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Anthropic just cannibalized its own flagship model — and that’s exactly the point. Claude Sonnet 4.6, released today, delivers near-Opus performance at $3/$15 per million tokens. That’s one-fifth the cost of the model it’s chasing. In benchmark after benchmark, the mid-tier model is breathing down its big brother’s neck. In some cases, it’s already ahead. This isn’t a minor version bump. It’s a price-performance earthquake. Two Models, Twelve Days, One Message Anthropic dropped Opus 4.6 on February 5th with “Agent Teams” — the ability to spin up multiple AI agents that coordinate in parallel. Think less “chatbot” and more “autonomous project team.” A million-token context window. PowerPoint integration. The works. ...

Stop watching Silicon Valley for a second. The most important AI event this week is happening in New Delhi — and the chaos tells you everything about where India actually stands in the global AI race. Every AI CEO on Earth Just Flew to Delhi Sam Altman. Sundar Pichai. Dario Amodei. Demis Hassabis. Yann LeCun. Brad Smith. Over 100 countries. Twenty heads of state. 3,250 speakers. 250,000 expected visitors across five days at Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam. ...

Spotify’s CEO told Wall Street this week that his best engineers haven’t written a single line of code since December. They just prompt AI and review what comes out. This isn’t a startup flex. This is a company with 600 million monthly users telling investors that code-writing is officially a machine’s job. And the implications go way beyond Spotify. The Supervisor Era Is Here Gustav Söderström didn’t hedge. His most senior engineers “only generate code and supervise it.” They’ve gone from architects to inspectors — and he’s thrilled about it. ...