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Armored figure with glowing "4.7" emblem stands ahead of ghostly predecessors under spotlights — Claude Opus 4.7 launch.

Claude Opus 4.7 Hits 87.6% on Agentic Coding, Beats 4.6

Addy Crezee 16 Apr 2026 1 min read

Armored woman with caduceus and "m2.7" chestplate before a graffitied "DEFAULT" wall — MiniMax m2.7 powers Hermes Agent.

MiniMax m2.7 Goes #3 in Hermes Agent: The Default-Brain Race

Nick Trenkler 16 Apr 2026 1 min read

illustration for the article about opus 4.7: the quiet shift no one’s pointing at, showing claude in the crown, the best

opus 4 to 4.7: the quiet shift no one’s pointing at

Nick Trenkler 16 Apr 2026 3 min read

Gloved hands hold a glowing wireframe globe wrapped in rusted padlocks and chains — 3D world models locked behind dev skills.

6 3D World Models Ranked: Only 2 You Can Actually Try Today

Addy Crezee 16 Apr 2026 1 min read

Pit crew swaps glowing AI chips into a neon race car with a "NEXT RELEASE: 47 HRS" display — AI labs' 3-day shipping cadence.

AI Labs Now Ship Every 3 Days: Google, Anthropic Lead April

Nick Trenkler 15 Apr 2026 1 min read

Woman speaks into vintage mic surrounded by neon [whisper], [panic], [excited] tags — Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS emotion control.

Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Hits #2 With Inline Emotion Tags

Addy Crezee 15 Apr 2026 1 min read

Battered armored robot signs a $414M VC contract under a spotlight in a graffitied boardroom — AI agent security funding.

Cybersecurity VC Funding to Hit $18B in 2026: Where to Build

Nick Trenkler 15 Apr 2026 1 min read

Exhausted hooded user slumps at a graffiti-covered desk by a red "CLAUDE DEGRADED" CRT and a $20/month Claude Pro receipt.

Anthropic Outage Hits Claude.ai, API, and Claude Code Users

Nick Trenkler 15 Apr 2026 1 min read

Hooded coder at a holographic code screen tagged "ROUTINES" with an armored AI looming behind — Claude Routines goes live.

Anthropic Routines Goes Live: What Devs Are Building Day One

Addy Crezee 14 Apr 2026 1 min read

Red lobster robot unplugs from a smoking server, reaching toward a glowing doorway marked 5.4 — OpenClaw model shift.

OpenClaw Tilts Toward GPT-5.4 While Opus Still Burns 751B Tokens

Nick Trenkler 14 Apr 2026 1 min read

Purple armored warrior faces red mech across a glowing caduceus in a neon city — Hermes Agent v0.9.0 squares up to OpenClaw.

Hermes Agent v0.9.0 Closes the Feature Gap With OpenClaw

Addy Crezee 14 Apr 2026 1 min read

Three small neon shops with chat, code and brush signs face a polished AI flagship store with a queue — supplier-rival visual.

Anthropic May Compete With Its Own Customers in App Building

Addy Crezee 13 Apr 2026 1 min read

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