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ANTHROPIC RELEASES CLAUDE OPUS 4.7, NARROWLY RETAKING LEAD FOR MOST
POWERFUL GENERALLY AVAILABLE LLM (5 MINUTE READ) [5]

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7. The model scores higher on
key benchmarks than its direct rivals in some categories. It is a
specialized powerhouse optimized for reliability and long-horizon
autonomy. The model is available across all major cloud platforms,
with API pricing at $5/$25 per million tokens.

MACBOOK NEO SELLS OUT FOR APRIL AS DEMAND FOR APPLE'S $599 LAPTOP
OUTPACES SUPPLY (2 MINUTE READ) [6]

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them. Inventory quickly sold out after launch, and Apple hasn't caught
up with demand. Some Apple retail store locations may still have units available.

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OPENAI STARTS OFFERING A BIOLOGY-TUNED LLM (2 MINUTE READ) [7]

GPT-Rosalind is a large language model developed by OpenAI
specifically trained on common biology workflows. It is able to access
major public databases of biological information. The model can
suggest likely biological pathways and potential drug targets. It has
been tuned to be more skeptical so it can tell users when something is
a bad drug target. Access to the model is limited to selected US-based
entities via OpenAI's trusted access deployment structure.

PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE, A HOT ROBOTICS STARTUP, SAYS ITS NEW ROBOT
BRAIN CAN FIGURE OUT TASKS IT WAS NEVER TAUGHT (7 MINUTE READ) [8]

Physical Intelligence, a San Francisco-based robotics startup, has
published new research showing that its latest model can direct robots
to perform tasks they were never explicitly trained on. The new model,
called *0.7, is an early but meaningful step towards a
general-purpose robot brain. The model still can't execute complex
multi-step tasks autonomously from a single high-level command, but it
can be verbally coached to perform new tasks without additional data
collection or model retraining. It is still in a research phase and
not yet ready to be deployed as a product.

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MISCELLANEOUS

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The industry is rapidly moving from deterministic engineering to
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generated by stochastic systems, reviewed under time pressure against
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THE CLIP ECONOMY (11 MINUTE READ) [14]

Clips - snippets of long-form content - have taken over the entire
media ecosystem. TBPN, a podcast recently purchased by OpenAI for $200
million, only draws in around 7,000 views per episode. However, the
average TBPN clip receives around 257,000 views. TBPN bakes ads
directly into its clips, which helped it generate $5 million in
revenue last year. Clips are now the main product for a lot of media,
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