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Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool — Anthropic is releasing a new frontier AI model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which the company designed to “think” about questions for as long as users want it to.
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| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
Claude 3.7 and Grok-3 are the first “Gen3” models with big gains in handling complex tasks, using 10x more compute than GPT-4-class models, and better reasoning — Note: After publishing this piece, I was contacted by Anthropic who told me that Sonnet 3.7 would not be considered … | Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
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| NBC News: |
Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI — The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond. — WASHINGTON — Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email …
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| CNBC: |
Chegg sues Google, saying AI Overviews hurt its traffic and revenue, as it mulls strategic options, including an acquisition; CHGG drops 20%+ pre-market — Chegg on Monday filed suit in federal district court against Google, claiming that artificial intelligence summaries of search results …
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| Arjun Sha / Beebom: |
Microsoft quietly launched free, ad-supported desktop versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows, with banner and video ads and limited functionality — In Short — Microsoft has quietly introduced a free ad-supported Office that brings access to desktop Word, Excel, and PowerPoint without any subscription.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX seeks to deploy Starlink terminals for the FAA, raising questions about Elon Musk's conflicts of interest and Verizon's $2B FAA contract in 2023 — Elon Musk's SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help accelerate an upgrade … | Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Crypto exchange OKX settles charges with the US DOJ and will pay over $500M in penalties and forfeited fees after facilitating $5B+ in suspicious transactions — An OKX subsidiary said it resolved a U.S. DOJ investigation. — What to know: … OKX, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Epic v. Apple: Phil Schiller says he initially feared Apple's 27% App Store fee posed a compliance risk and could create “antagonistic” developer relations — Apple Fellow Phil Schiller, the executive in charge of leading the App Store, testified in court on Monday …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
The Trump administration fired 130 CISA staff, replaced staff refusing DOGE network access, appointed a DOD CISO whose clearance was suspended in 2021, and more — One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings …
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| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: Apple's $500B+ spending announcement in the US over four years is in line with what one might expect it to spend anyway, given its financials — One big benefit to being the size of Apple AAPL 0.95%increase; green up pointing triangle is the ability to throw around huge numbers while in the normal course of business.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| Brendan Pierson / Reuters: |
DoorDash agrees to pay $16.75M to settle a lawsuit by NY's AG accusing it of pocketing customers' tips for delivery drivers between May 2017 and September 2019 — DoorDash (DASH.O) has agreed to pay $16.75 million to settle a lawsuit by New York's attorney general accusing it of pocketing customers' tips … | Juby Babu / Reuters: |
Zoom reports Q4 revenue up 3.3% YoY to $1.18B, Enterprise revenue up 5.9% YoY to $707M, a $368M net income, up from $298.8M, sales forecast slightly under est. — Zoom Communications (ZM.O) forecast annual revenue below Wall Street estimates on Monday, in a sign of weak demand for its wide range … | Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Kate Bush and 1,000+ other musicians “co-write” a “silent” album to protest the UK's proposal to let AI train on their copyrighted work if they don't opt out — Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK's plans to let AI train on their work without permission
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| Bloomberg: |
Tesla starts rolling out a software update enabling driver-assistance features, similar to Full Self-Driving in the US, for Chinese customers who paid $8,800 — - Carmaker is pushing software update to vehicles in batches — System requires constant supervision, frequent interventions| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
New York's law requiring ISPs to offer $15 or $20/month broadband has inspired Vermont, Massachusetts, and California to guarantee affordable internet access — New York's law requiring Internet service providers to offer broadband for $15 or $20 a month has spurred legislative efforts …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Vimeo CEO Philip Moyer on going back to its roots as a YouTube rival, TikTok, algorithmic video platform incentives, AI video not taking off, and more — AI tools are here to stay, Moyer says, but Vimeo wants to build on ‘authenticity.’ — AI tools are here to stay, Moyer says … Sponsor Posts
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