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🚀 Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5
🦾Plus: 🤑 OpenAI brings direct purchasing to ChatGPT
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🛠️ Top 10 ITSM Tools for Your Organization
🎯 Microsoft Went Full “Vibe Working” with 2 Agents
🤖 Grok 4 Now Available in Azure AI Foundry
🐍 7 Python Decorator Tricks for Cleaner Code
🤑 OpenAI brings direct purchasing to ChatGPT
🤳 OpenAI’s TikTok-style app for Sora 2
💡 AI Tutorial:How to get your personal AI data analyst
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Anthropic just released Claude Sonnet 4.5, calling it the “best coding model in the world” and showcasing top-tier performance on development benchmarks while maintaining the same API pricing as its predecessor. Sonnet 4.5 achieves SOTA results on real-world software development (SWE-bench verified), and a nearly 20% upgrade from Opus 4.1 on computer use.
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Microsoft has collaborated closely with xAI to bring Grok 4, their most advanced model, to Azure AI Foundry—delivering powerful reasoning within a platform designed for business-ready safety and control. Grok 4 undeniably has exceptional performance. With a 128K-token context window, native tool use, and integrated web search, it pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in contextual reasoning and dynamic response generation.
This article lists seven decorator tricks that can help you write cleaner code. Some of the examples shown are a perfect fit for using them in data science and data analysis workflows.
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OpenAI just rolled out direct purchasing inside ChatGPT for U.S. users, letting shoppers complete transactions without leaving the conversation interface through a new feature called Instant Checkout. The company partnered with Stripe to create the system, initially supporting Etsy sellers with availability for over 1M Shopify merchants coming soon
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OpenAI is reportedly developing a standalone social platform powered by its upcoming Sora 2 video model, designed to mimic TikTok's vertical scrolling feed but exclusively featuring AI-generated content instead of user uploads. The platform will limit clips to 10 seconds and include identity verification, allowing users to authorize their likeness for video generations.
After months of debate between tech giants and safety lobbyists, California Governor Gavin Newsom has finally signed the landmark SB-53 bill (which was passed by the state two weeks ago), making California the first US state to mandate safety reporting for large AI developers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind.
Despite millions spent on financial software, many finance teams still rely on Excel to close their books and reconcile numbers while preparing them for audit. Two former Microsoft executives view it as a problem — and they have started Maximor to replace spreadsheets with AI agents for the grunt work finance teams perform.
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