On benchmarks, Opus 4.8 is a step up rather than a leap. It scores 88.6% on SWE-bench Verified (vs. 87.6% for Opus 4.7), 69.2% on the harder SWE-bench Pro (vs. 64.3%), and 74.6% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 ...

Federal prosecutors have charged a Google software engineer with making roughly $1.2 million by using insider information to bet on Polymarket. The software engineer allegedly accessed confidential ...

It’s been three-and-a-half years since generative AI exploded onto the scene. In this past year, progress has continued its relentless pace: Vibe coding took off, companies embraced agentic workflows, ...

The Trump administration’s plan to use nearly $1.8 billion to pay people who say they were wrongly investigated or prosecuted would constitute an unprecedented use of public funds, raising questions ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Many senators had grown frustrated over Trump’s decision to endorse candidates running against longtime Republican ...

The fund has drawn backlash from critics who said it was a scheme to reward President Trump’s political allies with public benefits. By Tyler Pager Maggie Haberman Alan Feuer Devlin Barrett and Annie ...

A software engineer at Google unlawfully used confidential company information to make a series of bets that won him about $1.2 million on the online prediction market Polymarket, the Justice ...

Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance. By Mike Isaac and Cade ...

Despite it being over a year since the release of the Garmin Fenix 8, the older Epix and Epix Pro remain two of the best alternatives. The brand consolidated its lineup considerably with the Fenix 8 ...

A federal judge will review the Trump administration's nearly $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" after a group of former federal judges questioned its legitimacy. The fund was established ...