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Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.8 this week, and Artificial Analysis reports that it narrowly tops the independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 61.4, compared with 60.2 for GPT-5.5 (xhigh). In Anthropic’s announcement for the model, Opus 4.8 looks mostly like an incremental upgrade over 4.7, but the company noted that its heavily-promoted Mythos model would…

A recent video from a popular software developer–based content creator pokes fun at the at times unreliable nature of AI coding agents. At the beginning of the clip, a screen shows a blue circle with the text “coding then.” She wants it green, opens the file, edits one line, and it turns green. Then later,…

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During the 2018 to 2020 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the U.S. was the largest single-country donor to the response, investing over $516 million in various mitigation measures. Similarly, in the 2014 to 2015 outbreak in West Africa, the U.S. government allocated approximately $2.4 billion to the response.  So far,…

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San Francisco-based OpenAI is launching Rosalind Biodefense, a program that sponsors vetted outside developers’ access to GPT-Rosalind, its gated life-sciences model, so they can build pandemic-preparedness and biosecurity tools. Alongside it, the company is opening GPT-Rosalind itself to select U.S. government and allied partners running public-health and biodefense missions...

On Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast in February, Elon Musk said that within 30 to 36 months space would be “by far the cheapest” place to run AI. Pressed on whether that was really true, he doubled down. “It’s not even close,” he said. Patel opened the podcast as a skeptic. Only 10 to 15% of a…

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