🤖 Anthropic drops Claude Haiku 4.5 - small, fast, surprisingly punchy
Cheaper than Sonnet, quicker than you’d expect, and built for large-scale rollouts. Anthropic says Haiku 4.5 delivers mid-tier performance at a fraction of the cost-which is the point.
It slots neatly into agent stacks-Sonnet for planning, Haiku sub-agents for rapid execution-so yes, this is an ops story as much as a benchmarks one.
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📈 Anthropic’s revenue target gets wild - eyeing $20B-$26B run rate
Internal targets point to a near-tripling in annualized revenue next year, driven by enterprise demand and Claude Code momentum. Big energy, bigger spreadsheets.
The company says it’s already nearing a $7B run rate, setting up a direct joust with OpenAI’s growth narrative… or so it seems.
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🍎 Apple unveils M5 - 4x AI GPU compute over M4
Neural Accelerators in every GPU core, a faster Neural Engine, and higher memory bandwidth-the spec sheet reads like a late-night infomercial, but the numbers are loud.
The targets are clear: on-device AI, heavier local models, and fewer excuses for laggy genAI on Macs and iPads. Honestly, tidy.
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🏛️ The Fed weighs in - Waller’s AI take is… pragmatic
Governor Waller frames AI as disruptive yet net positive, with early job impacts appearing in support roles and hiring patterns shifting rather than snapping.
He leans pro-experimentation inside the Fed, nodding to agentic AI and coding assistants-cautious optimism with a calculator, basically.
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🧪 10-minute cancer check - USC’s RED model hunts the rare stuff
A new AI method flags ultra-rare cells in liquid biopsies without humans in the loop, cutting review load by orders of magnitude. Sounds magical; is math.
Early tests found the planted cancer cells with striking accuracy. If this holds up, diagnostics workflows get a serious remap.
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💸 OpenAI maps a 5-year path to fund a trillion-dollar build
New revenue lines, debt, more fundraising-the financing chessboard is being set to back those colossal compute pledges. Ambition, meet amortization.
It’s the money story behind model scale-and, frankly, behind everyone else’s risk models too.
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🔧 Meta goes Arm - recommendations pivot to Arm-based servers
Meta is partnering with Arm to power ranking across Facebook and Instagram, plus fresh data-center investment to feed the beast. Energy efficiency is the quiet headline.
Also notable: software-stack tweaks to smooth Arm adoption in AI infra-less glamorous than a new model, more consequential than it sounds.
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💬 Mark Cuban dunks on ChatGPT’s erotica plan
Cuban says the move will backfire, doubting age-gating and warning parents won’t buy it. Blunt, a tad theatrical, but the concern is real.
The policy shift is framed as adult-users-only with new safeguards, yet the debate is sprinting ahead of the rollout. Awkward timing, or perfect stress test.
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