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Anthropic’s Fable 5.1, Mythos 5.1 Cut Cache Cost 75% [2026]

Anthropic pushed out two new flagship models on September 1, 2026: Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. The headline number is a 75% cut to cache-read pricing, but the more consequential story sits underneath it, in the compute buildout that makes a model like this possible in the first place. Anthropic says its run-rate…

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Elon Musk’s heterodox robotaxi philosophy gets put to the test

Believe it or not, the Tesla Cybercab is coming. Nearly two years after Elon Musk first unveiled the gold-tinted, gull-wing door sporting, steering wheel-free two-seaters as the future of Tesla’s autonomy efforts, the company is finally putting them into operation as part of its robotaxi service in Austin, Texas. Public rides are here, and as…

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The amazing USB-C gadgets that play old Nintendo cartridges

Last week, I powered on a 26-year-old copy of Pokémon Pinball, one of the best Game Boy games ever made. My save file was no more. The Charmander I’d caught for my daughter, the high scores we’d set together… gone. Before flash memory, Nintendo cartridges used tiny watch batteries to save their games, and those…

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