Claude's new Opus 4.7 model is smarter, and its unreleased Mythos AI is reportedly used by the NSA.

Claude launched a smarter Opus 4.7 model and saw its unreleased Mythos AI reportedly used by the NSA, while Gemini expanded its Chrome feature to new regions.

Claude

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The National Security Agency (NSA) is reportedly using Claude's special Mythos Preview model, which was previously kept from public release.

The National Security Agency is said to be using Mythos Preview, Anthropic’s recently announced model that it withheld from public release, Axios reports. Anthropic announced Mythos earlier this month as a frontier model designed for cybersecurity tasks, but claimed the model was too capable of offensive cyberattacks to be releas…

Anthropic announced Mythos earlier this month as a frontier model designed for cybersecurity tasks, but claimed the model was too capable of offensive cyberattacks to be released publicly.

The Pentagon’s dispute originated when Anthropic refused to make Claude available for…

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Claude

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Claude's new Opus 4.7 model is much better at understanding and following your instructions.

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…

The Opus 4.7 model can now 'see' and understand details in much larger and clearer images, handling images more than three times bigger than before.

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You can now use Gemini directly in your Chrome browser in seven more countries, including Australia, Japan, and South Korea.

Google announced Monday that it’s making its Gemini in Chrome feature available in seven new markets, including Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. The company has been integrating AI and Gemini into Chrome in more ways since last year through a floating window.

Earlier this year, the company introduced a sidebar-based assistant that would help users answer questions across tabs and utilize the Personal Intelligence feature of Gemini, which lets users connect to services like Gmail and Google Phot…

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Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Configurable control: Enable/disable and override media types as needed New max_tokens parameter: Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs.

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