Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment
Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper "fast mode" tier and a new featur [...]
A hack just showed how Suno’s AI music was really built: millions of scraped songs
For years, musicians have said AI song generators fed on their work without asking. A hacker just opened the black box and showed them exactly how. Leaked source code from Suno, one of the biggest AI [...]
‘A very, very unpleasant surprise’: Meta forced to halt data center water discharges after polluting city's water reclamation system with resistant bacterium — shutdown and cleaning of two water reclamation plants expected to last months
Meta has been named as the source of contamination for a rare metal and drug resistant bacterium that shut down two water reclamation plants. [...]
Intercom, now called Fin, launches an AI agent whose only job is managing another AI agent
The company formerly known as Intercom just did something that no major customer service platform has attempted at scale: it built an AI agent whose sole job is to manage another AI agent.Fin Operator [...]
Architectural patterns for graph-enhanced RAG: Moving beyond vector search in production
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the de facto standard for grounding large language models (LLMs) in private data. The standard architecture — chunking documents, embedding them into [...]
Italy’s Lexroom hits $73M total raised on $50M Series B for civil-law legal AI
Left Lane Capital led the Milan-based startup’s Series B, eight months after its $19m Series A. Lexroom is selling 8,000+ law firms a verified-source legal AI built around six million documents. Mil [...]