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Anthropic just launched Claude Opus 4.8. Also, there two Claude Code updates shipped with it. Dynamic workflows run many subagents in parallel. Fast mode now supports Opus 4.8 at a lower price. Both are research previews. What Dynamic Workflows Actually Are A dynamic workflow is a JavaScript script that orchestrates subagents at scale. Claude writes […]
Claude’s parent company’s $65bn in latest funding round underscores vast sums of money still flowing into industryAnthropic, the AI firm behind the Claude chatbot, announced on Thursday it had raised $65bn in funding to value the company at $965bn post-money. The move makes Anthropic the world’s most valuable AI startup, eclipsing its competitor OpenAI.The deal
Dr Susan Oman on a campaign that is designed to raise public awareness of AIYour editorial on Pope Leo XIV’s call to centre human dignity in AI debate makes an important argument (The Guardian view on the Pope and Claude: Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI is right to put humanity first, 25 May). While governments,
As part of a growing anti-tech movement, startup dumb.co is pushing flip phones as a way for young people to find ‘social and spiritual freedom’“They aren’t as dumb as they look,” our facilitator said, referring to the dark gray flip phone in his hand. He just as easily could have been talking about us, the
Growing fleet of datacentres last year used 22% of the country’s electricityEnergy demand by datacentres in Ireland has added hundreds of euros to household electricity bills in a pattern that could be replicated across Europe, according to a new report.The centres have “drained” €715m (£620m) from the Irish economy and increased household bills by a
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Finnish-US startup has sold 5.5m rings worldwide since it was founded in 2013 and is valued at $11bnStylish Finnish-American smart ring company Oura may be the darling of wearables, adorning the fingers of celebrities and sportspeople, but it is not resting on its laurels as it heads towards an IPO later this year. This week
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US DoJ alleges software engineer Michele Spagnuolo, 36, earned $1.2m betting on Google’s most-searched listThe US justice department has charged a Google software engineer with using insider information to rig bets tied to Google’s most-searched list on prediction market Polymarket, earning $1.2m in profits, according to a complaint unsealed on Wednesday.Michele Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old Italian
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In this competitive market, gen Z has started to turn to untraditional ways to land a job – including dating appsSibusisiwe Khupe, 26, entered the job market once again in September after a wave of unexpected layoffs at London marketing agency Wieden+Kennedy.She knew landing her next full-time role was not going to be easy. Young
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Perplexity AI’s research team reimplemented their Unigram tokenizer from scratch in Rust and open-sourced the code in pplx-garden, their inference technology repository. At production input lengths, the new encoder cuts p50 latency by roughly 5x versus the Hugging Face tokenizers crate, ~2x versus SentencePiece (C++), and ~1.5x versus IREE’s tokenizer (C), with zero steady-state heap
In this tutorial, we build a complete pgvector playground inside Google Colab and explore how PostgreSQL can work as a powerful vector database for modern AI applications. We start by installing PostgreSQL, compiling the pgvector extension, connecting through Psycopg, and registering vector types for smooth Python integration. Then, we create embeddings with SentenceTransformers, store them
