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The easiest way to build a local dev toolbox with one file

Keep your host free from lingering services and mismatched versions. Run your dev stack in isolation and rebuild it when ...
NBC Los Angeles

Magnitude-3.6 earthquake shakes parts of Riverside County

A preliminary magnitude-3.6 earthquake was reported late Tuesday morning near Banning in Riverside County. Shaking was reported in Banning, Lake Elsinore, San jacinta, Yucaipa, Hemet, Palm Springs and ...
Mashable

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6: Benchmark performance, how to try it

Claude Sonnet 2.6 is out now. Here's what you need to know. Credit: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images Anthropic has just released its latest Large Language Model (LLM), Claude Sonnett 4.6. The ...
Mashable

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro: Benchmark performance, how to try it

Google released its latest core reasoning model, Gemini 3.1 Pro, on Thursday. Google says that Gemini 3.1 Pro achieved twice the verified performance of 3 Pro on ARC-AGI-2, a popular benchmark that ...
TechCrunch

Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic has released a new version of its midsized Sonnet model, keeping pace with the company’s four-month update cycle. In a post announcing the new model, Anthropic emphasized improvements in ...
Ars Technica

Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it’s better at complex problem-solving

Another day, another Google AI model. Google has really been pumping out new AI tools lately, having just released Gemini 3 in November. Today, it’s bumping the flagship model to version 3.1. The new ...
MacRumors

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Brings Improved Coding, Computer Use, and Office Tasks

Anthropic today updated its Sonnet model to version 4.6, and the company says it is the most capable Sonnet model to date with upgrades across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent ...
9to5Mac

Claude Sonnet 4.6 model brings ‘much-improved coding skills’ and upgraded free tier

Anthropic just released the second Claude model upgrade this month. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the first upgrade to Anthropic’s medium-sized AI model since version 4.5 arrived in September 2025. Anthropic ...
scmp.com

Alibaba unveils Qwen-3.5, sharpening global race to spread AI models

Alibaba Cloud has unveiled its next-generation open artificial intelligence model, Qwen-3.5, in a move set to have major implications for the global AI race between China and the US. The ...
Forbes

Software Stocks—Oracle, Intuit, More—Fall As Anthropic’s Latest Claude Model Fuels AI Concerns

Several software stocks were on the decline Tuesday after Anthropic released the latest iteration of its Claude AI model, the Google- and Amazon-backed startup’s second major release in as many weeks, ...
SiliconANGLE

Anthropic debuts Sonnet 4.6, a highly capable creative and coding AI model

Anthropic PBC upgraded its Claude Sonnet model to version 4.6 today, adding stronger computer-use skills, long-context reasoning, agent planning and improved performance for knowledge work and design.