Statistics of week: “More Americans pay for sports betting apps (5%) than pay for AI… 37% of consumers say none of AI's uses are helpful.
… 2.2% penetration nearly four years after ChatGPT launched. Netflix hit 25% household penetration in a similar timeframe.“
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Paid AI Household Adoption Trails Early Netflix Adoption
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PwC Finds Growing Demand for Human Skills as AI Reshapes Work
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Human skills increasingly in demand as AI reshapes labour market, PwC finds
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Anthropic Economist Challenges Predictions of Near-Term AI Job Loss
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Anthropic’s own head of economics says Dario was flat-out wrong about AI decimating jobs in the near term:
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AI Compute and Energy Infrastructure Shape Strategic Competition
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Intelligence factories, energy systems, compute infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing are becoming the strategic foundations of the 21st century.
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 24 juillet 2026
My concern is not that America lacks innovation or capital. It is whether democratic leadership can move with the urgency and… pic.twitter.com/zV7QrJyMGrIntelligence factories, energy systems, compute infrastructure, and advanced manufacturing are becoming the strategic foundations of the 21st century. My concern is not that America lacks innovation or capital. It is whether democratic leadership can move with the urgency and
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Dari Open-Sources Routing Model Behind 79.8% Terminal-Bench Result
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79.8% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 for $76 in total inference cost. That's the number Dari @daridotdev is launching with today. They open-sourced the router model behind it: a small fine-tuned model that decides which model handles each step, sending most of them to cheaper options and
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Claude Opus 5 Beats Fable on Several Benchmarks at Lower Cost
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NEW: Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5! A major jump over 4.8, and also beats out Fable across several benchmarks (at half the price)
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Claude Opus 5 Approaches Fable Coding Results at Lower Cost
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Insane: Anthropic just launched Claude Opus 5: near-frontier intelligence at roughly half the cost per task. According to Anthropic’s benchmarks, Opus 5: -Comes within 0.5% of Fable 5 on CursorBench at half the cost -Beats Fable 5 on OSWorld at just over one-third of the cost
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Post Compares Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol Token Prices
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Opus 5 is here and available !!!! Less expensive than GPT and better in almost every benchmark. Watch out, GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5. Price per million token Input / ouput : – Opus 5: $5 / $25
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CursorBench Finds Opus 5 Matches Fable at Half the Cost
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Claude Opus 5 is now available in Cursor! It matches Fable 5 on CursorBench (66.7 vs 66.5 at default effort) at half the price. Unlike Fable, it's also compatible with Zero Data Retention.
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Factory AI Shows Harness Choice Changes Code Review Cost
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.@FactoryAI CTO @enoreyes ran the numbers.
— LangChain (@LangChain) 24 juillet 2026
Same code review task, wildly different price depending on the harness
Eno on why a a great model-agnostic harness can make any model better. pic.twitter.com/vaVyQCji9S.
@FactoryAI CTO @enoreyes ran the numbers. Same code review task, wildly different price depending on the harness Eno on why a a great model-agnostic harness can make any model better.