The AI efficiency wars have escalated with a massive new model release from Anthropic. The company has officially launched Claude Sonnet 5, engineered to deliver near-Opus 4.8 intelligence with "adaptive thinking" turned on by default, offering a dramatic cost reduction for high-scale agentic workflows. On the hardware and neuroscience front, Meta has made a massive open-source breakthrough by using AI to decode full sentences directly from non-invasive brain scans with up to 78% accuracy.

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• Anthropic unveiling Claude Sonnet 5, their most agentic model yet, featuring native long-term planning, automated browser navigation, and silent real-time cybersecurity safeguards.
• Meta’s Brain2Qwerty (Version 2) smashing BCI records by decoding neural typing data into words at a 61% average acc ...