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View More NewsIn brief Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, scoring 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 against Fable 5’s 24.7%, and 55.8% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 against 42.0%. Cache reads now cost 75% less, cutting typical workload costs by roughly 25% and highly agentic workloads by up to 45%, with base pricing unchanged at $10/$50 per million tokens. Fable 5.1 is not included in Pro plans or standard Team seats, which run it on usage credits; Max and premium Team or Enterprise seats get it included for up to 50% of weekly limits. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1…
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I lived in Reykjavík for a year in 2011, doing fieldwork for my PhD. The best thing about living there—better than the Northern Lights, better than the glaciers and volcanoes, better even than the fact that nobody locks their doors—was the public pools. They’re geothermally heated and open all winter, with ice coating the decks and steam rising off the water like the River Styx with lap lanes. The smell of sulphur rises with the steam. It seeps up from where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is slowly splitting the island in two.The Icelanders don’t put any chemicals in their pools. So…
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In brief Dropbox notified users of unauthorized account access between August 4 and August 21 after attackers reportedly exploited a Lenovo ID authentication issue.…
Ethena Pay offers a 6% dollar savings rate and 5% card cashback, using Avalanche for settlement. Read the full article here
Prediction market platform Kalshi announced action against US House of Representatives candidate Laurie Buckhout and ousted Republican lawmaker George Santos over using insider information…
In brief Bitcoin gained nearly 25% in August, its best August since 2017, closing the month back above its 50-month moving average for the…
This morning, by a vote of 4-3, the Virginia Supreme Court declared the ballot initiative supporting a partisan gerrymander of Virginia’s congressional districts to…
Zcash will roll out quantum-recoverable wallets within a month and reach full post-quantum status within 12 to 18 months, Zcash Open Development Lab founder…
The US CLARITY Act, which aims to provide the US crypto industry with greater regulatory clarity, is set to be voted on by the…
In brief Zcash will roll out quantum-recoverable wallets within a month, targeting enhanced security against future quantum computing threats. The privacy coin plans to…
Barack Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comment during the 2012 election, part of a larger argument that successful entrepreneurs ultimately derived their wealth from…
The U.S. stock market is heating up in a way that suggests speculative mania. It matters to bitcoin as analysts have linked the cryptocurrency’s…
A campaign to require the Swiss National Bank to hold Bitcoin is set to lapse after failing to gather enough signatures to trigger a…
In brief Andreessen Horowitz partner David George argues fears of AI-driven mass unemployment are historically unfounded. George says AI will reorganize labor markets and…