Claude’s Sonnet 5 is built to do more on its own and cost you less

Claude Sonnet 5 narrows the gap with Anthropic's flagship Opus 4.8, scoring close on key benchmarks while costing significantly less per token.
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I asked Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini to build Chrome ad-blockers — YouTube exposed all their worst instincts

Turns out "build me an ad-blocker" is a personality test for AI ...

Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

By registering the LongCat-2.0 repository under the open-source MIT License, Meituan positions the architecture with maximum ...
Tech Times

DeepSeek Releases DSpark: Speculative Decoding Makes V4 Up to 85 Percent Faster

DeepSeek speculative decoding framework DSpark went live June 27 on V4-Flash and V4-Pro, reporting up to 85 percent faster ...

Cysic Announces Open Source FPGA Code to Enable Private Payments, Verifiable AI and Instant Gaming on Ethereum L2s

San Francisco, CA, June 26th, 2026, ChainwireFirst public release of a complete FPGA implementation for zero‑knowledge ...

New Open-Source FPGA Code is Poised to Bring Private Payments, Verifiable AI, and Instant Gaming to Ethereum Layer 2s

San Francisco, CA - First public release of a complete FPGA implementation for zero-knowledge proofs could finally make ZK-rollups cheap enough for consumer-scale applications. A team of hardware and ...
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...

Christian mobile carrier blocks pornography at network level

A newly launched wireless carrier targeting Christian consumers has drawn widespread attention for what cybersecurity experts ...
Wall Street Journal

Hegseth Blocks Eight Navy Senior Officer Promotions

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has blocked the promotion of eight Navy captains to be one-star admirals, including two female and two Black officers, according to current and former U.S. officials. At ...
Game Rant

All Kick the Lucky Block Codes in Fortnite

Nathan Round, part of GameRant's talented Game Guides Team, is the leading voice for Call of Duty guides. From meta loadouts to the best weapons for each season, he takes pride in crafting top-notch ...