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Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 delivers near-Opus performance at Sonnet prices, putting serious agentic AI within reach of marketing teams that never had enterprise-tier budgets to spend on it

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Claude Sonnet 5 is Live - Here's What's New

Every few months, a new model arrives, promising to close the gap between what your budget allows and what your ambition demands. This time, the promise has some real teeth behind it.

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OpenAI just launched three new models and immediately restricted them to

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the Government Controls Access to OpenAi's New Models

Two weeks ago, Anthropic's most capable models went dark under a government export control directive. On June 26, OpenAI launched three new models...

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Google reportedly restricted Meta's access to Gemini AI models. Here's what that actually signals for marketers watching the AI platform wars play out.

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Google Is Rationing Gemini Access to Meta

If Google is rationing AI capacity to Meta, the question worth sitting with isn't what this means for two of the largest companies on earth. It's...

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The US lifted its ban on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. Here's what actually happened, what's still unclear, and what marketers should not assume.

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Claude Fable 5 Is Still Banned For General Users

The instinct is to treat the June 26 letter as a green light. Ban lifted, model approved, marketers can relax. That reading is premature, and the...

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Medicare just deployed AI to manage prior authorization for 65 million Americans. Early results from six pilot states include hallucinations, payment delays, and patients driving hours for care they can't get approved.

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Medicare's AI Authorization Experiment

Bill Curry drives five hours round trip to get an epidural injection for his back. He's done it for years. This year, Medicare's new AI-powered prior...

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While hyperscalers burn tens of billions building AI infrastructure, Cloudflare is betting on efficiency over raw spend.

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Hyperscalers Rethink AI Energy Options

The AI infrastructure arms race has a dirty secret: most companies can't play it. Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet are committing capital...

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A $27 million congressional race just turned AI regulation into a ballot issue. What happened in New York's 12th district is the opening move in a much longer political fight — and marketers should be paying attention.

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$27 Million Spent On AI Policy in Congressional Race

The most expensive AI policy fight in congressional history just ended in a Manhattan primary, and both sides are claiming they won. They're both...

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Over $100 million in AI industry money is now flowing into elections across the country. Tuesday's results suggest it's not buying what the spenders hoped for — yet.

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AI Super PAC Money Just Met the Ballot Box

The AI industry has spent the last year building one of the most well-funded political operations in recent memory. Tuesday was its first real test....

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OpenAI just unveiled its first custom AI chip, called Jalapeño, built with Broadcom. The inference era is here, and the infrastructure shift underneath it has real consequences for how AI tools perform and what they cost.

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OpenAI Built Its Own Chip (Bye, Nvidia?)

OpenAI has been one of Nvidia's biggest customers for years. On Wednesday, it announced it's also becoming a competitor — at least at the...

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One in 10 people now get news from AI chatbots weekly. That number is growing fast among younger audiences — and the trust problem buried in the data should concern every marketer, publisher, and growth leader paying attention.

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One in Ten People Now Get News From AI Chatbots

The Reuters Institute just released its 2026 Digital News Report, and the headline sounds reassuring: AI chatbots remain a secondary news source for...

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Stanford graduates are booing AI at commencement. That's not a PR problem — it's a signal that the most technically prepared generation in history doesn't trust what we're building.

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The Kids at Stanford Are Not Alright With AI

These are the kids who grew up with the internet, survived a pandemic inside Zoom classrooms, and enrolled in the most competitive university in the...

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Manhattan's best leasing year since 2000. 70+ cities banning data centers. AI's commercial real estate story is getting complicated fast — here's where it stands.

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AI Is Booming in Commercial Real Estate

Manhattan is having its best leasing year since 2000. San Francisco's office market — written off two years ago — is quietly stabilizing. Across the...

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10 AI Prompts That'll Actually Save You Time (Not Just Impress Your Coworkers)

Forget the robots-taking-over headlines. These 10 prompts will show you how to use AI for the boring stuff you actually need to get done—like writing emails that don't suck, brainstorming ideas when your brain is fried, and automating the repetitive tasks eating your day.

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