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Rail operator issues compensation update after recent travel chaos in Essex
Commuters faced hours of travel chaos after a major rail fault caused delays and cancellations across the county. The disruption was first reported in the afternoon on Wednesday, April 15 on routes connecting Essex to London and lasted late into the night, affecting commuters from London Liverpool Street all over Essex. The network operator has issued an apology to affected customers. A spokesperson on behalf of Greater Anglia and Network Rail Anglia said: "Services on the Great Eastern Main Line were severely disrupted on Wednesday evening due to a fault with the overhead power lines between Shenfield and Chelmsford. "Engineers worked through the night to repair the fault and safely restore the railway. "We know this caused significant disruption for customers, including at Colchester, and we are sorry to everyone affected. "During the disruption, tickets were accepted on alternative routes, including the Elizabeth Line between Liverpool Street and Shenfield, and c2c services between Fenchurch Street and Southend Central, to help people complete their journeys. "Customers delayed by more than 15 minutes can claim compensation through Delay Repay."
Claude Design: 3 ways Anthropic is sharpening Opus 4.7 against GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro
Anthropic's latest release is not just another model update; it is a deliberate move to redraw the competitive map in agentic software work. In Claude Design, the company is leaning on coding, long-horizon autonomy, and sharper visual handling to make Opus 4. 7 look less like a routine upgrade and more like a production tool built for difficult jobs. The timing matters: the model arrives just two months after Opus 4. 6, with the same API price and a clear push to prove that capability gains can still arrive without higher costs. Why Claude Design matters now The immediate significance is measurable. On SWE-bench Pro, the benchmark tied to agentic coding, Opus 4. 7 reaches 64. 3 percent, compared with 53. 4 percent for Opus 4. 6, 57. 7 percent for GPT-5. 4, and 54. 2 percent for Gemini 3. 1 Pro. On SWE-bench Verified, the score climbs to 87. 6 percent. Those numbers do more than signal progress; they frame Anthropic's current strategy as a direct contest over who can deliver reliable software work with minimal supervision. The company is also keeping access broad. Opus 4. 7 is available to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, as well as through the API, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. Its pricing remains unchanged at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. That stability matters because the model's pitch is not only performance, but improved efficiency at the same cost base. What lies beneath the benchmark gains The deeper story is about how Anthropic is defining useful intelligence. Claude Design around Opus 4. 7 centers on long, complex tasks that require the model to keep its coherence across an entire one-million-token context window. The system auto-checks its outputs before handing control back, and it is meant to handle multi-session projects from start to finish with less intervention. That shift has ripple effects beyond raw coding. Opus 4. 7 processes images at a resolution three times higher than Opus 4. 6, which directly improves the quality of generated interfaces, slides, and documents. The API also introduces a new effort tier, called "xhigh, " positioned between "high" and "max, " giving developers finer control over the trade-off between reasoning depth and latency. The model's more literal instruction-following is equally important. Anthropic is effectively signaling that existing prompts may need revisiting, because instructions that worked with Opus 4. 6 may not map neatly onto the new behavior. In other words, the upgrade is not only technical; it also changes how teams will have to work with the system. Expert perspectives and the cyber guardrails Anthropic is also drawing a line between its commercial product and a more restricted frontier model. Claude Mythos Preview, kept for a limited group of cybersecurity partners under Project Glasswing, posts 77. 8 percent on SWE-bench Pro, which means Opus 4. 7 is not the most powerful model in the company's portfolio. That distinction suggests a two-track strategy: Opus for broad deployment, Mythos for the edge cases. The cyber angle is not incidental. Opus 4. 7 is described as the first Anthropic model to integrate cybersecurity elements from Project Glasswing, and it includes limited capabilities that detect and block requests tied to prohibited or high-risk cyber uses. The model also benefits from safeguards designed to constrain harmful use while preserving its value for legitimate software work. That architecture echoes the broader logic of the release: widen commercial usefulness while tightening controls. The result is a model that is being positioned for sustained deployment, not experimental novelty. Regional and global impact on AI competition In a market where benchmark leadership can shift quickly, Opus 4. 7 matters because it strengthens Anthropic's case in three distinct arenas: agentic coding, high-resolution visual tasks, and controlled long-session work. On GPQA Diamond, the model reaches 94. 2 percent, nearly matching GPT-5. 4 Pro at 94. 4 percent, which reinforces the sense that competition is now spread across multiple dimensions rather than one single score. For developers and enterprise teams, the practical impact is immediate. Better performance on autonomous coding can shorten review cycles; higher-resolution image handling can reduce friction in interface generation and document workflows; and the new "xhigh" tier may help teams tune inference more precisely. In the broader global market, that combination raises expectations for what a frontier model should deliver at a fixed price point. Claude Design therefore reads less like branding and more like a product philosophy: improve the model where work is hardest, hold the price steady, and make the controls finer. The open question is whether rivals will answer with similar gains in reliability, or whether this round has already shifted the terms of the race.
Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals - RocketNews
Anthropic announced on Friday that it's launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude. The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily. With Claude Design, users describe what they want, and Claude will create an initial version. From there, users can refine the visuals with direct edits or requests. For example, you could ask Claude to "prototype a serene mobile meditation app. It should have calming typography, subtle nature-inspired colors, and a clean layout." You could then tweak the colors, the size of the typography, or ask Claude to add a dark mode toggle. Image Credits:Anthropic While Claude Design may initially seem like it's looking to compete with popular design app Canva, which has just expanded its own AI capabilities, Anthropic told TechCrunch that it's intended to complement it rather than replace it. The company said its new product is built for people who aren't starting from a design tool and need to get from an idea to something visual quickly. Once teams create presentation decks or prototypes, they can export them as PDFs, URLs, PPTX files, or send them to Canva. Once in Canva, they are fully editable and collaborative, Anthropic says. Claude Design can also apply a team's design system to every project it creates so that the results are consistent with the company's overall visual style. Anthropic says Claude Design is able to do this by reading a company's codebase and design files. Additionally, teams can refine these components and maintain more than one design system. Image Credits:Anthropic The new product is powered by Claude Opus 4.7 and is available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers. The launch highlights Anthropic's ongoing push into the enterprise and prosumer categories, as competition intensifies around AI workplace tools. In January, Anthropic rolled out Claude Cowork, an agentic assistant built for complex tasks. A few weeks later, the company brought agentic plug-ins to Cowork that are designed to automate specialized tasks within a company's various departments. Today's announcement comes a few days after Bloomberg reported that VCs have been offering the company a preemptive funding round that would value it at $800 billion or more, which would almost match or even surpass its rival OpenAI. But so far, Anthropic isn't interested in the latest offers, according to the report. ...
Should my enterprise AI agent do that? NanoClaw and Vercel launch easier agentic policy setting and approval dialogs across 15 messaging apps - RocketNews
For the past year, early adopters of autonomous AI agents have been forced to play a murky game of chance: keep the agent in a useless sandbox or give it the keys to the kingdom and hope it doesn't hallucinate a catastrophic "delete all" command.To unlock the true utility of an agent -- scheduling meetings, triaging emails, or managing cloud infrastructure -- users have had to grant these models raw API keys and broad permissions, raising the risk of their systems being disrupted by an accidental agent mistake. That tradeoff ends today. The creators of the open source sandboxed NanoClaw agent framework -- now known under their new private startup named NanoCo -- have announced a landmark partnership with Vercel and OneCLI to introduce a standardized, infrastructure-level approval system. By integrating Vercel's Chat SDK and OneCLI's open source credentials vault, NanoClaw 2.0 ensures that no sensitive action occurs without explicit human consent, delivered natively through the messaging apps where users already live.The specific use cases that stand to benefit most are those involving high-consequence "write" actions. That is, in DevOps, an agent could propose a cloud infrastructure change that only goes live once a senior engineer taps "Approve" in Slack. For finance teams, an agent could prepare batch payments or invoice triaging, with the final disbursement requiring a human signature via a WhatsApp card. Technology: security by isolationThe fundamental shift in NanoClaw 2.0 is the move away from "application-level" security to "infrastructure-level" enforcement. In traditional agent frameworks, the model itself is often responsible for asking for permission -- a flow that Gavriel Cohen, co-founder of NanoCo, describes as inherently flawed."The agent could potentially be malicious or compromised," ...
Anthropic just launched Claude Design, an AI tool that turns prompts into prototypes and challenges Figma - RocketNews
Anthropic today launched Claude Design, a new product from its Anthropic Labs division that allows users to create polished visual work -- designs, interactive prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, and marketing collateral -- through conversational prompts and fine-grained editing controls. The release, available immediately in research preview to all paid Claude subscribers, is the company's most aggressive expansion beyond its core language model business and into the application layer that has historically belonged to companies like Figma, Adobe, and Canva.Claude Design is powered by Claude Opus 4.7, Anthropic's most capable generally available vision model, which the company also released today. Anthropic says it is rolling access out gradually throughout the day to Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers.The simultaneous launches mark a watershed for Anthropic, whose ambitions now visibly extend from foundation model provider to full-stack product company -- one that wants to own the arc from a rough idea to a shipped product. The timing is also significant: Anthropic hit roughly $20 billion in annualized revenue in early March 2026, according to Bloomberg, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025 -- and surpassed $30 billion by early April 2026. The company is in early talks with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley about a potential IPO that could come as early as October 2026.How Claude Design turns a text prompt into a working prototypeThe product follows a workflow that Anthropic has designed to feel like a natural creative conversation. Users describe what they need, and Claude generates a first version. From there, refinement happens through a combination of channels: chat-based conversation, inline comments on specific elements, direct text editing, and custom adjustment sliders that Claude itself generates to let users tweak spacing, color, and layout in real time.During onboarding, Claude reads a team's codebase and design files and builds a design system -- colors, typography, and components -- that it automatically applies to every subsequent project. Teams can refine the s ...
