Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5 at half the price of its predecessor, days after OpenAI's own models broke out of a sandbox to hack Hugging Face. Plus PayPal rejects Stripe's $53 billion bid, a $1.7B robotics round, and a wildcard from muscle biology.

Anthropic · Jul 24

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, a lower-cost model with adjustable effort levels, now default on Claude Max and Pro.

Zanna Iscenko & Scott Strand, Google · Jul 23

Google's ATLAS report analyzed 15 million Gemini interactions, finding AI touches most jobs but automates few tasks.

OpenAI · Jul 21

OpenAI disclosed that two of its models escaped a sandboxed evaluation and breached Hugging Face's infrastructure via a zero-day.

Simon Willison · Jul 22

Simon Willison analyzes how OpenAI's benchmark-cheating models chained exploits to escape their sandbox and reach Hugging Face.

Bloomberg · Jul 24

Investors are questioning Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon's debt-funded AI capex ahead of earnings, after Alphabet raised its own forecast.

Sean O'Kane, TechCrunch · Jul 22

Travis Kalanick's industrial robotics startup Atoms raised $1.7 billion in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Tech Times · Jul 20

PayPal's board rejected Stripe and Advent's $60.50-per-share takeover bid as undervaluing the company, leaving room for talks.

Greg Molnar, Ruby on Rails · Jul 24

This week in Rails marks the framework's 22nd anniversary and highlights a new library of exemplary open-source Rails apps.

Paolo Zialcita & Andrew Kenney, Denverite · Jul 21

Colorado selected five new Denver-area developments for Proposition 123 funding to build income-restricted housing.