Anthropic has today released a new, improved Claude model, Opus 4.7, but has deliberately built it to be less capable than the highly-anticipated Claude Mythos. Anthropic calls Opus 4.7 a “notable improvement” over Opus 4.6, offering advanced software engineering capabilities and improved visioning, memory, instruction-following, and financial analysis. However, the yet-to-be-released (and inadvertently leaked) Mythos

The productivity gains from AI are so great, companies can lay off thousands of employees and still get the same amount of work done — right? Or maybe it’s the opposite: despite all the hype, any supposed AI productivity boom is a mirage, causing employees, even  developers, to experience heavier workloads. At the moment, the

Cadence Design Systems announced two AI-related collaborations at its CadenceLIVE event this week, expanding its work with Nvidia and introducing new integrations with Google Cloud. The Nvidia partnership focuses on combining AI with physics-based simulation and accelerated computing for robotic systems and system-level design. The companies said the approach targets modelling and deployment in semiconductors

OpenAI is introducing sandbox execution that allows enterprise governance teams to deploy automated workflows with controlled risk. Teams taking systems from prototype to production have faced difficult architectural compromises regarding where their operations occurred. Using model-agnostic frameworks offered initial flexibility but failed to fully utilise the capabilities of frontier models. Model-provider SDKs remained closer to

Cloud migration becomes much harder when teams are not moving workloads, but also trying to make every environment reproducible and deployment-ready through Infrastructure as Code. The challenge is not limited to copying applications from one platform to another. It includes validating architecture decisions, controlling drift, enforcing policies, coordinating approvals, and making sure deployment logic can

spektr, a Copenhagen-based startup building AI infrastructure for financial compliance, has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The company automates the analytical side of KYC and KYB work — reviewing corporate documents, mapping ownership structures, verifying business activity, and producing structured risk assessments. Its co-founder and CEO, Mikkel Skarnager, built the company around a

Gizmo, a London-based AI learning platform, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round. The company was co-founded by three University of Cambridge graduates, Petros Christodoulou, Robin Jack, and Paul Evangelou, who built it around a straightforward premise: the same AI techniques that make social media impossible to put down could work just

Resolve AI, a startup focused on keeping enterprise software running once it has been built and deployed, has raised $40 million in a Series A Extension at a $1.5 billion valuation. The round was led by DST Global and Salesforce Ventures, and brings the company’s total funding to more than $190 million. Founders Spiros Xanthos

Sage Haven, a startup that has built an AI-moderated messaging and voice calling app for children, has officially launched its product following a beta period and closed $3 million in pre-seed funding. The company was cofounded by sisters Kate Doerksen and Anne Pizzuti, both mothers who were personally affected by a teenage family member’s experience

OpenAI has a new ChatGPT model, and this one is aimed at security teams. It is called GPT-5.4-Cyber, and it is built to help defenders find software problems, study suspicious code, and move faster when digital systems are at risk. This release matters for one simple reason. OpenAI is not putting it in normal ChatGPT