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Sakana Fugu Launches With 93.2 LiveCodeBench Score After Claude Ban

Sakana Fugu Launches With 93.2 LiveCodeBench Score After Claude Ban

Sakana AI released Fugu just days after Anthropic said a US directive forced it to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The Tokyo startup says Fugu Ultra beat Fable on LiveCodeBench, matched Mythos on GPQA-D and sells access through one OpenAI-compatible API. Pricing starts at $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens, but the launch leaves one question open for enterprise buyers: how much control do they gain when the coordinator stays hidden?

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GLM-5.2 Edges Kimi K2.7 Code in Early Coding Tests
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GLM-5.2 Edges Kimi K2.7 Code in Early Coding Tests

Five reviewers ran GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.7 Code head-to-head on real coding tasks. GLM-5.2 came out with a narrow edge on design, cost, and code that held up to a second look.

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The Best GitHub Tools for Building Claude Code Skills
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The Best GitHub Tools for Building Claude Code Skills

A Claude Code skill is just a folder with a SKILL.md file, but the GitHub tooling around it has split into distinct jobs. anthropics/skills and skill-creator handle authoring and testing, claude-plugins-official handles versioned distribution, runkids/skillshare syncs one library across Codex and OpenCode, and mattpocock/skills packages engineering-process patterns. Start local, and review any third-party skill like a code dependency before install.

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GLM-5.2 Becomes the Top Open-Weight Model on Artificial Analysis
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GLM-5.2 Becomes the Top Open-Weight Model on Artificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis named Z.ai's GLM-5.2 the top open-weight model on its Intelligence Index, scoring 51 to lead every open peer. Independent reviewers clocked it near Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on build tasks at roughly five times lower cost, though the model burns 43,000 output tokens per benchmark task. GLM-5.2 ships under an MIT license with a 1-million-token context window and open weights on Hugging Face.

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AI Agent Skill Managers Are a Supply-Chain Surface Most of Them Don't Guard

Three open-source managers for AI agent skills each hit 2,000 GitHub stars in months. But a skill is natural-language intent an agent runs with full file and shell access, and only one of the three scans skill files for attacks before an agent reads them.

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A Free App From Berlin Is Out-Engineering the $81 Million Dictation Leader

Voice dictation became the rare AI tool that changed how people write. As the speech models commoditize, the fight has moved to the layer above them, where a free app built by a developer who cannot type competes with the $81 million leader and the operating systems closing in.

Europe's Real Bargaining Power Over America Sits Upstream of the AI Race
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Europe's Real Bargaining Power Over America Sits Upstream of the AI Race

A U.S. export order blacked out Anthropic's two most capable models worldwide on June 12, a live demonstration of frontier-AI dependence. But Europe's durable bargaining power lies elsewhere, in the lithography, optics and industrial chips that even Silicon Valley cannot build without it.

On June 12, a single U.S. export order switched off Anthropic's two most capable AI models worldwide, and the European Union, which had just won access, lost it overnight. A viral Brussels scenario pegs Europe at 5% of the world's AI compute against America's 80%. But that panic treats dependence as one wall when it is really a stack of separate exposures, some hard, some overstated, and one that runs the other way. Here is the honest map of what Europe depends on, and where it still sets the te

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