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Datalab Marker v2 vs MinerU, Docling, and Liteparse: Benchmark Breakdown
Datalab rewrote Marker as a three-mode pipeline. Version 2 hits 76.0 on olmOCR-bench and sustains 2.9 pages per second on one B200 — over 5× MinerU's pipeline backend, while beating Docling on both accuracy and speed. Here's how it compares against MinerU, Docling and LiteParse, and which one fits your use case. The post Datalab Marker v2 vs MinerU, Docling, and Liteparse: Benchmark Breakdown…
Jul 25, 2026
I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else
OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
Jul 25, 2026
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
Jul 24, 2026
Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and Computer Use at Unchanged Opus Pricing
Today, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. It replaces Claude Opus 4.8 as the Opus-tier flagship. Pricing is unchanged at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. The Anthropic team positions Opus 5 as approaching the intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price. It is now the default model on […] The post Meet the New Claude Opus 5: Frontier-Class Agentic Coding and…
Jul 24, 2026
Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech
"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."
Jul 24, 2026
Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap
Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.
Jul 24, 2026
Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star
Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Co-Star is a free app that offers daily horoscopes and allows you to check your compatibility with friends. As noted on the app's FAQ page,…
Jul 24, 2026
Anthropic claims its new Claude Opus 5 delivers near-Fable 5 performance at half the token price
Anthropic's new flagship model Claude Opus 5 posts top scores in coding and knowledge work at half of Fable 5's token rates. On ARC-AGI-3, a benchmark for novel problem-solving, Opus 5 hits 30.2 percent, nearly four times higher than GPT-5.6 Sol. The article Anthropic claims its new Claude Opus 5 delivers near-Fable 5 performance at half the token price appeared first on The Decoder.
Jul 24, 2026
Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage
The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.
Jul 24, 2026
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.
Jul 24, 2026
You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore
The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn't perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, however, the deal seems to be dead. And the web is being forced to reckon with what happens when the Google traffic dries up. On this episode of…
Jul 24, 2026
Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities
Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains" and is much better at complex coding tasks. (Fable 5 is the public-facing…
Jul 24, 2026
Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant
Meta says its AI chatbot is going beyond just answering questions and generating images. | Image: Meta Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer…
Jul 24, 2026
Anthropic launches Opus 5
Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.
Jul 24, 2026
Microsoft's open-weight AI push is so obviously an Azure play it hurts
Microsoft, along with Meta, Nvidia, and more than 20 other companies, is pushing for open-weight AI models in an open letter. The strategic logic is simple: the more models running on Azure, the less Microsoft depends on expensive OpenAI and Anthropic models. The company is also swapping external models in products like Copilot for its in-house MAI family, which performs significantly worse in…
Jul 24, 2026
As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
Jul 24, 2026
Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool
Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.
Jul 24, 2026
Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star
The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
Jul 24, 2026
The tech-broification of American science has officially begun
Trump’s science adviser Michael Kratsios has no science background. | Image: Getty / The Verge The Trump administration unveiled the first "Genesis Mission" grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House has described as "comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project." At roughly the same time, Trump's science…
Jul 24, 2026
Sakana claims its AI model router Fugu Ultra v1.1 now beats Fable 5 without even including it in the pool
Sakana AI has updated its Fugu Ultra AI router to version 1.1, claiming gains of up to 7.9 points over v1.0. Independent verification doesn't exist yet. The update adds a Claude Code-compatible endpoint. The service remains unavailable in the EU. The article Sakana claims its AI model router Fugu Ultra v1.1 now beats Fable 5 without even including it in the pool appeared first on The Decoder.
Jul 24, 2026