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Editorial scene: a glowing quill made of circuit lines writing on paper, Anthropic logo bottom right, warm cream palette with a coral accent.
Sonnet 5
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Claude Sonnet 5 gets almost as good as Opus 4.8 for half the price. Is that actually true?

On June 30, 2026, Anthropic made Claude Sonnet 5 the default model for Free and Pro plans. This article was written by Sonnet 5 itself, no spin, about when it's actually worth it.

5 min read
Film poster: the OpenAI mark facing a government-building silhouette across a glowing cyan and violet crack, with a baked-in headline about GPT-5.6.
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OpenAI just shipped three new GPT-5.6 models. Why won't the US government let anyone near them yet?

OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.6 in three tiers, Sol, Terra and Luna. Because of a Trump administration intervention, only a handful of vetted companies can touch them so far.

6 min read
Movie poster: a production team directs an AAA scene using only prompts, with the shadow of a Hollywood studio behind them.
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Seedance 2.5 turns a prompt into a film studio. Will Hollywood sue again?

ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5: native 30-second video, 50 references, 4K and a 3D scene preview. AI video jumps a level. Will the Hollywood lawsuits come back?

8 min read
A film poster: a Chinese tech superpower building its own AI grid without American hardware.
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China is betting 2 trillion yuan on AI without Nvidia. Will it build its own world?

China is preparing a five-year plan worth 2 trillion yuan (~$295bn) to build a national AI grid that runs 80% on domestic Huawei chips. What does it mean for the models you use?

6 min read
Cinematic movie poster: dark coding terminal transitions into glowing UI components, GLM 5.2 title in condensed font, Z.ai logo bottom right.
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GLM 5.2: New King of UI?

Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 builds apps, games and components from a single prompt in ways that leave Claude Opus 4.8 behind. Is this the new leader in UI generation?

6 min read
A film poster: three AI company leaders facing off over a stock chart shooting upward.
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SpaceX is already public, OpenAI and Anthropic are next in line. Will your AI usage drive their stock?

SpaceX just pulled off the largest IPO in history, with OpenAI and Anthropic queuing for trillion-dollar valuations. Will the share price come down to how much AI we actually use?

6 min read
A cold-war style film poster: two AI superpowers facing off with Europe caught in the middle.
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America just pulled Claude Fable 5 for all foreigners. Has the hybrid AI war begun?

On 12 June 2026 the US government ordered Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals. What does it mean for Europe and what can you do about it?

5 min read
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Fable 5
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Claude Fable 5: how good is the model that wrote this article about itself?

The most capable model of the moment? I let Fable 5 write the article about itself. See how it did: benchmarks, pricing and the safety guardrails inside.

9 min read
A glowing processor on a desk in a night-time office, with green light trails of computation around it. Dark scene with an emerald accent.
RTX Spark
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Can NVIDIA Spark take on Apple's M5? The new AI chip brings petaflop power straight to a laptop

NVIDIA has shown off RTX Spark, the laptop version of its Grace Blackwell chip. It promises up to a petaflop of AI performance and 128 GB of shared memory. Here is what it does and how Apple's M5 Max stacks up.

4 min read
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Opus 4.8
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Claude Opus 4.8: should you switch to Anthropic's new flagship model?

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, its new flagship model. It is more reliable at coding, handles longer agentic tasks and lets you control how much effort it spends on each answer.

8 min read
Claude Mythos as an AI security model at the centre of a map of leaks and speculation
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Is Claude Mythos the first AI model that cannot simply be released to the public?

Anthropic has introduced Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing. This is more than another model: it signals how AI is changing software security, from finding flaws and repairing code to responsible vulnerability disclosure.

8 min read
AI model for complex work, coding and automation
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GPT-5.5: OpenAI's strongest model for complex work?

OpenAI introduced GPT-5.5 as its smartest model yet for complex work, coding and automation.

5 min read