Anthropic's new Sonnet 5 model is better at the tasks that are running up enterprise bills

Anthropic trained its newest Sonnet model to excel at agentic tasks, which have been causing a headache for the company's enterprise customers and power users. [...]

I tested it, and Astell & Kern’s new pocketable smartphone DAC is a clear winner for detail, marred just slightly by bantamweight bass

Astell & Kern realises we can’t all afford one of its lovely digital audio players. So it’s trying to bring a little of the A&K magic to your humble smartphone… [...]

Morgan Stanley cut its riskiest reconciliation job in half — by making its agents less autonomous

Most enterprise AI deployments so far have focused on coding assistants and customer service bots. Morgan Stanley has deployed agents in one of banking's most accuracy-critical, deadline-driven w [...]

WhatsApp Lets You Reserve a Username, Making Your Phone Number More Private

Once WhatsApp's username feature is launched, you'll be able to protect the privacy of your phone number for new contacts. [...]

Samsung Teaser Hints at How It's (Literally) Reshaping Its Foldable Phones

The company is taking a slightly different approach to previewing its highly anticipated foldables. Here's what the cryptic videos could mean. [...]

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Wednesday, July 1

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for July 1. [...]

I expected to hate Enola Holmes 3, but the new Netflix movie and Millie Bobby Brown are incredibly entertaining — despite some laughable flaws

Netflix's Sherlock spinoff is three for three in three-star movies. But there's still a looming problem with Enola Holmes 3 that I cannot shake. [...]

Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak

After a two-week ban, the US government is letting Anthropic ship Fable 5 globally again. Amazon researchers had found a jailbreak, but Anthropic says even much smaller models like Claude Haiku 4.5 co [...]

Visa, Mastercard and 140 firms launch Open USD, a stablecoin built to undercut Circle

Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new dollar-pegged stablecoin on Tuesday called Open USD. The venture, run [...]