White House AI Standards: 30-Day Reviews, 3 Labs, and a Classified Pass Bar
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. White House AI Standards: 30-Day Reviews, 3 Labs, and a Classified Pass Bar On June 12, the US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to cut off access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 …
Claude Sonnet 5 Benchmarks: The $2 Model That Caught the $5 Flagship
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. Claude Sonnet 5 Benchmarks: The $2 Model That Caught the $5 Flagship On 30 June 2026, Anthropic published a launch table in which its mid-tier model outscores its flagship. Claude Sonnet 5 posts 1618 …
Zuckerberg Admits AI Agents Are Behind Schedule. Meta’s Bill So Far: $145B and 8,000 Jobs
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. Zuckerberg Admits AI Agents Are Behind Schedule. Meta’s Bill So Far: $145B and 8,000 Jobs Mark Zuckerberg spent the first half of 2026 laying off about 8,000 people, reassigning roughly 7,000 more into AI …
China’s Coding Model, Kimi K2.7 Code, is 6x Cheaper Than Claude. It also Grades Its Own Homework
Author(s): Kashif Mehmood Originally published on Towards AI. China’s Coding Model, Kimi K2.7 Code, is 6x Cheaper Than Claude. It also Grades Its Own Homework China’s best open-weight coder is here; it’s a fraction of the cost, and you cannot independently verify …