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Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 as its new default mid-tier frontier model with a 1M-token context window and agentic capabilities, while also receiving approval to release Fable/Mythos 5 after government coordination…
Asia's manufacturing sector expanded in June driven by global AI demand, offsetting economic drag from the Iran war, with China, Japan, and South Korea reporting growth in factory activity due to robust demand for chips …
NVIDIA is expanding its robotics hiring in China, opening roles in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen across embodied AI, simulation, deployment, and solution architecture. The company aims to develop next-generation genera…
RouterBase provides an OpenAI-compatible API that enables developers to test model fallback logic with a simple two-model chain. By using environment variables to configure primary and fallback models, teams can prototyp…
NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe told TechCrunch that AI will be heavily involved in the next era of UPI payment growth, emphasizing small specialized language models trained on India's payment data rather than large general-purpose …
Microsoft plans to cut less than 2.5% of its workforce next week, targeting sales, consulting, and Xbox roles as the company reallocates spending toward AI infrastructure. The reductions follow a voluntary retirement pro…
Siteline found that AI agents frequently fail to extract list prices from B2B websites due to client-side JavaScript rendering and pricing pages behind contact forms, forcing agents to rely on stale third-party data. The…
An engineer at Anthropic achieved an 85% reduction in Claude API costs by enabling prompt caching on a long system prompt. The caching feature, which stores repeated prompt prefixes for five minutes, dropped daily costs …
Primitive has introduced a new metric called Return on Agent Capital (ROAC) to evaluate AI agent performance in banking, partnering with MX to reach 1,700 financial institutions. The metric aims to provide CFOs with a st…
The US government lifted export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable AI models, restoring public access after weeks of talks. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced Anthropic agreed to proactively detect sec…
Autonomous pharmacy kiosks are gaining traction as the next major innovation in healthcare, offering automated prescription dispensing and reducing human error. These systems leverage AI and robotics to streamline pharma…
UBTech unveiled the U1 humanoid robot in Shenzhen on Tuesday, featuring silicone skin and emotional AI, priced from 119,800 yuan to 990,000 yuan. The robot is designed for domestic companionship, with 88 servo joints and…
Mastercard launched agent-to-agent payments, validating the agentic payments market. However, AgentWallex argues that legacy card infrastructure is incompatible with agent-native operations, which require sub-150ms autho…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei tempered expectations for AI-driven scientific breakthroughs at the company's 'The Briefing: AI for Science' event, suggesting the 'compressed 21st century' he predicted might not occur for a d…
The US Commerce Department lifted export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models, allowing the company to restore customer access starting July 1. The ban was imposed after concerns about jailbreak vul…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong argues that AI will enhance software security by enabling defenders to scan all code before production, flipping the traditional attacker-defender imbalance. Coinbase has mandated AI coding t…
The United States lifted restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI model, allowing over 100 trusted partners including U.S. companies and federal agencies to access the cybersecurity-focused frontier AI. The move reverses …
Snowflake Marketplace partners earned over $100 million in gross bookings revenue in the first half of 2026, a 277% year-over-year increase, driven by over 1,700 transactions. The growth reflects a shift toward AI agents…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026, offering near-Opus performance at significantly lower cost, scoring 63.2% on SWE-bench Pro and 1,618 on GDPval-AA v2. Priced at $2 per million input tokens through Aug…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, an update that improves coding, reasoning, tool use, and knowledge work while reducing undesirable behaviors. The model offers performance close to Opus 4.8 at lower prices …