Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as it progresses.

In a blog post, Meta says this update marks its “next step toward personal superintelligence,” something CEO Mark Zuckerberg has touted as the future of AI. Meta is powering the update with its newly released Muse Spark 1.1 model, which the company says will allow its chatbot to go beyond its current capabilities of answering questi …

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Anthropic’s latest model offers top-tier performance at a much cheaper cost.

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Weeks after Anthropic’s latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5.

The company said in a release that Opus 5 “comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains” and is much better at complex coding tasks. (Fable 5 is the public-facing Mythos-class model that drew the government’s ire, was taken offline for a few weeks along with Mythos 5, and then brought back with even stronger cyber safeguards than before.)

The Fable 5 concerns – and the ensuing weeks of negotiations between …

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The post-apocalyptic tale takes place after the events of The Legend of Korra.

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Don’t just jump straight into a pool with your phone, you savage.

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The Anbernic RG SP has pretty much everything you want from a modern take on the Game Boy Advance SP.

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Let’s be honest we mostly wrote about this because we think it’s really cute.

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