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Anthropic drops Claude Opus 5 — near-Fable 5 at half the price

Four days after making Fable permanent in Max plans, Anthropic ships a cheaper, self-checking Opus that beats Fable on most benchmarks. Bang, bang.

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Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite & Flash Cyber — what they actually do

Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite go out to everyone; Flash Cyber is gated to governments and trusted partners. The dual-use door again.

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Nvidia clears $6T on inference demand

The market keeps paying for tokens: data-centre revenue triples year on year as inference eats the grid.

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Grok 5 tops the open leaderboard

xAI's flagship takes the top slot on blind arenas — personality mode is doing real work in the rankings.

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Volk books Sydney title defence

The champ headlines at home — Marvel Stadium, February. Australia gets its biggest fight card ever.

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Claude runs a company for 30 days

Anthropic's agent experiment goes a month unattended — the writeup on what broke and what banked.

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Singapore fast-tracks AI company law

New filing class for AI-operated entities — registration in days, governance rules to match.

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Faceless channels cross 40% of Shorts

Nearly half the top feed is nobody on camera. The face is optional now; the format is the star.

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Local models hit phone-speed video

On-device generation does 720p in real time — the render farm just moved into your pocket.

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Pereira teases move to heavyweight

Chama. The double champ eyes a third belt and nobody's telling him no.

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PH outsourcing rides the AI wave

Manila's BPO giants retool as agent-ops firms — humans supervising fleets instead of answering phones.

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AI film wins first festival prize

A fully generated short takes a real jury award — the argument moves from "can it" to "should it".

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Browser agents get their own web lane

Sites start shipping agent-readable rails beside the human page — the crawl is becoming a conversation.

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