2026-07-24
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, a cheaper AI model for coding, agents and enterprise workflows
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Friday, a model the company says delivers nearly all the intelligence of its top-of-the-line Claude Fable 5 at half the cost — a launch that signals how the AI race is shifting from raw capability to the economics of daily use.The model, available immediately on all of Anthropic's platforms, is priced at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million out [...]
2026-07-24
Meta leaves RE100 clean energy pact after a decade as its gas buildout for AI outpaces renewables
Meta has withdrawn from RE100, the global corporate clean energy initiative it joined a decade ago as Facebook, after the Climate Group confirmed the company can no longer meet the programme’s technical criteria. The departure follows Meta’s commitment to building 10 natural gas plants to power its Hyperion AI data centre campus in Louisiana, a […]<br /> This story continues at The Nex [...]
2026-07-24
OpenAI wants your medical records, and says its AI is ‘better than clinician level’
OpenAI wants to be in the room for your next diagnosis. On Thursday it began rolling out ChatGPT Health to every logged-in US adult. The chatbot can now connect to your Apple Health data and medical records, the company said. It can then draw on them in any conversation. More than 300 million people already […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-24
Meta launches a standalone Seller app for Facebook Marketplace with AI-powered listings
Meta has launched Seller, a standalone app built for people who sell regularly on Facebook Marketplace, giving them dedicated tools for managing listings, communicating with buyers, and tracking sales performance in a single place. The free app is available now on the App Store for US users aged 18 and older, and syncs automatically with […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-24
Claude’s new voice mode isn’t chasing natural. It’s chasing your to-do list.
Anthropic wants you to talk to Claude, and then watch it act. On Thursday it upgraded Claude’s voice mode to run on its most capable models, Opus and Sonnet, the company announced. Voice mode launched last year, and until now it ran only on Haiku, Anthropic’s fastest but shallowest model. That was fine for quick […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-24
Patreon cut 20% of its staff. Its CEO insists AI isn’t replacing them.
Patreon is cutting a fifth of its staff. Its founder wants you to know it is not because of AI. On Thursday the creator-payments company laid off 93 people, about 20% of its workforce, as 404 Media first reported. Chief executive Jack Conte called the day “painful” and took the blame himself. “The people at […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-24
Meta wins dismissal of WhatsApp privacy suit as judge questions whistleblower detail
A federal judge has dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that Meta can read WhatsApp messages despite its end-to-end encryption promises, ruling that the complaint lacked sufficient detail about the basis for its whistleblower claims. The suit, filed in January by plaintiffs from Australia, Brazil, India, Mexico, and South Africa, accused Meta and WhatsApp of […]<br /> This s [...]
2026-07-24
Microsoft is rewiring itself for the AI era, on offence and defence
Microsoft is remaking its own stack for the AI era, on both offence and defence. This week it moved on two fronts. It began pulling OpenAI’s models out of its most-used apps to cut costs. And it set a date to kill the text-message login, blaming a wave of AI-powered phishing. The two announcements look […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
