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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, saying it nears Opus 4.8 performance at lower prices and is substantially better than Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work — Claude Sonnet 5 is built to be the most agentic Sonnet model yet. It can make plans, use tools like browsers and terminals …
More: BleepingComputer, Benzinga, MacRumors, Engadget, Simon Willison's Weblog, Axios, Gizmodo, Decrypt, Thurrott, The New Stack, Claude, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Neowin, ZDNET, The Next Web, The Decoder, Constellation Research, TestingCatalog AI News, The Deep View, Mashable, Digital Trends, and RuntimeWire
X: @claudeai, @bindureddy, @dorialexander, @levie, @altryne, @claudedevs, @altryne, @claudeai, @teortaxestex, @rohanpaul_ai, @_maxblade, @banteg, @teortaxestex, @wadefoster, @iharnoorsingh, @alexstamos, @alexfinn, and @kimmonismus. LinkedIn: Rahul Patil. Bluesky: @timkellogg.me
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/claude, r/singularity, and MacRumors Forums
| Kyle Baird / The Block: |
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and 140+ companies join Open Standard to launch Open USD, a stablecoin that shares earnings from its reserves — Quick Take — Payment giants, banks, tech firms and crypto companies are among Open Standard's launch members.
More: Open USD (OUSD) Stablecoin, PYMNTS, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, Bitcoin News, COINOTAG, CoinDesk, Blockonomi, American Banker, Barron's Online, Benzinga, Reuters, The Information, Bitcoin Insider, Decrypt, CoinGape, Fortune, Blockchain.News, crypto.news, The Crypto Times, CryptoNinjas, Bitcoin Magazine, Coinpedia Fintech News, Forbes, Unchained, Finimize, Wall Street Journal, and Cointelegraph
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LinkedIn: Connor Fitzgerald, Christoph Sulyok, and Catherine Gu
| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
SCOTUS agrees to hear Apple's appeal of a 2025 contempt ruling in its Epic case after a district judge found Apple violated an order to make App Store changes — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear Apple's (AAPL.O) bid to escape being found in contempt in its legal fight with …
More: Ars Technica, The Hill, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, PYMNTS, Gizmodo, Benzinga, Courthouse News Service, Washington Times, iThinkDifferent, iClarified, The Next Web, MacRumors, AppleInsider, and MacDailyNews
Forums: r/technology, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60+ scientific databases and specialized toolkits — Anthropic introduced Claude Science on Tuesday, an AI workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference — We closely track efforts by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI to get access to more server chips to run their models. But we don't talk enough about the work … | The Keyword: |
Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers — We're making it easier to experiment and scale your ideas with Nano Banana 2 Lite, our fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini Image model …
More: Google AI for Developers, Simon Willison's Weblog, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Next Web, Android Authority, VentureBeat, The Decoder, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Google, The Deep View, Neowin, Mashable, and RuntimeWire
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Bard, and r/singularity
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams — As companies struggle to integrate AI, they're increasingly ready to bring in outside help — and service providers are launching … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: TikTok settles a lawsuit before a second California trial over social media harm to minors for an undisclosed sum; Meta and Snap remain defendants — TikTok is finalizing a settlement related to a lawsuit claiming that the world's largest social media platforms are addictive to minors …
More: Reuters, NBC News, The Next Web, New Jersey Office …, Channel NewsAsia, and Quartz
| Reuters: |
Filing: President Trump reports $1.4B+ in income from his family's crypto ventures in 2025, including $500M+ from WLF and $635M from the sale of his $TRUMP coin — U.S. President Donald Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in income from his family's crypto ventures last year … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google shuts down the Tenor API, affecting GIF pickers on platforms like Discord, WhatsApp, and Bluesky; Nikita Bier says X has migrated elsewhere — GIFs are a huge part of the modern web, with Tenor being one of the libraries that powers a variety of apps including Twitter/X. Google acquired Tenor …
More: Ars Technica, Google Help Center, The Verge, and PCGamesN
| Reuters: |
Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details — China's food delivery giant Meituan (3690.HK) said on Tuesday it had released and would open-source its next-generation LongCat …
More: LongCat AI, The Next Web, Hugging Face, VentureBeat, South China Morning Post, WinBuzzer, The Decoder, SiliconANGLE, TestingCatalog AI News, RuntimeWire, and The Economic Times
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Forums: r/SillyTavernAI and r/LocalLLaMA
| Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: |
The UK CMA proposes requiring Apple and Google to relax UK developer payment “steering” rules, and Apple to open NFC; Google says it “already made the changes” — Britain's competition regulator on Tuesday proposed allowing app developers to steer users …
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LinkedIn: Gina Sternberg. Mastodon: @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk. Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Financial Times: |
A study of 22K US companies shows those spending most heavily on AI are adding workers faster than peers, but most gains are among tech companies and startups — Study of 22,000 US companies challenges fears that generative AI will trigger broad job losses
More: International Business Times, PYMNTS, CoinDesk, NBC News, Straight Arrow, and TechCrunch
| Emmy Martin / New York Times: |
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new AI elite and may have to leave — As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, tech workers making six figures are grousing that they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite.
