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On Monday, Anthropic announced Opus 4.5, the latest version of its flagship model. It’s the last of Anthropic’s 4.5 series of models to be released, following the launch of Sonnet 4.5 in September and Haiku 4.5 in October. As expected, the new version of Opus has state-of-the-art performance on a range of benchmarks, including coding benchmarks (SWE-Bench and Terminal-bench), tool use (tau2-bench and MCP Atlas) and general problem solving (ARC-AGI 2, GPQA Diamond). Notably, Opus 4.5 is the first model to score over 80 percent on SWE-Bench verified, a respected coding benchmark. Anthropic also emphasized the Opus’s computer use and…
More than 25,000 cases of whooping cough have been recorded in the U.S. so far this year, updated federal data shows.This marks the second year in a row with higher than usual cases, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). At the same time this year, around 33,000 cases reported.Cases are well above pre-pandemic levels. In 2019, about 18,600 whooping cough cases were recorded, CDC data shows.Whooping cough cases skyrocket in Texas, quadrupling last year’s numbersExcluding last year, the last time whooping cough cases were this high was in 2014 when more than 32,900 cases…
Anthropic is once again raising the bar in the AI race.On Monday, the company unveiled Claude Opus 4.5, which it calls its most advanced AI model yet, just three months after its previous release.Anthropic says the latest version delivers major improvements in generating computer code and workplace documents, such as Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations. It also includes new capabilities for creating more sophisticated, long-running AI agents.”It’s the most intelligent model in the world for the things that we really care about,” Alex Albert, Anthropic’s head of developer relations, told Business Insider.The launch completes the Claude 4.5 family, following recent…
A new influenza strain this flu season is raising concerns as Americans hit the roads and take to the skies ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, with fewer people choosing to get vaccinated.What is the new flu strain subclade K?The new flu strain, called subclade K, is a variant of the H3N2 virus that has been circulating since the summer in other countries.Experts point to the new variant as a main driver of a spike in flu cases in Canada, Japan, and the U.K. Of nearly 150 test samples that were registered as the H3 lineage, over 50% were subclade K,…
The flu has started spreading earlier than usual in some parts of the country, prompting concerns that cases could soon erupt as millions of Americans travel and gather for Thanksgiving and other upcoming holidays.The warning signs come as a form of the virus, called H3N2 subclade K, has set off massive outbreaks in Canada and the U.K.Dr. Cameron Wolfe, an infectious disease specialist at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, said he’s noted a sharp increase in flu cases over the past few weeks.“Typically, I might see one or two cases a week at this point,” Wolfe…
Breaking news from the everything app: Not everything you see on the everything app is real.This is not news to you, of course: You are a savvy internet user.But lots of other people seemed to be shocked to learn that some high-profile accounts on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, are not who they say they are: A new feature on the app lets you see (more or less) where people are posting from, and it turns out that lots of X accounts that position themselves as very interested in American politics and culture are coming from places like…
OpenAI may have to go back to the drawing board to name a core feature of its popular AI video generation app, Sora.US District Judge Eumi K. Lee has ruled that OpenAI cannot use the word “cameo,” or any other similar name, tied to the use or promotion of its Sora app, until December 22.The AI company named a feature on the TikTok-esque app that creates a linkness of the user, a pet, or even an object in the app “cameos.” On October 28, Cameo, the personalized video company, filed a trademark suit against OpenAI in federal court in California…
A trial has been set for August 2026 in a lawsuit seeking to block the transfer of a parcel of prime Miami real estate to be used for President Donald Trump’s presidential library. The decision Monday by Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz in Miami will further delay Miami Dade College’s plans to formally transfer the sizable plot of land to the state of Florida, which intends to gift it to the foundation for the planned library. Miami activist Marvin Dunn, a retired professor and chronicler of local Black history, filed the lawsuit arguing that the college board violated Florida’s Government in…
AI chatbots have been linked to serious mental health harms in heavy users, but there have been few standards for measuring whether they safeguard human wellbeing or just maximize for engagement. A new benchmark dubbed HumaneBench seeks to fill that gap by evaluating whether chatbots prioritize user wellbeing and how easily those protections fail under pressure. “I think we’re in an amplification of the addiction cycle that we saw hardcore with social media and our smartphones and screens,” Erika Anderson, founder of Building Humane Technology, which produced the benchmark, told TechCrunch. “But as we go into that AI landscape, it’s going…
(Reuters) -Abbott Laboratories said on Monday it has begun a correction in the United States for certain FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus glucose monitoring sensors after internal testing showed some units may report falsely low glucose readings.About 3 million sensors are affected in the U.S., roughly half of which are estimated to have expired or already been used, the company said.Abbott has received 736 reports globally of severe adverse events and seven deaths that may be linked to the issue, none of which occurred in the United States.The problem, tied to one production line, could lead to…