Meta’s Muse Ember matches Claude Haiku at a third of the cost per task
Meta built it for the small jobs AI agents repeat all day. These include calling tools, coding subtasks, routing requests, pulling out data and parsing long documents. Ember costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50…
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How to use your iPhone to take the best picture of the Moon
Trying to snap a picture of the moon with your iPhone can be an exercise in frustration. You frame it up and everything seems fine, but after clicking the shutter, your photo is either a ball of light with no detail or a…
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Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concerns
The company says the new models “show improvements in areas like coding, reasoning, and vision” and communicate more clearly with users. Notably, Anthropic is lowering the cost of Fable from $10 to $8 per million input…
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Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, and cuts Fable’s price
They are new versions of its most powerful AI models. Both are faster than the 5.1 versions from September, and Fable is cheaper. The launch comes as Anthropic nears its stock market listing , which could happen as soon…
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AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 months
On Monday, it announced a $240 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by Insight Partners. This follows the company’s announcement in March of a $155 million Series B…
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France blames Iran for mass-hacks targeting freezers in grocery stores and blood banks
This is the latest in a string of destructive cyberattacks attributed to Iran this year, following a spate of hacks targeting U.S. water providers and other online intrusions that caused mass-disruption to U.S. medical…
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Pentagon mulls placing fleet of military satellites around the Moon
The US military has published a Request for Information on a federal procurement website signaling interest in deploying a “proliferated cislunar constellation” consisting of an unspecified number of satellites…
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New study finds half of tech workers have a side hustle — despite often being the best paid
This compares with barely a third (30%) of all full-time workers, making IT workers among the most likely to have side hustles – 23% freelancing and 7% having a more traditional second job, according to a Careerminds…
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Forget Black Friday: Amazon is already slashing up to $450 off the entire Samsung Galaxy S26 lineup
Weeks ahead of the official event, the retailer is slashing up to $450 off the flagship lineup, knocking the phones down to near-record low prices. Whether you want the compact Galaxy S26, the balanced S26 Plus, or the…
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Gmail users should know about this little-noticed feature
Whenever you hit Send on Gmail , a small box pops up in the bottom left corner of your screen that will let you undo the action before it's too late. It says Message sent along with the options and View message . If…
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