Anthropic's "smartest model" is getting a major boost, the company said in a blog post announcing Claude Opus 4.6. It called the new model a "direct upgrade" from its predecessor in a release, noting that it can better take on complex, multi-step tasks and get "much closer to production-ready quality on the first try than […]

David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
Anthropic says Opus 4.6 supports a 1M context window in beta, scored 90.2% on BigLaw Bench, the highest for any Claude model, and boosts agentic capabilities  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Anthropic debuts Claude Opus 4.6 for enterprise knowledge work.  — It's built for end-to-end autonomy with fewer rewrites.

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6, which it says can analyze company data, regulatory filings, and market information; Anthropic now has 300K+ business users  —  Anthropic is releasing a new version of its most powerful AI model that's designed to carry out financial research …

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Cheeky Pint:
Q&A with Elon Musk on plans for 1TW of space GPUs, Grok and human consciousness, Optimus, xAI's business plan, China's manufacturing win, DOGE, and more  —  Timecodes  —  Transcript  —  Are there really three hours of questions?  Are you fucking serious?  —  Dwarkesh Patel