Tech stocks today: Tech sector trades at record highs, Figma stock slides after Anthropic releases Claude Design
Tech stocks rose to record highs on Friday as hopes emerged that the war in Iran and the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz may be easing. A resurgence in tech stocks and the artificial intelligence trade helped push the major indexes to all-time highs to end the week. In individual names, Tesla's (TSLA) stock was poised to end an eight-week losing streak after CEO Elon Musk teased the company's AI5 chip. AMD (AMD) and other AI chipmakers benefited from the bullish demand signal sent by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM) this week. TSMC's sizable 58% increase in first quarter profits sent a strong signal that AI demand remains robust. Meanwhile, Anthropic released its latest AI model -- Claude Opus 4.7 -- which the startup said makes improvements "on the most difficult tasks." Opus 4.7 isn't Anthropic's most powerful model, however. That would be its Mythos model, which is currently undergoing testing by a limited number of users.
Canva and Anthropic launch Claude Design for AI-powered visual creation
In short: Canva and Anthropic have launched Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product powered by Claude Opus 4.7 that uses Canva's Design Engine to generate fully editable, on-brand visuals from text descriptions. The announcement coincides with Canva AI 2.0, which the company calls its biggest product launch ever, introducing conversational design, agentic orchestration, and connectors to Slack, Gmail, Zoom, and HubSpot. Canva and Anthropic have deepened a two-year partnership with a product that sits at the intersection of their respective ambitions: Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs feature powered by Claude Opus 4.7 that uses Canva's Design Engine and Visual Suite to let users go from a text description to a fully editable, on-brand visual without opening Canva at all. The announcement, timed to coincide with Canva's launch of Canva AI 2.0 at its Create event in Los Angeles, positions Canva as the design infrastructure layer for conversational AI. Claude Design is available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers. Designs can be exported as PDFs, URLs, or PowerPoint files, or sent directly to Canva where they become fully editable in the drag-and-drop editor. Claude Design is built for people who need to produce something visual but do not think of themselves as designers: founders building pitch decks, product managers mocking up interfaces, marketing teams creating one-pagers. A user describes what they want in a Claude conversation, and the system generates a designed output that applies structure, layout, and brand elements from the start. The enterprise capability is the most commercially significant piece. Claude Design can read a company's codebase and design files to apply its design system to every project automatically. Fonts, colours, layout standards, and brand governance rules are maintained without manual enforcement. For organisations that spend significant effort policing brand consistency across distributed teams, this is the feature that justifies the integration. Canva is also introducing HTML importing, which lets users bring interactive content generated in Claude or other tools into the Canva editor for refinement and publishing. The feature bridges the gap between AI-generated outputs, which are typically code or static images, and the collaborative editing environment that Canva's 265 million monthly active users already work in. The Anthropic collaboration is part of a broader transformation that Canva unveiled on 16 April, which the company described as "the biggest product launch in our history." Canva AI 2.0 marks a strategic shift from a design platform with AI tools to what Canva calls an AI platform with design tools. The update introduces conversational design, where users describe an idea and receive a fully editable output; agentic orchestration, where a single prompt generates an entire campaign across multiple formats; and object-based intelligence, where changes to one element do not affect the rest of the design. These are not incremental features. They represent an architectural rethink of how Canva's platform works. Six new intelligent workflows connect Canva to external tools: Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, Notion, Zoom, and HubSpot. Canva AI can now generate meeting summaries from Zoom transcripts, turn customer emails into personalised sales materials, and build company newsletters from Slack activity. The connectors turn Canva from a design tool into something closer to an automated content production system that draws on an organisation's existing communications and data. Canva AI 2.0 is launching as a research preview, initially rolling out to the first one million users who discover it on the Canva homepage, with broader availability in the coming weeks. The Canva-Anthropic relationship has been building for two years. Canva launched a Canva MCP for Claude in July 2025, and millions of users have since created Canva designs from within Claude conversations. In January 2026, the integration expanded to support on-brand design generation with automatic application of corporate brand rules. Claude Design is the next step: a dedicated product surface rather than a connector. For Anthropic, the partnership gives Claude a visual output capability that its text-native interface otherwise lacks. Claude can reason, code, and analyse, but until now it could not produce designed visual content that non-technical users would consider finished. Canva's Design Engine provides that layer, making Claude useful for a category of work, presentations, social media assets, marketing materials, that represents a significant portion of enterprise knowledge work. For Canva, the partnership positions it as the default design backend for conversational AI. If Claude Design succeeds, every visual created through Claude becomes a Canva document, funnelling users into Canva's ecosystem for editing, collaboration, and publishing. It is the same strategy that made Canva dominant in browser-based design: be the tool that other tools export to. Canva's AI ambitions are backed by strong commercial performance. The company reached $3.5 billion in annual revenue in 2025, up from