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Claude Opus 5 scores 30x ahead of GPT-5.6 Sol on ARC-AGI-3, priced like its predecessor.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2% on the memorization-resistant ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, nearly four times GPT-5.6 Sol's 7.8%, while holding pricing flat at $5/$25 per million tokens. The model also posted a 21-point SWE-bench Multimodal gain over Opus 4.8 in a single generation.
claude5.ai/news/claude-opus-5-benchmark-results-analysisDeepMind Prospective Credit Assignment Paper Targets Long-Horizon Planning in Models
DeepMind's NeurIPS 2026 submission introduces prospective credit assignment, a training technique that teaches models to connect current decisions to outcomes many steps ahead using structured search and learned heuristics. The approach directly targets the long-horizon planning weaknesses that constrain today's agentic AI systems.
deepmind.google/research/publicationsEU Commission's AI Act high-risk obligations activate in five days
The EU AI Act's most expansive compliance wave activates on August 2, imposing binding requirements on new high-risk AI deployments, formal codes of conduct for providers, and Commission powers to demand documents, order market withdrawals, and levy fines up to 35 million euros or 7% of global turnover. Systems already on the market receive a deferred deadline of 2027 under a Digital Omnibus carve-out.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory-framework-ai(MSFT) Microsoft FY Q4 prints tonight: Azure 40% guide and $627B backlog in focus
Microsoft reports fiscal Q4 2026 results after market close, with Wall Street expecting roughly $87.6B in revenue and EPS near $4.24, but Azure's constant-currency growth rate, guided at 39 to 40%, is the critical figure. The stock sits roughly 31% below its record high as investors weigh $190B in FY2026 capital expenditure against a $627B commercial backlog up 99% year over year.
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