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Episode 182
Published 1 month, 4 weeks ago
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Hosts: James & Maya
In this episode:
• Hi, I'm Maya, and today we start with Anthropic, which just made autonomous AI agents a lot cheaper for everyone.
• Right. Claude Sonnet 5 is now the default model for Free and Pro users through August thirty-first. It handles multi-step tasks using browsers and ter...
• The interesting part is the pricing. Sonnet 5 reportedly matches Opus-level performance at a lower cost. That brings agent-style planning below flagsh...
• And it cleared US government safety review, which signals it meets institutional security and ethics standards. Here's why this changes everything for...
• Worth noting the caveats here. Government clearance validates process, not real-world reliability. Safety benchmarks and actual performance in the fie...
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