an estimated $2.8 billion the year before. Monthly active users grew from 180 million to 265 million, with more than 31 million paid subscribers. Its valuation reached $42 billion in an August 2025 employee stock sale, up from $32 billion in October 2024. The Anthropic partnership sits within a broader acquisition and integration strategy. Canva acquired Simtheory, an agentic AI infrastructure company, and Ortto, a marketing automation platform, in a twin deal aimed at transforming Canva from a design tool into an end-to-end work platform. The Claude Design integration extends this logic: design becomes a capability that lives inside other tools rather than a standalone activity. The risk for Canva is that AI-native design tools could eventually bypass it entirely. If Claude or GPT-5 can generate publication-ready visuals without a design engine intermediary, Canva's role as the editing and collaboration layer becomes less essential. The company is betting that design is complex enough, and brand governance important enough, that a dedicated design platform will remain necessary even as AI handles more of the creative generation. The Anthropic partnership is a hedge: by embedding Canva inside Claude, the company ensures that even if users start their design work in a conversational AI interface, they end it in Canva. Whether that positioning holds depends on how quickly AI-generated design quality improves. For now, the outputs from Claude Design are good enough for internal presentations and quick mockups but still require human refinement for anything production-grade. That gap is Canva's opportunity. The question is how long it lasts.
SpaceX, we have a problem
What the fuckity fuck is going to happen when we IPO SpaceX in late June? (Image: Getty) "Houston, we have a problem," is one of the world's most misquoted quotes. What was actually said almost 46 years ago to the day (April 13, 1970) was in fact: "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here." The whole thing was related to the explosion of an oxygen tank on the Apollo 13 mission, some 200,000 miles from Earth. The moon landing was aborted, and the team scrambled back to Earth. The end.A similar space problem What the fuckity fuck is going to happen when we IPO SpaceX in la...
Europe's Jet Fuel Clock Ticks Down: Six Weeks to Chaos Amid Iran War Blockade
Europe stares down a fuel abyss. Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, laid it bare in a Paris interview: "In Europe, we have maybe six weeks or so (of) jet fuel left." Without the Strait of Hormuz reopening, flights from city A to city B vanish soon. That's the stark warning from April 16, as reported by the Associated Press. The strait -- chokepoint for 35% of global crude -- sits crippled by the Iran war. Iranian ports and waters block tankers. Minesweeping drags on. International lanes technically open, but no one's risking it. Middle East supplied 75% of Europe's net jet fuel imports. Now? Zilch. Stocks dwindle faster than they refill. Normally, the EU holds 40 days' worth. But consumption outpaces inflows. By day 43 without rationing, supplies hit 25% of needs. Europe's just-in-time model -- lean inventories, no buffers -- bites hard. Last year, four refineries shuttered, slashing 400,000 barrels a day. Green policies prioritized over resilience. Post-Ukraine, reliance swung to Gulf suppliers. No backups built. Airports sounded alarms first. Airports Council International Europe (ACI) wrote EU commissioners on April 9: "If the passage through the Strait of Hormuz does not resume in any significant and stable way within the next three weeks, systemic jet fuel shortage is set to become a reality for the EU." Olivier Jankovec, ACI director-general, flagged harsh economic hits, per Reuters. Airlines scramble. Airlines for Europe (A4E) demands EU action: monitor supplies, suspend aviation carbon taxes, joint kerosene buys. Ryanair sees risks at some airports by May-June if the strait stays shut. Lufthansa's Grazia Vittadini notes suppliers balk at forecasts beyond one month, as covered by Reuters. EasyJet books lag; deeper losses loom from fuel costs. Prices scream shortage. European jet/kerosene cracked to all-time highs near $1,800 a ton in March, now $1,450. ARA hub stocks -- Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp -- plunge 8% last week to 646,000 tons, lowest since 2023. Imports crater: March at 437,000 bpd (down 13% from 2025 average), April headed to 275,000 bpd, via Kpler data in Reuters. Birol calls it the largest energy crisis ever. Global ripples: petrol, gas, electricity prices spike. Developing nations in Asia, Africa, Latin America suffer most. No one's immune. Growth stalls. Inflation flares. The longer the blockade, the deeper the pain. IEA reports some European countries below 20 days' coverage -- lowest since 2020. Dip under 23 days? Physical shortages trigger cancellations. Workarounds falter. US oil ramps sales, but refining mismatches hinder quick fixes -- America exports light sweet, imports heavy sour. Nigeria's Dangote refinery, at full tilt, ships more jet to Europe, filling gaps profitably, per Bloomberg. Still, not enough. Asia starves worse; airlines like United trim there already. EU preps plans. Maximize refineries. No shortages yet, says the Commission, but jet fuel tops concerns. UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves claims confidence in supplies, though IEA clocks six weeks continent-wide, as in BBC. Virgin Atlantic's Corneel Koster secures six weeks, then murk. TotalEnergies warns of issues in weeks or months. Summer peak looms. Peak demand hits 1.4 million bpd EU/UK in August. Gulf covered 300,000 bpd. Rationing? Politically toxic -- pre-sold tickets, vacation dreams. Formula 1 GPs already axed. Food costs rise next year from logistics. And escalation risks. Mines could seal Suez too. Nuclear whispers. Iran holds leverage without full strait closure. Birol: Even post-reopen, new tankers take five-six weeks. Depletion accelerates now. Markets price it in. Airlines ground fleets -- Lufthansa retires planes. Nigerian carriers threaten halts. Wall Street Journal notes Europe has "roughly six weeks left," flight cuts imminent, echoing WSJ. CNBC warns systemic cuts by May-June. Europe's aviation nerve exposed. Years of de-risking Russia, chasing net-zero, left veins thin. War tests the arteries. Six weeks. Tick-tock.
