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Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5: Frontier AI at Half Fable 5’s Price With Effort Toggle

25 July 2026

GigaNectar Team

AWS Outages Hit DoorDash, Reddit, Apple Pay: Two July 2026 Incidents Expose Concentration Risk

Claude Opus 5 Now Available in GitHub Copilot: Advanced AI for Complex Code Tasks

Verizon Signs $1 Billion Dark Fiber Deal With Google for AI Data Centers

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8: New Wide-Screen Design, $1,900 Price, August Release

Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5: Frontier AI at Half Fable 5’s Price With Effort Toggle

25 July 2026

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026: $5/$25 per-token pricing (half Fable 5 cost), 1M context window, effort toggle feature, state-of-the-art coding/knowledge-work benchmarks, available via API and GitHub Copilot.

GitHub Copilot interface showing Claude Opus 5 available as a model selection option alongside other AI models, illustrating the expanded choice for developers

Claude Opus 5 Now Available in GitHub Copilot: Advanced AI for Complex Code Tasks

25 July 2026

Verizon Signs $1 Billion Dark Fiber Deal With Google for AI Data Centers

25 July 2026

Google Gemini app promotional hero image showing the Gemini interface on a mobile device with AI-powered writing and idea generation features

Google Expands Gemini Spark AI to Pro Users at $20/Month: What This Means

25 July 2026

Amazon Quietly Cuts Jobs in Its AGI Unit Even as It Pours $200 Billion Into AI Infrastructure

23 July 2026

A conceptual illustration of an AI system breaking out of a digital barrier, symbolizing the sandbox escape and unauthorized hacking incident described in the article.

OpenAI’s AI Models Broke Free From Human Control, Hacked Hugging Face — ‘A Warning Shot’

23 July 2026

Hardware

Sony FX5 Launches at $4,898 With 5K Open Gate, Internal X-OCN RAW and Three Base ISOs — Ships August

Hardware News Technology

Amd Ships Official Fsr 4.1 Upscaling For Radeon Rx 7000 Rdna 3 Gpus, A Month Ahead Of Schedule

AI Hardware News Technology

Microsoft MAI Models at Build 2026 Beat GPT-5.5 at 10× Lower Cost as Nadella Says “The Time Has Come”

Robotics

Representative Image. Kawasaki Hydrogen Robot. Photo Source: Kawasaki Group Channel

News, Robotics, Technology

Kawasaki Hydrogen Robot CORLEO Uses AI and Legs to Go Where ATVs Stall

Robotics

Chinese Company Unitree B2-W First Rideable Robot Dog: 120kg Load, Climbs Waterfalls, 50km Range

Robotics

Robot RAIBO 2 Finishes 42 km Marathon in 4 Hours, Surpassing Human Averages on a Single Charge

News, Robotics

Rock-Paper-Scissors Bot Rocky Defies Human Wins in Mark Rober’s $10,000 Gaming Challenge

News, Robotics, Technology

Xpeng Unveils Iron: 178 cm, 70 kg Humanoid Robot with 40-Core AI Chip and 200 Degrees of Freedom

Torso by Clone | Bimanual Android with Artificial Muscles. Photo Source: Clone (YouTube)

News, Robotics, Technology

Robot with Water-Powered Muscles: Clone Robotics’ Humanoid Torso Uses AI-Driven Hydraulics for Realistic Movement in Medical and Industrial Applications

Hardware News Technology

Nvidia RTX Spark Lands and Jensen Huang Calls Marvell the “Next Trillion-Dollar Company” at Computex 2026

Business Hardware News Technology

Nvidia “Largely Conceded” China’s AI Chip Market to Huawei as H200 Deals Stall and AMD Moves In

Hardware News

Motherboard Sales Drop Up to 37% as AI Drains RAM Supply — Asus, ASRock, Gigabyte and MSI Slash 2026 Targets

Hardware News Technology

Nvidia RTX 60 Series Leak: 2× Path Tracing, 16 GB on RTX 6070, Rubin 3nm — But Not Before 2027

Gadgets

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip 8 displayed together at Galaxy Unpacked July 2026 in London.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8: New Wide-Screen Design, $1,900 Price, August Release

GigaNectar Team

25 July 2026

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 launches with revolutionary 4:3 wide-screen design, reduced crease, IP48 rating, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and $1,900 price starting August 5, 2026.

Sony FX5 full-frame cinema camera with XLR handle unit, shown in a front-three-quarter view against a light background

Sony FX5 Launches at $4,898 With 5K Open Gate, Internal X-OCN RAW and Three Base ISOs — Ships August

GigaNectar Team

24 July 2026

Sony’s FX5 Cinema Line camera arrives at $4,898 with 5K Open Gate recording, internal 16-bit X-OCN RAW, and 15+ stops dynamic range. Ships mid-August 2026 with AI-powered BIONZ XR2 processor.

Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra2 with 5,000-nit display and titanium case License: All rights reserved

Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra2 Arrives at $699 With 5,000-Nit Screen and Scuba Diving Support

GigaNectar Team

24 July 2026

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Ultra2 lands at $699 with a 5,000-nit display, dive computer features and the first Snapdragon Wear Elite chip in a Galaxy Watch. Watch9 starts at $379.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 foldable smartphones displayed side by side, showcasing their folded and unfolded form factors.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Fold8 and Flip8 Now Official: Prices Start at $1,199 With Bigger Batteries

GigaNectar Team

24 July 2026

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra, Fold8 and Flip8 are official — starting at $2,099, $1,899 and $1,199. Pre-orders open now with August 7 availability. All three cost $100 more than last year.