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Anthropic says its new Claude Fable 5.1 will cut typical token-billed costs by about 25%, with agent-heavy workflows seeing up to roughly 45% savings, while a stricter sibling, Claude Mythos 5.1, arrives under trusted access for cybersecurity and life sciences work (Anthropic). The company is also introducing Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS), a system that keeps […]
On September 7, 2026, The Hindu BusinessLine reported a lab-style market where large language models played buyer and seller, echoing Vernon Smith’s 1962 double auction experiment at Purdue University. The study, titled “Competitive market behaviour of LLMs,” set 11 AI buyers and 11 AI sellers with private reservation prices and ran a continuous order book […]
Twenty University of Tennessee student teams spent a 10-week sprint building companies at the 121 Tech Hub in Knoxville’s Old City. According to the Haslam College of Business “In The News” page, which cites coverage by Teknovation.biz, the program — UT Summer Studio — expanded to 20 teams in its third year and introduced separate […]
On September 6, 2026, a Hacker News thread titled “AI, Tools and Transformation” spurred a sharp split over power and productivity in the age of large models. The discussion, sparked by a link to analyst Benedict Evans’s post on ben-evans.com, turned into a Hacker News AI debate about whether new tools flatten software and social […]
“The app people use to manage AI agents for work.” That’s how Paperclip sells itself, and the pitch lands because it reframes the problem. Instead of yet another chat box, it proposes an AI agent org chart with goals, roles, and budgets—familiar controls for managers who care about outcomes more than prompts. What an AI […]
September 24, 2026, the Oregon State Bar opens its fall calendar with “AI in Alternative Dispute Resolution: Practical Tools, Ethical Considerations, and Emerging Risks,” a webcast offering 3 General credits and 1.5 Ethics credits. According to the Oregon State Bar CLE page, it’s the first in a run of AI-themed listings stretching into November on […]
127 points and 57 comments drove a split view on AI’s next act on Hacker News. The thread, sparked by Ben Evans’ essay, turned into a blunt question: will new tools flatten power or reinforce it? That frame makes the Hacker News AI debate a useful read on what builders and founders feel under their […]
In 2025, the generative AI market reached $53.7 billion, and OpenAI held 23.6% share, according to Global Market Insights. That momentum will hit classrooms next. The sales pitch will be slick, the promises big. Districts will see the familiar pattern of Big Tech in schools: integrate now, figure it out later. What the market data […]
On September 5, 2026, BBC News published a video fact-check examining a US official’s claim that data centres “don’t use water.” The segment, featured on the BBC Technology page, drops into a live argument that now stretches from Washington to Scotland: how to weigh data centre water use against the need for more digital infrastructure. […]
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