More: SFist, Tech Brew, The American Bazaar, After School, STAT, The Decoder, and StrictlyVC
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Plutonomy, r/justincaseyoumissedit, r/sanfrancirclejerk, r/bayarea, and r/sanfrancisco
| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg met with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about a possible takeover last year, before directing Meta employees to build a prediction market app — Before Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg directed employees to build a standalone prediction market app, he proposed buying Kalshi …
X: @bobbyallyn
| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Omen AI, which provides real-time coolant health monitoring for data centers, raised a $31M Series A led by Nava Ventures, bringing its total funding to $41.5M — The AI-driven demand for compute power has data centers looking to squeeze more from every rack of GPUs. One consequence?| Politico: |
Sources: the Trump administration plans to lift export restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 as early as Tuesday evening, making it available to all general users — Anthropic and the administration had previously discussed conducting a technical assessment to evaluate similar risks posed by models in the future.| John Harney / Bloomberg: |
The DOD seeks to recruit engineers experienced in frontier AI, machine learning and automation, and data systems, to embed them “down to the unit level” — The Trump administration announced plans to recruit engineers to fill “high-impact technical roles” at the Defense Department …
More: USAJOBS, Federal News Network, Breaking Defense, DefenseScoop, and Defense One
| Kirstin Ridley / Reuters: |
Almost 1,700 UK investors sue Binance and Changpeng Zhao for at least £150M, alleging Binance sold them risky derivative products without regulatory approval — Almost 1,700 British investors are suing Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao for at least £150 million ($200 million) …
More: Decrypt, Financial Times, and Bitcoin Insider
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Kalshi agreed to pay $20M to sponsor the World Cup knockouts, after initially balking at FIFA's $150M asking price, alongside ADI Predictstreet — When the World Cup knockout round began Sunday, Kalshi joined the likes of Coca-Cola, Visa and Adidas with sideline advertising in the stadiums … | Frank Connelly / Bloomberg: |
Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI company Cognite in a $3.1B all-cash deal, and plans to combine Cognite with its industrial software company Aveva — Schneider Electric SE agreed to buy Cognite in a $3.1 billion transaction to expand its industrial data and AI software business.
More: The Information, Cognite, Axios, LinkedIn, The Next Web, Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters, and Pulse 2.0
| Josh Scott / BetaKit: |
Ottawa-based Dominion Dynamics, which is building software, sensors, and drones to autonomously monitor the Arctic, raised a CA$139M Series A led by Georgian — Six months after closing a major seed round, Ottawa-based defence tech company Dominion Dynamics has secured $139 million CAD …
More: Tectonic Defense, Dominion Dynamics, Globe and Mail, and Resilience Media
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
AI inference startup Etched raised $800M from investors including Jane Street and a TSMC-linked venture firm, and says it has signed sales contracts worth $1B — Nvidia rival says it has raised $800 million and has $1 billion in contracts. — AI chip startup Etched said it has raised $800 million …
More: SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, The Next Web, and RuntimeWire
| Bloomberg: |
How Spain's LaLiga uses nationwide IP blocking to combat illegal sports streams, impacting an estimated 550K+ domains, putting it in conflict with Cloudflare — From small businesses to government agencies, legitimate websites are getting caught in the crossfire of LaLiga's fight against illegal sports streams| Stephanie Stacey / Financial Times: |
Hotels, tour operators, and travel agencies rush to launch proprietary online tools and loyalty schemes to fend off future competition from AI travel agents — Chatbots could help to find, filter and book customers' destinations — Hotels, tour operators and travel agencies are rushing … | Wall Street Journal: |
Filings: Microsoft's Ireland hub generated $47B in pretax profits for FY 2025, or 38.1% of its global total; new EU rules require country-by-country reporting — Country-by-country EU reporting requirement forces companies to offer additional public tax detailsSponsor Posts
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