have been warning since 2023 that OpenAI might be the WeWork of AI, but also beware that Anthropic’s quarter may be a one-off trading on a brief and already dying romance with tokenmaxxing and a big one time subsidy from SpaceX.
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Anthropic to release mythos-class models in coming weeks
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new from me: anthropic is widely releasing "mythos-class models" in the coming weeks. the company had forecast this last week, but today tucked the timing into the very bottom of a blog post about claude opus 4.8.
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Claude Opus 4.8 achieves 69.2% on SWE Bench Pro, beating Opus 4.7
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ANTHROPIC : Claude Opus 4.8 achieves 69.2% score on SWE Bench Pro against 64.3% for Opus 4.7. Benchmarks
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Apple prepares major Siri revamp with dedicated app
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Apple prepares to announce a major Siri revamp soon, along with a new dedicated Siri app, according to Bloomberg. > These are preview renders prepared by Bloomberg > A new Siri will likely be released in early September Expectations x100
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MS Office now powered by Perplexity Computer
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MS Office is now powered by Perplexity Computer https://t.co/fIcY5TZ7lT
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) 28 mai 2026MS Office is now powered by Perplexity Computer
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Claude Opus 4.8 spotted in source code, might drop today.
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ANTHROPIC : Claude Opus 4.8 has been spotted in the source code. Would it drop today?
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Microsoft Launches Homegrown AI Models as Cheaper Alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic
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Microsoft is launching homegrown AI models at Build next week, positioned as cheaper alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic. Buried in the reporting: relying on Anthropic's Claude forced Microsoft to raise GitHub Copilot prices and cap how much developers could actually use it.
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Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Footage Used to Train AI
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BREAKING: Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses record what you see. Some of that footage is watched by people. When a user shares data to improve Meta AI, the clips their glasses captured can be sent to human contractors who review and label them by hand. The reviewers work for a firm
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Google Genie experiment generates virtual worlds from Maps locations
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ICYMI : Users with access to Google Genie experiment now can use locations from Google Maps to generate virtual worlds. “Golden Gate Bridge”
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Cursor’s frontier model with 100x fewer resources than Google
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it is wild that Cursor trained a model closer to the frontier than Google with 100x fewer people and (guessing) ~100x less compute i am surprised this was even possible. also praying for the Gemini comeback ofc