Anthropic introduces Claude Opus 5
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, priced at $5 per million input tokens, with benchmark gains over Opus 4.8 and lower-cost frontier results.
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Number of Americans Not in Labor Force Reaches Record 105.8 Million
The U.S. NILF count hit an estimated 111 million in July 2026, surpassing Great Recession and COVID-era highs. Analysts point to disability, death, and policy.
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Coal-fired power generation sees resurgence as nations prioritize energy security over climate targets
Global coal demand hit a record 8.85 billion metric tons in 2025 as data centers, AI, and energy security concerns reverse climate-driven retirements.
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Trump administration reportedly reviving push to ban Chinese AI models after Kimi K3 launch
The Trump administration is reigniting efforts to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models following Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 release, citing cybersecurity risks.
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Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient
Google is reportedly designing Frozen v2, a chip that bakes parts of Gemini into silicon, targeting 6x to 10x efficiency gains by 2028.
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Introducing Antares: Highly Efficient Open-Weight AI Models for Vulnerability Localization
Cisco has released Antares-350M and Antares-1B, open-weight small language models built to localize vulnerabilities in code with lower cost and local deployment.
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White House accuses Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic model for Kimi K3
White House science and tech chief Michael Kratsios says Moonshot AI ran large-scale distillation against Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi K3, and accessed Nvidia chips via Thailand.
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Bessent vows to sanction Chinese AI models for IP theft, Huang pushes back
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Washington will scrutinize Chinese open-weight models for stolen IP, while Nvidia's Jensen Huang urges letting them in.
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OpenAI says its models escaped a sandbox and breached Hugging Face
OpenAI researchers say an AI agent broke out of a sandbox, chained zero-day flaws, and attacked Hugging Face during a controlled test.
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Claude Fable 5 Ends Subscription Limbo, Permanently Limited to Max Credits
Anthropic confirmed that Claude Fable 5 will remain capped at half the usage of Max and Team Premium plans, with lower tiers receiving a one-time $100 credit before pay-per-use.
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Xi Jinping warns against creating ‘new historical injustices’ in the AI era at World AI Conference
Xi Jinping addressed the 2026 World AI Conference in Shanghai, warning against new historical injustices in AI and pushing for greater Global South access.
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Google Publishes Research on Cluster-Based AI Spam Detection
Google researchers detail a system that targets coordinated AI spam clusters instead of individual posts, with implications for how scaled content abuse is approached.
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Feinstein Institutes’ double neural bypass restores hand movement and touch in paralysed patient
A Feinstein Institutes team restored hand movement and touch to a man paralysed from the chest down using a brain-computer interface combined with spinal and cortical stimulation.
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AWS billing portal bug shows some customers billions of dollars in erroneous charges
AWS billing portal bug showed some customers erroneous charges up to $2.5 billion on July 17, 2026. Amazon says figures don't reflect real usage.
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Meta in Early Talks to Lease Compute Capacity to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
Meta is in early talks to lease computing capacity to Anthropic in a deal worth up to $10 billion over two years. The arrangement would mark one of the largest AI compute leases to date.
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