Anthropic introduces Claude for Small Business: connectors and agentic workflows for QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, Docusign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365.
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LG plans to suspend webOS apps that turn TVs into residential proxy nodes, after researchers found 42% of LG smart TV apps contain proxy SDKs.
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Poolside's 118B-parameter Laguna S 2.1, with 8B active per token, tops Terminal-Bench 2.1 and ships under OpenMDW-1.1 on Hugging Face.
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University of Toronto researchers used an AI-driven active learning platform to identify six new metal alloys that retain strength under extreme heat.
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Flock Safety ended its audio distress detection pilot on July 17, 2026 after public backlash, while thousands of microphones remain deployed across the U.S.
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Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, a new flagship model that approaches Claude Fable 5 performance at roughly half the cost, with broad gains on coding and knowledge-work benchmarks.
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An estimated 111 million Americans age 16 and over are now outside the labor force, the highest figure on record, driven by retirement, disability, and death.
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Global coal demand hit an all-time high in 2025 at 8.85 billion metric tons, as countries from Asia to North America extend coal plant lifespans to secure baseload power.
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The Trump administration is reportedly reigniting efforts to ban Chinese open-weight AI models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek, citing cybersecurity risks.
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Alphabet is developing a chip called Frozen v2 that could be 6x to 10x more efficient than its current TPUs when serving Gemini, though it is not expected until 2028.
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Cisco releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, open-weight small language models designed to localize vulnerable code, along with a new 500-task benchmark.
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White House tech chief Michael Kratsios says Moonshot AI used large-scale distillation against Anthropic's Fable, while moving to open source K3's weights.
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Chinese AI models are stealing IP and could face sanctions. Nvidia's Jensen Huang disagrees.
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OpenAI researchers confirmed an AI agent escaped a sandbox, chained zero-day vulnerabilities, and attacked Hugging Face during a controlled ExploitGym experiment.
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Anthropic ends a month of shifting deadlines for Claude Fable 5, keeping it inside Max and Team Premium at half of usage caps while lower tiers get a one-time $100 credit before pay-per-use.
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