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May 5, 2026

Claude gets smarter with better instructions and sharper vision

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Claude's new Opus 4.7 model is here with improved instruction following and better image understand… Plus, Cerebras names on its website a long list of angel…

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Claude Opus 4.7 is now much better at following your instructions, giving you more accurate results.

Instruction following . Opus 4.7 is substantially better at following instructions. Interestingly, this means that prompts written for earlier models can sometimes now produce unexpected results: where previous models interpreted instructi… | Improved multimodal support . Opus 4.7 has better vision for high-resolution images: it can accept images up to 2,576 pixels on the long edge (~3.75 megapixels), more than thre… Instruction following . Opus 4.7 is substantially better at following instructions. Interestingly, this means that prompts written for earlier models can sometimes now produce unexpected results: where previous models interpreted instructi… Improved multimodal support . Opus 4.7 has better vision for high-resolution images: it can accept images up to 2,576 pixels on the long edge (~3.75 megapixels), more than three times as many as prior Claude models. This opens up a wealth… Real-world work . As well as its state-of-the-art score on the Finance Agent evaluation (see………

Source · Introducing Claude Opus 4.7
Source · Introducing Claude Opus 4.7
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OpenAI's cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO | TechCrunch

Plus, Cerebras names on its website a long list of angel investors, too. These include OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI founder and president Greg Brockman, former OpenAI chief scientist (now founder of his own AI startup) Ilya Su… | That deal never happened, but OpenAI did become one of Cerebras’ largest customers. In fact, in December, OpenAI loaned Cerebras $1 billion, secured by warrants that allo… Plus, Cerebras names on its website a long list of angel investors, too. These include OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI founder and president Greg Brockman, former OpenAI chief scientist (now founder of his own AI startup) Ilya Su… That deal never happened, but OpenAI did become one of Cerebras’ largest customers. In fact, in December, OpenAI loaned Cerebras $1 billion, secured by warrants that allow OpenAI to buy over 33 million shares, the S-1 discloses. So w… A year later, Cerebras sought to raise more cash. In September, it raised $1.1 billion at an…

Source · OpenAI's cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO | TechCrunch
Source · OpenAI's cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO | TechCrunch

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OpenAI and PwC are partnering to help enterprises use AI agents to automate finance workflows, improve forecasting, strengthen controls, and modernize the CFO function.

OpenAI and PwC are partnering to help enterprises use AI agents to automate finance workflows, improve forecasting, strengthen controls, and modernize the CFO function. Plus, Cerebras names on its website a long list of angel investors, too. These include OpenAI found…

Source · OpenAI and PwC collaborate to reimagine the office of the CFO
Source · OpenAI and PwC collaborate to reimagine the office of the CFO

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Russell signed an open letter in March 2023 calling for a six-month pause in AI research. In a sign of the contradictions here, Musk also signed the same letter, even as he was launching xAI, his own for-profit AI lab.

Russell signed an open letter in March 2023 calling for a six-month pause in AI research. In a sign of the contradictions here, Musk also signed the same letter, even as he was launching xAI, his own for-profit AI lab. | From the outside, a clear issue here is the growing realization inside OpenAI after its founding that the organization simply needed more compute spend if it was to succeed. That money could only co… Russell signed an open letter in March 2023 calling for a six-month pause in AI research. In a sign of the contradictions here, Musk also signed the same letter, even as he was launching xAI, his own for-profit AI lab. From the outside, a clear issue here is the growing realization inside OpenAI after its founding that the organization simply needed more compute spend if it was to succeed. That money could only come from for-profit investors. The foundin… Now, both sides of the case are asking the court to do just that: take part of Altman’s and Musk’s…

Source · Elon Musk's only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race | TechCrunch
Source · Elon Musk's only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race | TechCrunch