Anthropic releases claude opus 4.7: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7
The benchmarks look nice, but you know how it is with benchmarks.
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Meta and Google are to pay 3M after losing case on safety of their products, Youtube and Instagram. The services were considered addictive and harmful by the jury.
Read more at https://finance.yahoo.com/video/jury-finds-meta-liable-child-142507757.html
The biggest linux gaming distros come together and combine their talents to make the experience better for everyone: Open Gaming Collective
Graphene OS rejects to comply with age verification laws, saying, "If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it."
After many years of complaints and requests, Opera GX is now available on linux.
MiniMax releases a new ai model.
Amazon is reportedly creating a new phone, with ai capabilities from alexa.
I don't know how this is going to turn out, but if this is going to use bottom of the line hardware like their Fire tablet project (and Fire phone, too) than they better not do it.
So apparently you can now trade the S&P 500 on a crypto exchange over the weekend.
Not some sketchy derivative — an officially licensed perpetual, backed by S&P Dow Jones Indices, live on Hyperliquid. The real thing.
For as long as markets have existed, the weekend was the weekend. Traders logged off Friday, checked their phones anxiously Saturday morning, and just... waited. That window is closing.
The gap where markets used to go dark just got a lot smaller.
OpenAI acquires Astral to help bring "powerful open source developer tools into our [OpenAI] Codex ecosystem"
Would like to recommend a most interesting AI simulation.
Previously, vending bench was a test which tracked how much money an LLM could get given minimum resources and a snack vending machine.
Now multiple different AI models are put head to head to create competition.
Nvidia launches OpenClaw competitor NemoClaw (named so because of Nvidia's nemotron models).
Although "competitor" isn't quite the correct term here; both NemoClaw and OpenClaw are open sourced - think of NemoClaw as a security upgrade to OpenClaw.
As far as technologies go, Nemo (let's start abbrv.) is written in Python, as opposed to Typescript inside Open.
Interesting study from ActivTrak: AI isn't helping with work; it's making more of it.
According to ActivTrak, "Among AI users, time spent across every measured work category increased between 27% and 346% — with email up 104%, chat and messaging up 145% and business management up 94%"
Read the overview at https://www.activtrak.com/news/state-of-the-workplace-ai-accelerating-work/ and the full report at https://www.activtrak.com/resources/state-of-the-workplace/