Claude Opus 4.7: Everything You Need to Know About Anthropic's Latest AI Model | Knowledge Hub Media
Claude Opus 4.7 is the newest and most capable publicly available AI model from Anthropic, released on April 16, 2026. It's a direct upgrade to its predecessor, Opus 4.6, and it brings significant improvements in software engineering, agentic reasoning, visual understanding, and long-running task performance. While Anthropic's even more powerful Claude Mythos Preview model exists behind closed doors, Opus 4.7 represents the cutting edge of what developers and everyday users can actually get their hands on today. In this article, we'll discuss what makes Claude Opus 4.7 a meaningful step forward, how it stacks up against competitors like OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro, what new features it introduces, and what its release signals about the broader direction of AI development. Whether you're a developer evaluating your next model upgrade or simply curious about the state of the art, this breakdown covers everything you need to know. Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model as of April 2026. It delivers major gains in coding benchmarks, introduces a new "xhigh" reasoning effort level, triples the supported image resolution, and ships with built-in cybersecurity safeguards tied to Anthropic's Project Glasswing initiative. Pricing remains unchanged from Opus 4.6 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. Who should read this: Software engineers, AI product builders, enterprise decision-makers, and AI enthusiasts. The headline story of Opus 4.7 is its performance on coding benchmarks. According to Anthropic's launch blog post, the model scores 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified (up from 80.8% on Opus 4.6) and 64.3% on SWE-bench Pro (up from 53.4%). That SWE-bench Pro jump of nearly 11 percentage points in a single release is especially notable because it measures harder, multi-language engineering tasks that are more representative of real-world production work. On CursorBench, which evaluates autonomous coding quality inside the popular Cursor editor, Opus 4.7 scored 70%, up from 58% on its predecessor. As Cursor Co-Founder and CEO Michael Truell noted in Anthropic's announcement, the model represents "a meaningful jump in capabilities" with "more creative reasoning." Rakuten, another early-access partner, reported that Opus 4.7 resolved three times more production tasks compared to Opus 4.6. Users have also reported that Opus 4.7 follows instructions more literally than previous models. Anthropic itself flags this as both a strength and a migration consideration: prompts that relied on the model loosely interpreting vague instructions may now produce different results because Opus 4.7 takes wording more precisely at face value. Beyond raw benchmarks, Opus 4.7 introduces several practical features aimed at giving developers finer control over how the model operates. The most prominent addition is the new xhigh effort level, which sits between the existing high and max settings. As Axios reported, Anthropic described xhigh as giving users "finer control over the tradeoff between reasoning and latency on hard problems." Claude Code, Anthropic's command-line coding agent, now defaults to xhigh for all plans. Anthropic is also beta-testing a feature called "task budgets" that lets developers set limits on how much reasoning the model does during longer tasks. On the vision front, Opus 4.7 supports images up to 2,576 pixels on the long edge, roughly 3.75 megapixels. That's more than three times the resolution supported by prior Claude models. According to Anthropic's announcement, early-access partner Solve Intelligence highlighted how the higher resolution is helping them build better tools for interpreting technical diagrams and chemical structures in life sciences patent work. Perhaps the most consequential behavioral change is self-verification. Opus 4.7 actively checks its own work before declaring a task complete. It writes tests, runs sanity checks, and inspects its output. According to Notion AI Lead Sarah Sachs, this kind of reliability improvement is what "makes Notion Agent feel like a true teammate." Early-access partner Intuit described the model as "catching its own logical faults during the planning phase." Opus 4.7's release comes at a moment when the race among frontier AI models is tighter than ever. According to a review from The Next Web, Opus 4.7 leads GPT-5.4 on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs. 57.7%) and on CursorBench (70% vs. lower scores from competitors). However, on graduate-level reasoning (GPQA Diamond), all three frontier models have essentially converged around 94%, suggesting that the competitive differentiation has shifted from raw reasoning to applied, multi-step task performance. There's one notable weakness. On BrowseComp, a benchmark that evaluates web research and information synthesis, Opus 4.7 scored 79.3%, trailing GPT-5.4 Pro's 89.3% and Gemini 3.1 Pro's 85.9%. For teams building agents that rely heavily on real-time web retrieval, this is worth paying attention to. On pricing, Anthropic kept Opus 4.7 at the same $5/$25 per million token rate as Opus 4.6. However, as a Finout analysis pointed out, the model uses a new tokenizer that can map the same text to 1.0x to 1.35x more tokens. That means your effective cost per request could increase by up to 35% on certain workloads, particularly code, structured data, and non-English text, even though the sticker price hasn't changed. Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro remains cheaper at $2/$12 per million tokens for input and output respectively, which may matter for cost-sensitive production workloads where coding performance isn't the top priority. One of the most interesting dynamics around this release is its relationship to Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic's most powerful model, which remains restricted to a select group of companies through Project Glasswing. As CNBC reported, Anthropic openly acknowledged that Opus 4.7 doesn't match Mythos Preview's capabilities. This transparency is deliberate. Anthropic is using Opus 4.7 as a proving ground for cybersecurity safeguards that it hopes to eventually apply to Mythos-class models before a broader release. The company stated that it "experimented with efforts to differentially reduce" Opus 4.7's cyber capabilities during training. The model ships with automated detection systems that block requests indicating prohibited or high-risk cybersecurity uses. For security professionals who want to use Opus 4.7 for legitimate purposes like penetration testing, vulnerability research, and red-teaming, Anthropic has launched a new Cyber Verification program. According to CNBC, the launch of Project Glasswing has already prompted high-profile conversations between members of the Trump administration, tech CEOs, and bank executives about the security risks posed by powerful AI models. Opus 4.7 is available immediately across all Claude products, the Claude API (using the model ID ), Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud's Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. According to GitHub's changelog, the model is also rolling out on GitHub Copilot, where it will eventually replace Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6 in the model picker for Copilot Pro+ users. Pricing is unchanged: $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, with up to 90% savings through prompt caching and 50% through the Batch API. The model supports a 1 million token input context window with up to 128K output tokens. 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Rail operator issues compensation update after recent travel chaos in Essex
Commuters faced hours of travel chaos after a major rail fault caused delays and cancellations across the county. The disruption was first reported in the afternoon on Wednesday, April 15 on routes connecting Essex to London and lasted late into the night, affecting commuters from London Liverpool Street all over Essex. The network operator has issued an apology to affected customers. A spokesperson on behalf of Greater Anglia and Network Rail Anglia said: "Services on the Great Eastern Main Line were severely disrupted on Wednesday evening due to a fault with the overhead power lines between Shenfield and Chelmsford. "Engineers worked through the night to repair the fault and safely restore the railway. "We know this caused significant disruption for customers, including at Colchester, and we are sorry to everyone affected. "During the disruption, tickets were accepted on alternative routes, including the Elizabeth Line between Liverpool Street and Shenfield, and c2c services between Fenchurch Street and Southend Central, to help people complete their journeys. "Customers delayed by more than 15 minutes can claim compensation through Delay Repay."
Rail operator issues compensation update after recent travel chaos in Essex
Commuters faced hours of travel chaos after a major rail fault caused delays and cancellations across the county. The disruption was first reported in the afternoon on Wednesday, April 15 on routes connecting Essex to London and lasted late into the night, affecting commuters from London Liverpool Street all over Essex. The network operator has issued an apology to affected customers. A spokesperson on behalf of Greater Anglia and Network Rail Anglia said: "Services on the Great Eastern Main Line were severely disrupted on Wednesday evening due to a fault with the overhead power lines between Shenfield and Chelmsford. "Engineers worked through the night to repair the fault and safely restore the railway. "We know this caused significant disruption for customers, including at Colchester, and we are sorry to everyone affected. "During the disruption, tickets were accepted on alternative routes, including the Elizabeth Line between Liverpool Street and Shenfield, and c2c services between Fenchurch Street and Southend Central, to help people complete their journeys. "Customers delayed by more than 15 minutes can claim compensation through Delay Repay."
