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Tech Competition is Helping Americans. Here's How.
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Tuesday • September 1, 2026
Anthropic Introduces Claude: Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1
They’re the World’s Most Advanced Models for Coding and Knowledge Work
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 are the same model, but with different levels of safeguards. Fable 5.1 is generally available, while Mythos 5.1 is available only through our trusted access programs; its safeguards are specifically designed to support work in cybersecurity and the life sciences. Alongside its increased capabilities, Fable 5.1 takes important steps towards addressing the feedback we’ve received from customers on price, data retention, and safeguards.
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Monday • August 31, 2026
OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads business hits $1 billion run rate as Europe gets self-serve access
OpenAI’s Ads Business is Now Running at a $1 Billion Annualised Run Rate, Just Six Months After Launch
“We’re at the beginning of a new chapter for advertising, with AI creating entirely new ways for businesses and people to discover one another,” said Dave Dugan, vp of global ad solutions. “Reaching $1 billion in ARR in under 200 days shows the scale of the opportunity ahead.” The milestone comes as OpenAI pushes into Europe with the next stage of its rollout of ads in the ChatGPT app.
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Wednesday • August 26, 2026
Nvidia forecasts 70% sales growth next year, signals AI spending boom has years left to run
Third-Quarter Revenue Forecast is $108 Billion, Plus or Minus 2%, Versus $104.19 Billion Estimate
Nvidia, on Wednesday forecast a 70% jump in revenue next fiscal year, underscoring unabated demand for AI computing, while warning that shortages of memory components would continue to curb how quickly it can expand.
The chip company’s shares rose nearly 5% in extended trading, after having dipped over 1% initially. “AI has reached its inflection point. It’s doing useful work. Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue,” Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang said. -
Monday • August 3, 2026
Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use
Chinese E-Commerce and Cloud Giant Alibaba’s Famed Qwen Team of AI Researchers Last Night Unveiled Qwen3.8-Max
If the company’s published benchmarks hold up under broader independent testing, Qwen3.8-Max doesn’t merely compete with today’s leading proprietary models — it surpasses several of them on some key benchmarks in agentic computing.
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Thursday • July 30, 2026
The Million-Dollar Talent Wars for 20-Something Math Geniuses
Flush with Cash, Wall Street and Silicon Valley are Vying to Hire the Same Tiny Pool of Genius Graduates
There has never been a better time to be a math nerd. New college graduates and Ph.D.s are now securing million-dollar pay deals from elite trading firms seeking to secure the best and brightest amid fierce competition from artificial-intelligence companies.
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Thursday • July 30, 2026
AI price wars: OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% as model competition shifts toward cost
OpenAI is Sharply Reducing the Prices of Two Models
The cuts place Luna much closer to the lowest-cost commercial models in the market and arrive just a few days after Anthropic released its highly performant Claude Opus 5 at the same price as Opus 4.8, and Google introduced Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, two rival models built around lower inference costs, faster execution and more efficient agent workloads.
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