Anthropic's release of its new AI model, Sonnet 4.6, and OpenAI's acquisition of OpenClaw, along with other developments, are reshaping the technology landscape. Meanwhile, Bayer reached a $7.25 billion settlement over Roundup cancer claims, and an Indian university faced embarrassment at an AI summit for misrepresenting a Chinese-made robot dog as its own innovation.
Anthropic unveiled Claude Sonnet 4.6 on Tuesday, a model offering near-flagship intelligence at a mid-tier cost, according to VentureBeat. The model is a full upgrade across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design, and features a 1M token context window in beta. Pricing remains steady at $315 per million tokens, the same as its predecessor, Sonnet 4.5. This pricing detail is significant, as Anthropic's flagship Opus models cost $1,575 per million tokens, according to VentureBeat.
In a separate development, OpenAI acquired OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent, signaling a shift in the chatbot era. Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, announced he would join OpenAI to "work on bringing agents to everyone," according to VentureBeat. The OpenClaw project will transition to an independent foundation, though OpenAI is already sponsoring it. This move represents OpenAI's aggressive bet on the future of AI, focusing on what models can do rather than just what they can say, according to VentureBeat.
In other news, Bayer reached a $7.25 billion settlement on Tuesday to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer, according to Fortune. The proposed settlement comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to hear arguments in April on Bayer's assertion that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's approval of Roundup without a cancer warning should invalidate claims filed in state courts. The settlement would eliminate some of the risk from an eventual Supreme Court ruling, ensuring patients receive settlement money even if the Supreme Court rules in Bayer's favor, according to Fortune.
Meanwhile, Galgotias University in India was removed from an AI summit in New Delhi after displaying a Chinese-made robotic dog, claiming it was the university's own innovation, according to Fortune. The robot, identified as the Unitree Go2, sold by China's Unitree Robotics, was showcased by a professor who claimed it was developed by the university's Centre of Excellence. Internet users quickly identified the robot, which has a starting price of $1,600, according to Fortune.
In a separate technical note, a Hacker News post revealed that AVX2 code runs at 2/3 the speed of equivalent SSE2-SSE4.x optimized code under emulation on Windows 11 ARM. The post concluded that compiling for AVX2 is not recommended if an app might run on Windows ARM, especially if performance is a priority.
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