Claude Opus 4.8 lands with effort controls and a faster mode [Xtra!]Anthropic's flagship model gets tunable reasoning depth and speed, a direct answer to cost/latency complaints.
Anthropic raises $65B Series H [Xtra!]One of the largest private funding rounds ever underscores how capital-intensive frontier AI has become.
Judgment Labs tackles long-context evals for production agents [Xtra!]As agents run longer, evaluating them reliably is becoming as hard as building them.
How far behind are open models, really? [Xtra!]A concrete answer to whether open-weight models are catching up or falling further behind frontier labs.