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Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest powerful LLM, demonstrating superior performance in coding and complex agentic tasks on industry benchmarks. Designed for developers and enterprises, the new ...

The new artificial intelligence model is the second the company has released this year. OpenAI and Anthropic made similar updates a few months ago. The new artificial intelligence model is the second ...

As the temperatures dip, dainty footwear is cast into the back of the closet. I ready my tried and true boots for action, but some are heavy duty (read: just plain heavy!), and some are simply not ...

Blues coach Jim Montgomery speaks with the media on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, after a home win over the Oilers. (Video courtesy St. Louis Blues) So much about Monday’s game probably felt familiar to the ...

Could a $3/month AI model really hold its own against industry giants like Claude Sonnet? At first glance, the idea seems almost laughable, after all, premium models command hefty subscription fees ...

It’s demanding, damp, but it won’t crush your tootsies. When Max Hitzig stomped his winning run at the 2024 Verbier Pro, I noticed something surprising—he was wearing a BOA boot. Hitzig, like many ...

Payers are blaming “aggressive provider coding” for driving up medical costs, but health systems are pushing back on that narrative, arguing that the real issue lies not in upcoding, but in ...

In a crowded online education space filled with expensive, time-consuming coding bootcamps, one program is making waves for redefining what "online education" should look like. The question many ...

He's got soul, and he's a soldier. In Netflix's "Boots," a sweet and funny new dramedy set at the U.S. Marine Corps boot camp in 1990, young gay man Cameron Cope (Miles Heizer, "Parenthood") is that ...

Emilie Thalund's feature directorial bow starring Marie Helweg Augustsen was a prizewinner at this year's San Sebastian Film Festival. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic Danish teenager Lea ...

Microsoft and GitHub have made AI assistance a key part of their software development tools. Embedded in the latest Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code releases, GitHub Copilot puts a multifaceted ...