The latest milestone, a recorded 2,318 infections, makes 2026 the worst year for measles in the US since 1991 The US has officially surpassed last year’s record number of measles infections, marking the highest case count since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. New figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Friday show the country has recorded 2,318 measles cases in 2026, overtaking the 2,289 cases reported during all of 2025 – with five months still remaining in the year. The country crossed the 2,000-case threshold last month before climbing even higher in July. Continue reading...
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On Friday, Anthropic launched Opus 5, the latest iteration of its heavyweight model. Arriving just two months after Opus 4.8 The post Opus 5 costs a third of the price — and that’s actually the problem appeared first on The New Stack .
Exclusive: Andy Burnham thought to be considering waiving stricter right to remain rules for people already working in the sector Hundreds of thousands of care workers could be exempted from the home secretary’s plans to toughen up the immigration system under proposals being considered by Andy Burnham as he looks for ways to relieve pressure on the social care sector. The prime minister will give a speech next week spelling out his determination to start creating a National Care Service before the next general election as he looks to accelerate the process set up by his predecessor, Keir Starmer. Continue reading...
Anthropic's new flagship model Claude Opus 5 posts top scores in coding and knowledge work at half of Fable 5's token rates. On ARC-AGI-3, a benchmark for novel problem-solving, Opus 5 hits 30.2 percent, nearly four times higher than GPT-5.6 Sol. The article Anthropic claims its new Claude Opus 5 delivers near-Fable 5 performance at half the token price appeared first on The Decoder .
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used his first post on X to share a public letter backing frontier open-weight models. Signed The post Jensen Huang made his first X post. He used it to lobby Washington about open-weight AI. appeared first on The New Stack .
The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.
By doing in-depth testing, we found nearly 70% of BGP paths experience ORIGIN attribute rewrites by transit providers seeking traffic advantages. We examine the global impact of this practice and argue for deprecating ORIGIN in route selection.
Docker brought together enterprise security leaders to tackle agentic AI's biggest challenge: how to govern AI agents without slowing developers down. Here's what they said.
Anthropic launched Opus 5 on Friday, the latest version of what used to be the company’s flagship model (before the The post Anthropic’s Opus 5 is almost Fable 5 appeared first on The New Stack .
AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.
The best Stratechery content from the week of July 20, 2026 including Chinese models and frontier futures, what happened to Hugging Face, and the NBA and its second apron bet.
Claude Opus 5, Anthropic’s newest Opus model, is now available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for complex, long-running coding tasks that require careful reasoning, effective tool use, and reliable… The post Claude Opus 5 is now available in GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Microsoft, along with Meta, Nvidia, and more than 20 other companies, is pushing for open-weight AI models in an open letter. The strategic logic is simple: the more models running on Azure, the less Microsoft depends on expensive OpenAI and Anthropic models. The company is also swapping external models in products like Copilot for its in-house MAI family, which performs significantly worse in independent benchmarks. The article Microsoft's open-weight AI push is so obviously an Azure play it hurts appeared first on The Decoder .
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
Tens of thousands hopped onto cars and boats to escape southwestern France's wildfires. In the Madrid region, authorities declared a national emergency as at least two fires merged.