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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, an updated general-availability model that narrowly reclaims the top spot among publicly available LLMs, though Anthropic itself acknowledges it trails the restricted Mythos model released just a week prior.

Source: bloomberg-tech

Whoop introduced a new blood testing feature, prompting questions about data security and healthcare implications. TechRadar spoke with Whoop's Head of Healthcare about how the company is handling user data protection for this new capability.

Source: TechRadar

The French Open announced it will permit athletes to wear wearable devices such as Whoop during competition on a trial basis, potentially expanding Whoop's visibility in professional sports.

Source: Front Office Sports

Kalshi is requiring identity verification from all users regardless of whether they engage in wagering activity, citing child protection concerns. The policy has drawn scrutiny over its scope and data privacy implications.

Source: Gizmodo

Anthropic executive Mike Krieger has left the board of Figma, an event being compared to the 2009 departure of Google's CEO from Apple's board amid growing competitive overlap.

Source: theinformation

OpenAI has told some advertisers that it will allow them to run ChatGPT ad campaigns that charge advertisers based on the number of clicks their ads get within the coming days.

Source: TheInformation

Deutsche Börse has purchased a $200 million stake in crypto exchange Kraken, marking a significant institutional investment ahead of the company's anticipated IPO.

Source: Reuters

OpenAI has released a new AI model focused on identifying software security vulnerabilities to a select group of users, following a similar limited release by rival Anthropic. The move signals a competitive push into cybersecurity AI tooling.

Source: bloomberg-tech

ClickHouse highlighted new product enhancements and developer-focused features aimed at supporting AI-driven application development and real-time analytics use cases. The announcements emphasize ClickHouse's push to serve modern AI workloads.

Source: TipRanks

Anthropic has turned down investor efforts to back the company at a valuation exceeding $800 billion, even as IPO speculation grows amid shifting public sentiment toward AI.

Source: bloomberg-tech

ByteDance’s cloud computing unit has made the company’s Seedance 2.0 AI video generation model available globally to enterprise customers in more than 100 countries and regions around the world—but the U.S. is not among them.It is unclear whether the cloud unit, BytePlus, has any plans to offer the model in the U.S. later. The U.S. is not included in BytePlus’s list of countries and regions for its AI model service. Seedance 2.0, released in China in February, faced legal disputes with major U.S. entertainment companies including Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Skydance and Netflix, after videos generated by the model featuring Hollywood celebrities and other copyrighted content went viral on social media

Source: TheInformation

Kraken, one of the world's oldest crypto exchanges, has confirmed it has confidentially filed for an IPO. Reports indicate the company's valuation has dropped approximately 33% compared to prior estimates.

Source: CNBC