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What's new in Claude Sonnet 5
What's new in Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5 came out this morning . I always head straight for the "what's new" developer docs because they tend to have more actionable information than the official announcement post. Anthropic say of Sonnet 5 that "its performance is close to that of Opus 4.8, but at lower prices". The system card helps explain how they were able to release the model without being blocked by the US government: Sonnet 5 is significantly less capable at cyber tasks than Mythos 5: its safeguards are thus similar to those we apply to Opus 4.7 and Opus 4.8 (models that are more capable than Sonnet 5 but much less capable than Mythos 5). Of note from the "what's new" API changes: Sampling parameters temperature , top_p , top_k are no longer supported. It has a 1 million token context window and 128,000 maximum output tokens. It features "the same set of tools and platform features as Claude Sonnet 4.6" Adaptive thinking is on by default, unless you specify "thinking": {type: "disabled"} . The pricing is the same as Sonnet 4.6: $3/million input, $15/million input, with an introductory discount to $2/$10 until 31st August. But... The model has a new tokenizer, where "The same input text produces approximately 30% more tokens than on Claude Sonnet 4.6." - effectively a 30% price increase. I used my Claude Token Counter tool to try out the new tokenizer. Here are my results for several larger documents: Document Sonnet 4.6 Opus 4.7 Sonnet 5 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (English) 2,356 3,347 1.42x 3,341 1.42x Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Spanish) 3,572 4,753 1.33x 4,747 1.33x Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Chinese, Mandarin Simplified) 3,334 3,366 1.01x 3,360 1.01x sqlite_utils/db.py (4,279 lines of Python) 44,014 56,118 1.28x 56,113 1.27x So the new token is roughly 1.4x times more expensive for English, 1.33x for Spanish, 1.28x for Python code and effectively the same cost for Simplified Mandarin. Here's the pelican . It's
The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds
EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.
New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea
Google’s NotebookLM can sum up your research in a TikTok-style clip
Google's NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, allowing NotebookLM to generate 60-second vertical AI clips based on the sources you upload to the app. The example shared by Google details Australia's unsuccessful war on emus, pairing paper cutout-style AI art of emus with narration. It adds to some of the other ways NotebookLM lets you interact with your research, including by generating AI podcasts, cinematic videos, and visual explainers. Doom scrolling but make it educational 🤓 Introducing Short Video Overviews in Notebo … Read the full story at The Verge.
Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite
Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.
Google's new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet
They may not look as good, but Nano Banana 2 Lite images only take a few seconds to create.
ScarfBench: Benchmarking AI Agents for Enterprise Java Framework Migration
Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.
Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard
Acti is betting the smartphone keyboard is the next home for AI assistants. The startup's new keyboard for iOS and Android works across apps and lets users create custom AI-powered shortcuts using natural language.
How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies
Explore how the Open Source Program Office uses GitHub’s new license compliance product to manage open source dependencies at scale. The post How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Netflix is using an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice in its Willy Wonka reality show
A new teaser trailer confirmed that Wonka's The Golden Ticket will premiere on Netflix on September 23rd, following its Squid Game reality show in the trend of creating real competitions based on fictional torture scenarios. While the sets seen in the trailer are real and not some Glasgow-style AI fakes, the voiceover is AI-generated. Deadline reports that Netflix worked with AI audio company ElevenLabs with consent from Wilder's family, after working on productions re-creating the voice of Michael Caine and Stan Lee. It also continues Netflix's 2021 partnership with the Roald Dahl company, and is separate from the Charlie vs. the Chocolat … Read the full story at The Verge.
Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists
Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.
Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video
shot-scraper video is a new command introduced in today's shot-scraper 1.10 release which accepts a storyboard.yml file defining a routine to run against a web application and uses Playwright to record a video of that routine. I've written before about the importance of having coding agents produce demos of their work; this is my latest attempt at enabling them to do that. Here's an example video created using shot-scraper video , exercising a still in development feature adding the ability to create new tables in Datasette from pasted CSV, TSV or JSON data: That video was created by running this command : shot-scraper video datasette-bulk-insert-storyboard.yml \ --auth datasette-demo-auth.json --mp4 (That --auth JSON file contains a cookie , as described here in the documentation.) Here's the datasette-bulk-insert-storyboard.yml file: output : /tmp/datasette-bulk-insert-demo.webm server : - uv - --directory - /Users/simon/Dropbox/dev/datasette - run - datasette - -p - 6419 - --root - --secret - " 1 " - /tmp/demo.db url : http://127.0.0.1:6419/demo/tasks viewport : width : 1280 height : 720 cursor : true wait_for : ' button[data-table-action="insert-row"] ' javascript : | (() => { let clipboardText = ""; Object.defineProperty(navigator, "clipboard", { configurable: true, get: () => ({ writeText: async (text) => { clipboardText = String(text); }, readText: async () => clipboardText, }), }); })(); scenes : - name : Bulk insert existing table rows do : - pause : 0.8 - click : ' button[data-table-action="insert-row"] ' - wait_for : " #row-edit-dialog[open] " - pause : 0.5 - click : " .row-edit-bulk-insert " - wait_for : " .row-edit-bulk-textarea " - pause : 0.5 - click : " .row-edit-copy-template " - wait_for : " text=Copied " - pause : 0.8 - fill : into : " .row-edit-bulk-textarea " text : | title,owner,status,priority,notes Prepare release video,Ana,doing,1,Recorded with shot-scraper Check pasted CSV import,Ben,review,3,Previewed before inserting Share the branch demo
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Libby will filter out AI content, kind of
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. "AI is the new frontier for us," says Marc DeBevoise, who took over as the new CEO of OverDrive last week. OverDrive is best known for the ebook lending app Libby that is available through tens of thousands of public libraries. Like the rest of the digital publishing industry, it's poised to face massive disruption from a huge wave of AI-generated books. To prepare for the AI onslaught, Libby is now getting ready to introduce AI content controls, allowing readers to select in t … Read the full story at The Verge.
X now offers an MCP server to make its platform easier for AI tools to use
X has launched a hosted MCP server, making it easier for developers to connect AI applications with the company’s API.
Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic
Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.
Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game
Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.