Rail operator issues compensation update after recent travel chaos in Essex
Commuters faced hours of travel chaos after a major rail fault caused delays and cancellations across the county. The disruption was first reported in the afternoon on Wednesday, April 15 on routes connecting Essex to London and lasted late into the night, affecting commuters from London Liverpool Street all over Essex. The network operator has issued an apology to affected customers. A spokesperson on behalf of Greater Anglia and Network Rail Anglia said: "Services on the Great Eastern Main Line were severely disrupted on Wednesday evening due to a fault with the overhead power lines between Shenfield and Chelmsford. "Engineers worked through the night to repair the fault and safely restore the railway. "We know this caused significant disruption for customers, including at Colchester, and we are sorry to everyone affected. "During the disruption, tickets were accepted on alternative routes, including the Elizabeth Line between Liverpool Street and Shenfield, and c2c services between Fenchurch Street and Southend Central, to help people complete their journeys. "Customers delayed by more than 15 minutes can claim compensation through Delay Repay."
Urvashi Dholakia blasts 'Midnight Construction Chaos' at Asit Modi's property, says living conditions have become 'unbearable'
Urvashi Dholakia raises serious concerns over ongoing late-night construction in Mumbai's Juhu, alleging noise pollution, road blockage, and lack of authority action. Targeting Asit Kumar Modi, the actor highlights repeated violations of civic rules and failed police response, sparking debate on residents' rights, urban regulations, and accountability in one of the city's prime residential areas. Submitted by Ektaa Kumaran on Fri, 04/17/2026 - 15:50 MUMBAI: TV actor Urvashi Dholakia has raised serious concerns over ongoing late-night construction exertion in Juhu, describing the situation as nothing short of a "night horror" for residents. The actor has questioned the apparent inactivity by authorities despite repeated disturbances. Taking to social media, Dholakia participated an open letter addressing the issue, pointing to ongoing construction at a property reportedly linked to Asit Kumar Modi, best known for producing Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah. (ALSO READ : Yuvika Chaudhary, Urvashi Dholakia, Ridhi Dogra, Shiny Doshi and many more grace a special Ramzan event Accompanied by video clips, she stressed what she described as serious disruptions to daily life. In her post, she stated, " HORRORS OF CONSTRUCTION WORK IN JUHU CONTINUES. Now without authorization they've blocked an entire road and no functionary has come for examination or intervention. " trailing Modi directly, she added, " You and your family have made life unsupportable and unlivable for us for your convenience. Your family categorically claimed ' kaam nahi rukega' ok also. My posts will also not stop now! " This isn't the only complaint. A day prior, on April 16, the actor had formerly raised the issue, expressing concern over prolonged construction hours extending late into the night. She wrote, " For several days now, construction work has continued well beyond admissible hours, frequently late into the night. The constant noise from ministry, drilling, and movement of accoutrements has made it extremely delicate for residers to rest, affecting sleep, health, and overall well- being. " "As per original regulations, construction in residential areas must follow designated timings. Unfortunately, these guidelines appear to be constantly overlooked. This isn't just an annoyance, it's a matter of basic living conditions," she stated, emphasizing the impact on families, senior residents, and working professionals. Calling for immediate intervention, she urged authorities to take action. "I urge the concerned authorities and builders to rigorously adhere to permitted construction hours, minimize noise pollution, and ensure that residents' right to peace and rest is respected." " I prompt the concerned authorities and builders to rigorously cleave to permitted construction hours, minimise noise pollution, and insure that residers' right to peace and rest is admired. " "I had telephoned the police emergency number at 4:23 AM and made three calls till 4:55 AM. I waited till 5:08 in the morning, and nobody turned up," she shared. Questioning the responsiveness of the system, she added, "Just imagine if this was any other situation, and had I been in trouble, what would have been my situation? The system is so flawed, it's unthinkable and shocking." Questioning the responsiveness of the system, she added, "Just imagine if this was any other situation, and had I been in trouble, what would have been my situation? The system is so defective, it's unthinkable and shocking. " As the issue continues to escalate, the matter has sparked wider concern among residers, with growing calls for stricter enforcement of communal morals and timely intervention by the authorities. Stay connected to TellyChakkar for all the exclusive scoops, confirmed updates, and behind-the-scenes drama from the world of television, OTT, and movies. (ALSO READ : Exclusive! Naagin 6: Urvashi Dholakia aka Urvashi Kataria to become the dragon in the show? For more news and updates from the world of television, OTT, and movies do follow our whatsapp Channel below:
Rail operator issues compensation update after recent travel chaos in Essex
Commuters faced hours of travel chaos after a major rail fault caused delays and cancellations across the county. The disruption was first reported in the afternoon on Wednesday, April 15 on routes connecting Essex to London and lasted late into the night, affecting commuters from London Liverpool Street all over Essex. The network operator has issued an apology to affected customers. A spokesperson on behalf of Greater Anglia and Network Rail Anglia said: "Services on the Great Eastern Main Line were severely disrupted on Wednesday evening due to a fault with the overhead power lines between Shenfield and Chelmsford. "Engineers worked through the night to repair the fault and safely restore the railway. "We know this caused significant disruption for customers, including at Colchester, and we are sorry to everyone affected. "During the disruption, tickets were accepted on alternative routes, including the Elizabeth Line between Liverpool Street and Shenfield, and c2c services between Fenchurch Street and Southend Central, to help people complete their journeys. "Customers delayed by more than 15 minutes can claim compensation through Delay Repay."
