Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, a cheaper way to run agents Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic mid-tier model yet. It runs close to the flagship Opus 4.8 on many tasks, but costs less than half as much. Anthropic said on June 30, 2…
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Continue ReadingClaude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows Consumers who pay for AI chatbots are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude over competitors, according to new data from credit card transaction analysis firm I…
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Continue ReadingAmazon has dropped its nearly finished Sam Altman film, four months after investing $50B in OpenAI Amazon MGM Studios has dropped Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Variety and Deadline reported on Thursday. The …
Continue ReadingSony’s $7.85M PlayStation Store antitrust settlement has been preliminarily approved A US federal court has preliminarily approved a $7.85 million settlement in an antitrust class action alleging that Sony monopolised the market for digital PlayStation game…
Continue ReadingRivian sued for allegedly promising self-driving features its first-generation vehicles can never deliver Rivian is facing a class action lawsuit alleging it spent five years making false promises about the autonomous driving capabilities of its first-gener…
Continue ReadingGeneral Intuition is raising $300 million to train AI agents on the video game data OpenAI tried to buy General Intuition, a New York-based AI lab that trains agents to reason about space and time using billions of video game clips, is in talks to raise app…
Continue ReadingAllbirds sells its shoes, renames itself Smartbird, and says it is now an AI infrastructure company Allbirds, the sustainable footwear company that went public at a $4.1 billion valuation in 2021, has officially renamed itself Smartbird and appointed a new …
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Continue ReadingA new Android trojan called Rokarolla targets 217 banking apps and can steal your PIN, SMS codes, and crypto wallet funds Security researchers at Zimperium’s zLabs have documented a new Android banking trojan that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency appl…
Continue ReadingSnap launches its AR glasses at $2,195 as a consumer product, betting the company on augmented reality Snap unveiled the consumer version of its augmented reality glasses on Monday at the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach, California, pricing them at $2,19…
Continue ReadingRivian lays off hundreds of workers one week after launching R2 deliveries as it chases its first profit Rivian said Tuesday it laid off hundreds of workers, less than 2% of its workforce, as the electric vehicle maker continues trying to narrow losses that…
Continue ReadingSeattle has been using AI to listen to every 911 medical call since 2023. Nobody was told. The Seattle Fire Department has been using artificial intelligence to listen to every 911 medical call in the city since December 2023, according to a GeekWire invest…
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