Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings near-flagship agentic performance at less than half the price of Opus 4.8. Here’s what that actually means for developers building with AI.
The Chip That Only Speaks Transformer — Etched and the Battle to Make AI Inference Cheap
Etched built a chip that only runs transformers — and it just hit a $5 billion valuation with $1 billion in pre-orders. Here’s why inference is the real bottleneck holding AI back.
How to Build Your First MCP Server with Python
X just launched an MCP server. Here’s what the Model Context Protocol actually is, why it matters for developers, and how to build your first MCP server in Python with tested code.
Arena Just Became a $100M Business Off Your AI Votes — And Nobody Saw It Coming
The free AI leaderboard everyone uses to compare models just crossed $100M in annualized revenue. Here’s how a UC Berkeley research project became a $1.7B company — and what happens when the referee becomes a player.
California Just Bought AI for Its Government at Half Price — And It’s Not What Washington Expected
Governor Newsom’s deal with Anthropic gives every California agency Claude at 50% off. Here’s what it means for government AI adoption worldwide.