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On Thursday, Anthropic released Opus 4.8, the newest version of its most advanced publicly available model. The model is available everywhere, with standard pricing at the same level as the previous ...

The U.K. chip startup Fractile said it has raised a $220 million Series B funding round led by Factorial Funds, Accel and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund. Founded in 2022 by the Oxford-trained engineer ...

Muse Spark, Meta's first major new AI model in over a year, landed this week, the company's biggest effort yet to show value from its massive investment in Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang. Meta's ...

My post-college barista gig was the first job that gave me purpose. I’ve pulled my own shots of espresso ever since, on a basic machine like the Casabrews 5700. There’s a slogan in the guitar world: ...

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Google rolled out AI Overviews to all U.S. users in May 2024. Since then, publishers have reported significant traffic losses, with some seeing click-through rates drop by as much as 89%. The question ...

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Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines.