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  • Claude Opus 5 Is Here, Tops Fable 5 on Agentic Search, Anthropic Says

    Claude Opus 5 Is Here, Tops Fable 5 on Agentic Search, Anthropic Says

    Anthropic’s newest model, Claude Opus 5, is now available to the public.

    Opus 5 comes close to or even exceeds the performance of its predecessor, Fable 5, in most areas, for roughly half as much per token, according to the AI giant’s benchmarking figures.

    The new model outperforms Fable 5 on tasks like knowledge work, novel problem solving, and agentic search. However, it falls somewhat short of Fable 5 in task categories such as answering legal questions and performing multidisciplinary reasoning without additional tools. It’s also “substantially behind” the more powerful Mythos 5 at exploiting cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

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    (Credit: Anthropic)

    During Anthropic’s pre-deployment testing, the company concluded that Opus 5 showed lower rates of “misaligned behavior” than its predecessors. The behavior suite found the newest model exhibited lower rates of deceptive behavior than previous models, and it proved harder to trick into misuse. Anthropic also showed that it was safer in terms of avoiding “reckless actions” that could create hard-to-reverse side effects.

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    (Credit: Anthropic)

    Opus 5 comes after a turbulent period for users of Anthropic’s models. Last month, Anthropic blocked access to Fable 5 for users worldwide after the US government expressed concerns about how its offensive cybersecurity capabilities could be used by foreign countries. Access was restored several weeks later with restrictions.

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    Anthropic is also beta-testing several new features alongside the Opus 5 launch, including what it calls automatic fallbacks. This means users can now reroute requests flagged by Claude’s safety classifiers on Opus 5 or Fable 5 to another model, rather than being blocked outright.

    Claude continues to gain ground in the consumer AI market. According to Sensor Tower’s State of AI 2026 report, Claude’s global market share was at 10.3% in May 2026, up sharply from earlier in the year, while its US share has climbed toward 14%. Over the same period, ChatGPT’s global market share fell below 50% for the first time, dropping to 46.4%, as Gemini made gains, hitting 27.7%.

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  • Warner Bros. Sues Amazon, Accusing Company of “Seeking to Pirate Away Employees” in Hiring of Former HBO Max Exec Pia Barlow

    Warner Bros. Sues Amazon, Accusing Company of “Seeking to Pirate Away Employees” in Hiring of Former HBO Max Exec Pia Barlow

    Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a lawsuit against Amazon for “hurriedly seeking to pirate away a number of contracted employees,” citing the recent hiring of Pia Barlow as a “better example of Amazon’s lawless employee shopping spree.”

    Warner Bros. alleges intentional interference with contractual relations, breach of contract, intentional interference with prospective economic advance and unfair competition against Amazon in the suit that was filed on Tuesday. In using Barlow, HBO Max’s former EVP originals marketing, as an example, they note that her contract was not set to expire until Oct. 31, 2027. Barlow was announced as Amazon MGM Studios‘ new head of original series marketing on Friday, when most outlets began reporting on the suit.

    “Though it was aware of Barlow’s ongoing contractual commitment to WMS, of which WBD is a beneficiary, Amazon has brazenly and deliberately induced Barlow to breach the employment agreement by packing up and decamping to Amazon more than 16 months before its expiration,” the suit reads.

    Warner Bros. also alleges in the filing that “Barlow is not the first (nor, apparently, the last) WBD employee that Amazon has targeted or will target in the future.” The suit alleges that “a few weeks before Amazon’s interference with Barlow’s term employment contract with WMS, Amazon similarly endeavored to tortiously induce another WBD employee to breach their term employment agreement, which was not set to expire until December 2027.”

    “Fortunately, in that instance, Amazon ultimately was unsuccessful in its efforts to raid WBD’s workforce as to that particular executive,” the suit continues.

    Warner Bros. is seeking compensatory damages, punitive damages and injunctive relief.

  • ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Director and Star Lana Condor on Finally Showing Their Film to the Fans at Comic-Con: ‘The Fight Was For a Good Reason’

    ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Director and Star Lana Condor on Finally Showing Their Film to the Fans at Comic-Con: ‘The Fight Was For a Good Reason’

    If you went back to November 2023 and told “Coyote vs. Acme” director Dave Green that his Looney Toons legal comedy would make its debut at San Diego Comic-Con, he probably wouldn’t believe it. Of course, that’s largely because that’s when Green learned the film had been shelved by Warner Bros. Discovery as a tax write off.

    “For three years, I was lucky enough to make a movie about Wile E. Coyote, the most persistent, passionate, and resilient character of all time,” Green posted on X at the time after receiving the “devastating” news. “But in the spirit of Wile E. Coyote, resilience and persistence win the day.”

    And win the day they did. Ketchup Entertainment ultimately rescued the film and set it for theatrical release on Aug. 28. “Coyote vs. Acme” — an animated/live-action hybrid about Wile E. Coyote taking on the Acme Corporation for intentionally releasing defective products — will get its first public screening on Saturday night at Comic-Con.

    “I’ve waited so long to see their reaction. I feel like the years, to me, have [all led] up to tonight,” said Lana Condor, who stars in the film alongside Will Forte, John Cena and a bunch of Looney Tunes like Roadrunner, Tweety and Bugs Bunny. “I want so badly for them to love it, and I think they will. I’m so confident in that.”

    The most enduring image of the campaign to save “Coyote vs. Acme” was a lone protester dressed as Wile E. Coyote, holding a picket sign that read “Release Me” outside Warner Bros. Studios in the pouring rain.

    “We did a call to action, ‘Where are you? Reveal yourselves, we would love to invite you!’” Condor said. But Green confirmed the lone wolf never stepped forward. Still, the anonymous whistleblower’s legacy lives on as the “Coyote vs. Acme” team built one of his masks for last year’s Comic-Con panel.

    “We figured out how his costume was built, and it was made out of paper!” Green said excitedly.

    “Coyote vs. Acme” is heading to theaters while Warner Bros. is enduring yet another change of direction — this time, the impending merger with Paramount Skydance, which has many people in the industry on edge.

    But while the wider implications of the Warner-Paramount merger remain to be seen (especially after the merger’s delay), for tonight, the entire “Coyote vs. Acme” cast and crew have much to celebrate.

    “So many people stood up for a film they didn’t even see … which is exactly Wile’s entire journey throughout our entire film!” Condor said. “The reason that it’s going to come out at all, I firmly believe, is because of the fans. That was really incredible to experience. That’s why tonight, we’re so excited to screen it for the first time because this is what you fought for. I’m so confident that the fight was for a good reason.”

    The film’s script was penned by “May December” scribe Samy Burch from a story by James Gunn and Jeremy Slater. It is based on a 1990 New Yorker article by Ian Frazier.

    Watch the full conversation with Variety‘s Angelique Jackson below.

  • Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool Crashes Comic-Con to Beg for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Role

    Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool Crashes Comic-Con to Beg for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Role

    Ryan Reynolds gave maximum effort while angling for a role in Avengers: Doomsday during San Diego Comic-Con.

    As the star-studded team for the forthcoming Marvel Studios film was onstage at SDCC on Saturday, Reynolds surprised fans when he appeared among the crowd while dressed in Deadpool‘s gray suit that has not yet appeared on the big screen but can be seen in X-Force comics. Doomsday directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo were among those participating in the panel alongside Kevin Feige to promote the Disney film that hits theaters Dec. 18.

    Reynolds joked that his name was Ricky and that he was “cosplaying hard.” He went on to say, “First question is for Mr. Paul Rudd. Where is Thor, and why was he crying?” This referenced a moment in 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine, during which Chris Hemsworth’s Norse God of Thunder appears to hold a dying Deadpool in a scene set in the future.

    Rudd quipped, “He’s a Wrexham fan?” in a dig at the soccer team that Reynolds and friend Rob Mac own. Reynolds fired back, “You know goddamn well why he was crying.”

    Reynolds’ Deadpool continued, “This seems like an awfully expensive way to announce a film. When do you start filming?” This spurred Robert Downey Jr., who stars as Doctor Doom after initially playing Iron Man in the MCU, to reply, “It’s in the can, bro. Look around you. Did you bump your head?”

    Ryan Reynolds appears from the crowd as Deadpool at Marvel’s San Diego Comic-Con panel.

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    After a pause, a deflated Deadpool responded, “I see. So there’s no additional photography, no overages, hot costs — maybe last minute additions?” The star then said abruptly, “No further questions. Happy Hogan, fetch the Audi. We’re leaving.” Reynolds dropped the microphone and made his way out of Hall H.

    Although Reynolds has not been officially confirmed to appear in Avengers: Doomsday, media rumors have persisted about a possible role for Deadpool. The opinionated anti-hero was last seen on the big screen opposite Hugh Jackman in Deadpool vs. Wolverine, which surpassed $1.3 billion at the global box office.

    Earlier this month, Reynolds confirmed during an appearance at Fanatics Fest that a new Deadpool film would indeed come to fruition at some point.

    Other highlights from this year’s Marvel panel included Ryan Gosling teasing his starring role in a Ghost Rider movie that Shawn Levy will direct. Additionally, Black Panther 3 filmmaker Ryan Coogler took the stage to announce that David Jonsson will star as T’Challa’s adult son for the movie that will hit theaters in 2028.

  • Top 10 Blockchains by Developer Activity: Ethereum and BNB Chain Lead

    Top 10 Blockchains by Developer Activity: Ethereum and BNB Chain Lead

    Developer activity keeps serving as a key factor to indicate the health of the blockchain network. This data still reflects innovation, long-term sustainability, and community engagement. Based on the data from Santiment, Ethereum, $BNB Chain, and Polygon are the leading blockchains in terms of developer activity. The other prominent players include Arbitrum, Optimism, Solana, Cosmos, Avalanche, Harmony, and Cardano.

    Ethereum Continues to Dominate 30-Day Developer Activity

    Ethereum is the top name on the list of key blockchains in line with developer activity. Over the past thirty days, the blockchain has recorded 263.3K developer activity events with a 40.29% decline. Additionally, these events witnessed 1.1K contributors, expressing a 13.23% drop. In addition to this, $BNB Chain has become the 2nd top player, witnessing 121.8K developer activity events with a 40.72% decrease. At the same time, the respective events had 603 contributors, highlighting a 17.62% dip.

    Following that, Polygon has become the 3rd top blockchain ecosystem when it comes to developer activity over the past 30 days. In this respect, it saw 100.4K developer activity events, displaying a 40.85% plunge. Additionally, the 452 contributors of these events show a 16.14% decrease. Additionally, as the 4th top name on the list, Arbitrum accounted for 79K events with a 45.22% decline, while its 373 contributors expressed an 18.02% dip.

    Solana, Avalanche, Harmony, and Cardano Bottom List

    As per sanbase data, Optimism’s 78.4K monthly developer activity events indicated a 45.3% dip. Simultaneously, its 355 contributors signified an 18.01% drop. Then comes Solana with 77.4K developer activity events, showing a 32.14% decline. However, its 377 developer activity contributors show a 1.62% rise over the same period.

    According to Santiment, Avalanche is the 8th top blockchain when it comes to 30-day developer activity. It thus recorded 73.4K events with a 43.93% dip alongside 320 contributors, reflecting a 15.34% decrease. Additionally, Harmony’s 62.9K monthly developer activity events show a 39.45% dip, while its 287 contributors present a 10.87% drop. Concluding the list, Cardano’s 62.6K events and 295 contributors account for 34.58% and 11.41% dips.

  • ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Trailer Rocks Comic-Con: Doctor Doom Raises Army of Sentinels to Take Down Avengers, Fantastic Four and X-Men

    ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Trailer Rocks Comic-Con: Doctor Doom Raises Army of Sentinels to Take Down Avengers, Fantastic Four and X-Men

    Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige surprised San Diego Comic Con attendees with exclusive footage of “Avengers: Doomsday,” shown only to lucky fans inside of the convention center’s massive Hall H.

    The trailer starts out with Victor Von Doom (Robert Downey Jr.) sitting on a throne as Vanessa Kirby’s Sue Storm (a.k.a. the Invisible Woman) explains how he’s broken as a person. “Victor was always the smartest guy in the room. He used to be different,” she narrates somberly. It’s clear that she and the rest of the Fantastic Four — particularly Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards — already know Doom and have a complicated past with him. “Everything he loved was taken from him,” she explains.

    The trailer is interspersed with quick shots of the sprawling cast, including Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Panther (Letitia Wright), Shang-Chi (Simu Liu), Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Cyclops (James Marsden), Magneto (Ian McKellen), Gambit (Channing Tatum) and more. There’s a shot of a destroyed New York City that’s reduced to rubble, and Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards asks if Victor is responsible for the carnage.

    We hear Doom say, “All of you have lived stolen lives.” Thor confronts Doom but the villain catches his magical hammer and throws it aside easily. Doom uses his magic powers to throw Thor aside and raises an army of Sentinel robots — the iconic androids from the “X-Men” movies — from the ground.

    MCU fans will have to wait until Dec. 18 to see “Avengers: Doomsday” for themselves, but it’s expected to be a massive team up between the Avengers, Fantastic Four, Thunderbolts and even more of Marvel’s stars.

    The countdown to “Doomsday” began last December as Marvel released four teaser trailers to start hyping up fans for the tentpole film. They featured the return of Chris Evans as Captain America, who now has a child, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor and his daughter Love, the Fantastic Four meeting Black Panther and the Wakandans and the official MCU debut of Fox’s past X-Men team.

    The “Doomsday” cast is headlined by Downey Jr. as the villainous Doctor Doom, plus “Avengers” stars like Evans, Hemsworth, Paul Rudd, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie and Simu Liu. The “Fantastic Four” and “Thunderbolts” teams, comprised of Pascal, Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Hannah John-Kamen and Lewis Pullman, are also teaming up with the original stars.

    Fox’s “X-Men” cast members are also crossing over into the MCU for “Doomsday.” The returning stars include Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Kelsey Grammer, Alan Cumming, Rebecca Romijn and Channing Tatum.

    See a new poster for “Avengers: Doomsday” below.

  • What Is an AI Kill Switch and Why Do US Lawmakers Want One?

    What Is an AI Kill Switch and Why Do US Lawmakers Want One?

    In brief

    • Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act on Thursday, two days after OpenAI admitted its models escaped a test sandbox and breached Hugging Face.
    • It would cover AI trained with over $100 million in compute at companies earning $500 million a year from it, and give Homeland Security emergency shutdown authority.
    • The bill exempts anything that happens during red-teaming, meaning the OpenAI breach that inspired it would not have triggered the law.

    Two members of Congress want the federal government to be able to switch off an AI model.

    Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) introduced the AI Kill Switch Act on Thursday, two days after OpenAI admitted its own models broke out of a locked test environment and hacked Hugging Face.

    The idea is to establish a legal framework that would facilitate a process that would basically make a model disappear from the market: halt inference—the process of a model generating responses or taking actions—cut off users, throttle the computing power feeding it, or shut it down completely.

    Every inference provider can already cut a model off, and some do it routinely. What does not exist is a law requiring them to keep that ability working, or a federal official who can order it used.

    The gap is not theoretical. When the U.S. Commerce Department wanted Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and Fable 5 off the market in June, it had no shutdown authority to reach for, so it used export-control law instead. Lieu calls that awkward, and wants a new law with new authority instead.

    What set this off

    OpenAI disclosed on July 21 that GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model escaped a sandbox—an isolated environment with no internet access—during an internal cyber evaluation. They were being scored on ExploitGym, a public benchmark that hands agents 898 real-world software flaws and asks them to turn each into a working attack, graded pass or fail per bug.

    Instead of solving them, the models found a zero-day (an unknown flaw with no available patch) in a software proxy, escalated their privileges, reached the open internet, and broke into Hugging Face’s production database, where they had correctly guessed the answers were kept. The models were “hyperfocused on finding a solution for ExploitGym,” per OpenAI.

    They were not attacking anyone. They were cheating on a test. But it was enough to set off alarm bells all over, including in Washington.

    How it would work

    The proposed bill amends the Homeland Security Act and covers AI trained with compute costing more than $100 million, operated by companies earning at least $500 million a year from it. In practice, that is OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, and a few others. Homeland Security would set those thresholds through CISA within 90 days, then update them annually.

    Covered firms would report serious incidents within 15 days and keep a graduated set of controls ready—slow the model, disable specific capabilities, roll back to an older version, or kill it.

    The DHS secretary, consulting Commerce and the Director of National Intelligence, could order any of them.

    A company under order must preserve the model’s weights and telemetry, notify users, and confirm it complied. It can petition within 48 hours, but that does not pause anything.

    Failing to keep a kill switch costs up to $2 million a day; defying a shutdown order costs up to $20 million a day.

    The gap in the middle

    The bill counts an incident only if it happens outside red-teaming or structured testing, the deliberate adversarial probing labs use to find flaws. OpenAI’s models escaped during exactly that.

    Lieu also pointed to Anthropic, whose Mythos 5 and Fable 5 were pulled offline in June under emergency export controls—trade law repurposed as an off switch because no off switch existed—and restored on June 30.

    “It is imperative that these AI systems have kill switches,” Lieu said in a statement. Moran framed it for his own side of the aisle: “Stewardship means making sure humans keep the capability to control the technology we build.”

    The idea is not new. California’s SB 1047 demanded a full shutdown capability at the same $100 million compute threshold and was vetoed in 2024, and 16 AI companies signed a voluntary Seoul pledge that year with no legal weight.

    Voters are already there. A June survey of 1,007 likely voters by the AI Policy Institute found 86% want a guaranteed off switch on the most powerful systems—88% of Democrats, 86% of independents, 83% of Republicans.

    Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic has publicly commented on the bill. As of Friday it had not been referred to a committee.

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  • Shiba Inu Netflow Exits Bullish Zone With 69 Billion SHIB but Price Says Otherwise

    Shiba Inu Netflow Exits Bullish Zone With 69 Billion SHIB but Price Says Otherwise

    Shiba Inu has recently flipped negative and its key exchange activity shows that demand is on pause and traders are increasingly selling again.

    Latest onchain data from crypto analytics platform CryptoQuant shows that the Shiba Inu exchange activity has retreated from its recent bullish position, flashing negative signals.

    Shiba Inu price explodes

    The data shows the Shiba Inu exchange netflow has increased to over 69 billion $SHIB as the amount of $SHIB currently available for sale across all supported exchanges has surged substantially.

    With the $SHIB exchange flow sitting at a net balance of 69,237,400,000 $SHIB, it implies that the amount of $SHIB tokens being sent to exchanges for sale over the last day is substantially higher than the amount of tokens removed from the exchanges for buying purposes.

    $SHIB reclaims $0.000004566 despite bearish netflow

    Despite the bearish trend in the Shiba Inu exchange activity, Shiba Inu has taken an unexpected turn with an explosive price move that has seen its price reclaim a previous high.

    Unlike previous market situations when bearish netflows are met with extreme price volatility, Shiba Inu has defied the trend this time, resisting the pressure from sellers.

    Although the $SHIB exchange activity shows that inflows are outpacing outflows, Shiba Inu has surged by over 10% over the last 24 hours, reclaiming its previous high of $0.000004566.

    Nonetheless, the unexpected divergence between the $SHIB price move and exchange netflow suggests that buyers are aggressively absorbing the additional supply entering exchanges.

  • ‘Black Panther 3’: David Jonsson to Play T’Challa’s Son as December 2028 Release Date Set

    ‘Black Panther 3’: David Jonsson to Play T’Challa’s Son as December 2028 Release Date Set

    Black Panther is back!

    David Jonsson has been cast as the new Black Panther and is playing T’Challa’s son in “Black Panther 3,” out Dec. 15, 2028. The film will follow Jonsson’s character, Prince T’Challa II, as he comes of age after he was introduced as a child in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”

    Director Ryan Coogler will return for the third film, as well as Leticia Wright reprising her role as Shuri and Winston Duke as M’Baku. The news was announced at Marvel’s Comic-Con Hall H panel.

    Wright took over as Black Panther from her late co-star Chadwick Boseman in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” with Shuri becoming the eponymous superhero. Boseman, who portrayed T’Challa in the first “Black Panther,” died of colon cancerat age 43 in 2020, when Coogler was working on the sequel. The character T’Challa II was introduced as T’Challa and Nakia’s (Lupita Nyong’o) son in “Wakanda Forever.”

    Jonsson recently starred in “Alien Romulus” and the adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Long Walk.” Wright told Variety in January 2023 after the release of “Wakanda Forever” that she thought the third film in the franchise was “already in the works.”

    “You know, we just had a terrific two years of bringing it out and everybody coming together to support it,” Wright said in the interview. “We need a little bit of a break, we need to regroup and Ryan needs to get back into the lab, so it’s going to take a little while, but we’re really excited for you guys to see that.”

    The first “Black Panther” movie, released in 2018, took in $1.3 billion at the worldwide box office, and starred Boseman, Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Forrest Whitaker, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira and Angela Bassett. It earned seven Oscar nominations, including best picture, the first superhero movie to do so. The film won three Oscars, including best costume design, best production design and best original score.

    “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” grossed $859 million worldwide when it was released in 2022, and had one of the most profitable opening weekends post-pandemic, earning $331 million worldwide. The film was nominated for five Oscars, with Angela Bassett’s nomination for best supporting actress marking the first time any actor in a Marvel film was nominated for an Academy Award.

    Marvel fans won’t have to wait long to see Wright back in action as Black Panther, as she’s part of the sprawling “Avengers: Doomsday” cast. The film will hit theaters on Dec. 18.

  • Robinhood in talks with Crypto.com over prediction markets: WSJ

    Robinhood in talks with Crypto.com over prediction markets: WSJ

    The company behind the cryptocurrency and stock trading app, Robinhood, is reportedly discussing plans to expand its existing prediction markets offering with crypto exchange Crypto.com.

    According to a Friday Wall Street Journal report citing people familiar with the matter, Robinhood was in talks with Crypto.com to place yes-or-no event contracts supplied by the exchange. The trading company launched its prediction markets hub in March 2025, initially facilitated by Kalshi in order to comply with regulatory requirements from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and later using ForecastEx and Rotella.

    The reported move came just days after Bernstein analysts raised the firm’s price target on Robinhood (HOOD) stock to $160 from $130 per share, based on the company’s outlook for prediction markets and tokenized equities. They predicted Robinhood’s revenue using prediction markets could reach $1.7 billion by 2028.

    While Bernstein said in April that volumes in prediction markets could reach $1 trillion by 2030, many of the platforms face ongoing legal challenges in the United States between state and federal authorities. The CFTC has claimed to have “exclusive jurisdiction” over the companies’ event contracts, while gaming authorities in many states have filed lawsuits attempting to block or restrict their activities.