Anthropic on Friday announced its latest artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 5, which it said is its best-performing and most cost-effective offering across a number of industry benchmarks. Opus 5 outperforms the last model that Anthropic released, Claude Fable 5, on coding and knowledge work evaluations, and the company said it’s “designed to be used…
Ahead this weekend? Dreamy destinations in Scotland, the Berkshires, Menorca, Italy, and more—and inspiration for displaying summer keepsakes from your travels. Read on: Above: Mentally, we’re here: at Cantina, a restaurant in a former 18th-century naval hospital on Illa del Rei, Menorca. Bonus? It’s just next door to Hauser & Wirth and lush gardens by…
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Alphabet (GOOG +0.24%) (GOOGL +0.58%) delivered a solid second-quarter earnings report on Wednesday. Cloud revenue was up by 82% year over year, and the Gemini app reached 950 million monthly active users. Some investors were spooked when Google’s parent company raised its capital expenditures guidance, implying that it will spend up to $205 billion this…
When it comes to AI providing mental health guidance, the hidden and critical role of harness engineering needs to be acknowledged. getty In today’s column, I examine the hidden significance of harness engineering, which refers to the system scaffolding and technological accommodations needed to ensure that generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are accessible,…
Rings of Power (Andrew Richardson) Credit: Ben Rothstein/Prime Do you know why a sword floats and a stone cannot? Neither do I! This is Anarion, a new character in Rings Of Power Season 3. He’s Elendil’s younger son and Isildur’s brother, which is funny because A) I don’t recall ever hearing about him in the…
Investigators are focused on fresh produce as the potential cause of a spike in cyclospora infections in parts of the U.S., but what about swimming pools, splash pads and water parks? The short answer is that it’s possible to contract various different microscopic, diarrhea-causing parasites from water activities, including pools and splash pads, but cyclospora…
Good morning, Nina Lindholm here with the Europe Wire from the London newsroom. Many Europeans have either started their summer vacations or are about to do so in August. Spain is the top destination among holidaymakers from the UK, and that’s also where this Friday Wire focuses today. First up, we look at Nazca Capital’s…
Hi! How is your Thanksgiving planning going? We’ve covered a lot so far. Please click here if you are playing catch-up. Yesterday we covered some recipes you can make ahead to make Thanksgiving Day easier, but you can also do some of your prep ahead of time, too. One of our long-time friends of the…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Did you know that our White Coat Investors Facebook Group has more than 99,000 members? Or that the White Coat Investor group on Reddit has more than 80,000? It’s because so many doctors and other high earners need a place where they can get social, ask and answer questions from their colleagues, and…