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Anthropic is making a significant move in the AI market today with the launch of Opus five, a model the company says nearly matches the performance of its top-tier offering at roughly half the price. That combination of capability and cost could shift how developers and enterprises choose between premium and mid-tier models going forward.
Turning to a quieter corner of the AI world, the UK's AI Safety Institute has published a preliminary assessment of Kimi K three's cyber capabilities, examining what the Chinese-built reasoning model can actually do in offensive and defensive security contexts. It's part of a broader effort by safety researchers to get ahead of frontier models before deployment decisions are made.
And from the world of crypto, Poolin — once among the largest Bitcoin mining pools on the planet — has filed for bankruptcy. The Singapore-based operation never recovered after freezing user withdrawals back in twenty twenty-two, and it's now auctioning off its remaining Texas mining facilities to pay back roughly eleven thousand seven hundred users still holding IOUs. It's a slow, painful ending to a name that once carried real weight in the industry.
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