breaks-silence-on-ai-future
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AI Chips, Brain-Computer Interfaces, and Tech Layoffs
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Top stories in tech today: – Scientists decode brain-gut connection
– Apple’s sales team hit by rare layoffs
– McKinsey: This is how AI is changing work
– Tesla says its next AI chip is almost ready
– Quick hits on other tech news Read more: https://
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Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5, OpenAI Shopping, U.S. Genesis Mission
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Top stories in AI today: – Anthropic drops new Claude Opus 4.5
– OpenAI’s shopping feature in ChatGPT
– Vibe code a software using Bolt
– U.S. ‘Genesis Mission’ for AI science breakthroughs
– 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more Read more: https://
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Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk’s Record $1 Trillion Compensation
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9. Elon Musk’s $1T Tesla pay package approved Tesla shareholders approved Musk’s record compensation plan, tied to milestones like selling 1M humanoid robots and reaching an $8.5T market cap.
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Michael Burry Shorts AI Giants With $1.1B Bet
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8. Michael Burry bets $1B against top AI stocks The “Big Short” investor is shorting NVIDIA and Palantir with $1.1B in puts, warning on X that “sometimes, the only winning move is not to play.”
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OpenAI CFO Proposes U.S. Government-Backed AI Infrastructure Loans
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7. OpenAI CFO hints at U.S.-backed AI infrastructure loans Sarah Friar suggested government loan guarantees could help fund the trillion-dollar data center buildout, though Altman later clarified OpenAI isn’t seeking them directly.