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On Thursday, Anthropic released the latest version of Opus — its most advanced model and a particularly important model for Claude Code. Opus 4.5 was only released last November, and with 4.6, the company has sought to broaden its model’s capabilities and appeal, allowing for a greater variety of uses and customers. Perhaps the most notable addition to the newest version of Opus is the inclusion of what the company calls “agent teams” — teams of agents that can split larger tasks into segmented jobs. “Instead of one agent working through tasks sequentially, you can split the work across multiple…
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — History professor Gabor S. Boritt, a Hungarian immigrant to the United States who wrote widely about the Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln, has died. He was 86. Boritt had been a professor at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania for many years, founding the Civil War Institute and helping establish the $50,000 Lincoln Prize for scholarship related to the Civil War. He died Monday in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, according to his son.Boritt was born in Budapest in 1940 and survived World War II, although relatives were killed in the Auschwitz Nazi death camp. He was sent to an…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is making an immediate change in an effort to clarify labels on food packaging.FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary spoke exclusively with “Good Morning America” about updating guidelines for the “no artificial color” labels on food packaging, as part of an effort to cut back on Americans’ consumption of artificially dyed foods.For the first time, the label will now exempt foods dyed with natural sources like beets or watermelon juice from being designated as artificial colors.ABC News – PHOTO: FDA commissioner Dr. Marty Makary spoke exclusively to “Good Morning America” about new food dye labeling guidelines.Products…
Meta is testing a standalone Vibes app, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Launched last September, Vibes lets you create and share short-form AI-generated videos and access a dedicated feed that displays AI videos from others. Think TikTok or Instagram Reels, but every single video you come across is AI-generated. Until now, the feed has lived in the Meta AI app. By making Vibes available outside of the Meta AI app, the company is positioning it as a more direct competitor to Sora, OpenAI’s AI-generated video and social app that launched shortly after Vibes. “Following the strong early traction…
By Maggie FickLONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk CEO Mike Doustdar was in a meeting with investors on Thursday discussing the company’s tough recent outlook when one interrupted him with shock news: U.S. telehealth firm Hims and Hers Health was launching a cut-price version of Novo’s blockbuster Wegovy weight loss pill.Novo Nordisk’s stock plunged some 8% on the news, first reported by Reuters, with fears that the $49 compounded pill – rising to $99 but some $100 below Novo’s price – would scupper the Danish firm’s pivot into the cash-pay consumer market.Put on the spot, Doustdar told analysts in…
NEW YORK (AP) — During the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts worried that disruptions to cancer diagnosis and treatment would cost lives. A new study suggests they were right.The federally funded study published Thursday by the medical journal JAMA Oncology is being called the first to assess the effects of pandemic-related disruptions on the short-term survival of cancer patients.Researchers found that people diagnosed with cancer in 2020 and 2021 had worse short-term survival than those diagnosed between 2015 and 2019. That was true across a range of cancers, and whether they were diagnosed at a late or early…
The Boar’s Head deli meat plant tied to a deadly food-poisoning outbreak in 2024 is back in business, company officials said.The Jarratt, Virginia, site resumed limited operations on Monday, nearly 17 months after it was shut down following the listeria outbreak that killed 10 people and sickened dozens.Boar’s Head, a 120-year-old company based in Sarasota, Florida, permanently stopped making liverwurst and recalled 7 million pounds (more than 3 million kilograms) of deli products in the wake of the illnesses.But Natalie Dyenson, the company’s chief food safety officer, told The Associated Press that the facility has been completely revamped and tested…
An AI lab called Fundamental emerged from stealth on Thursday, offering a new foundation model to solve an old problem: how to draw insights from the huge quantities of structured data produced by enterprises. By combining the old systems of predictive AI with more contemporary tools, the company believes it can reshape how large enterprises analyze their data. “While LLMs have been great at working with unstructured data, like text, audio, video, and code, they don’t work well with structured data like tables,” CEO Jeremy Fraenkel told TechCrunch. “With our model Nexus, we have built the best foundation model to…
It’s an annual ritual in Michigan: The state proclaiming how much cash the lottery is pouring into schools. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently announced that for the seventh year in a row, the lottery contributed more than $1 billion to the School Aid Fund.But buying a $1 scratch-off doesn’t mean you’ve just pumped $1 into school coffers. In fact, Michigan schools get about a fourth of that — or less, depending how you count it. For every dollar spent on a lottery ticket, 63 cents goes toward prizes. Nine cents toward lottery sales commissions and 3 cents for operations and administration…
ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski says voice is becoming the next major interface for AI – the way people will increasingly interact with machines as models move beyond text and screens. Speaking at Web Summit in Doha, Staniszewski told TechCrunch voice models like those developed by ElevenLabs have recently moved beyond simply mimicking human speech — including emotion and intonation – to working in tandem with the reasoning capabilities of large language models. The result, he argued, is a shift in how people interact with technology. In the years ahead, he said, “hopefully all our phones will go back…