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AMD is making a significant bet on spatial intelligence, agreeing to acquire World Labs for eight point two billion dollars. The deal brings founder Fei-Fei Li into AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, signaling that the chipmaker wants more than silicon — it wants the research vision to go with it.
On the financial rails side, Coinbase and Citi have deepened a partnership that lets Citi's institutional clients accept stablecoin payments without ever directly handling crypto. Coinbase business accounts run on Citi's banking infrastructure, and Citi clients get the stablecoin exposure. It's a quiet but meaningful sign of how traditional finance is absorbing digital assets on its own terms.
And Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet five point five, a mid-tier model that actually outperforms the flagship Opus five point five on coding benchmarks — at half the token cost. The catch: independent testers found it consumes more tokens than any model they've measured, so cheaper per token doesn't always mean cheaper per answer.
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