Rail operator issues compensation update after recent travel chaos in Essex
Commuters faced hours of travel chaos after a major rail fault caused delays and cancellations across the county. The disruption was first reported in the afternoon on Wednesday, April 15 on routes connecting Essex to London and lasted late into the night, affecting commuters from London Liverpool Street all over Essex. The network operator has issued an apology to affected customers. A spokesperson on behalf of Greater Anglia and Network Rail Anglia said: "Services on the Great Eastern Main Line were severely disrupted on Wednesday evening due to a fault with the overhead power lines between Shenfield and Chelmsford. "Engineers worked through the night to repair the fault and safely restore the railway. "We know this caused significant disruption for customers, including at Colchester, and we are sorry to everyone affected. "During the disruption, tickets were accepted on alternative routes, including the Elizabeth Line between Liverpool Street and Shenfield, and c2c services between Fenchurch Street and Southend Central, to help people complete their journeys. "Customers delayed by more than 15 minutes can claim compensation through Delay Repay."
Putting The Calamity Makers In Charge: Anthropic And Claude Mythos Preview
Be wary of a company - any company - who exerts moral muscle as they create software and digital platforms that are injurious and simultaneously lauded for curing that injury. Be especially wary of Anthropic. With sagacious loftiness, it warns of the disabling dangers of the artificial intelligence (AI) frontier. Principled, it tells the Trump administration it will not partake in creating AI software that aids mass surveillance, a move that earned it an order of excommunication as a "supply chain risk". It then goes on to create Claude Mythos Preview, a seemingly dystopian model that will, according to certain computer scientists "scan the hidden plumbing of the internet - operating systems, browsers, routers, and shared open-source code - at an unprecedented scale" thereby turning specialised hacking into "a routine and automated process." The new Claude Mythos Preview was advertised with almost parental glee as the "best-aligned model that we have released to date by a significant margin". The child, however, seemed to be a horror, a true cyber shit. The AI model was "likely to possess the greatest alignment-related risk of any model we have released to date." This two-ways lingo is typical of Anthropic: safety is a cardinal virtue to be treasured but that hardly excuses not developing a model of terrifying danger. They manufacture the danger and the cure. The danger lies in the company's assertion that Mythos Preview revealed that "AI models have reached a level of coding capability where they can surpass all but the most skilled humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities." The model had "already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser." These capabilities were bound to proliferate, precipitating a fallout "for economies, public safety, and national security". The excerpts, messages and statements from Anthropic are forecasts of a roguish frontier they are willing to catastrophise and market at the same time. The company notes, for instance, "reckless" behaviour on the part of Mythos Preview, with recklessness defined in muddled jargon as "cases where the model appears to ignore commonsensical or explicitly stated safety-related constraints on its actions." In one instance, the model, sounding like a mischievous, disobedient creature, was provided a "sandbox" computing environment enabling researchers to interact with it. A simulated user instructed it to attempt exiting that contained environment, after which it would inform the researcher in charge of the experiment it had done so. The researcher in question, Sam Bowman, recalls receiving "an uneasy surprise" while nibbling on a sandwich (cyber-boffins are numbingly dull even in admiring despair) that the model, despite not having access to the internet, had dived into it. The model has also been able to identify vulnerabilities as old as one or two decades, including a 27-year-old vulnerability in the otherwise secure operating system OpenBSD and a 16-year-old vulnerability in FFmpeg's video encoding code. Anthropic has its own logic in dealing with the Promethean beast that is Mythos Preview. It resembles, in no small way, the homicidal and chilling rationale that gave birth to the Hydrogen bomb during the Cold War. The argument then advanced was that if the US did not acquire it, other powers would, and most certainly the Soviet Union, which would be greatly expanding its atomic weapons inventory even as it maintained a vast conventional army. This logic of escalating destructiveness found form in National Security Council Paper NSC-68, prepared by the US Department of State's Policy Planning Staff on April 7, 1950. The company proposes to manage the dissemination of Mythos Preview through Project Glasswing, a curative enterprise involving partners of Anthropic's snobbish choosing. Some of the unsurprising elect include Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorgan Chase, NVIDIA and the Linux Foundation. These selected parties will use Mythos Preview "as part of their defensive security work", with Anthropic sharing its findings. Access to a further 40 additional organisations will also be included to "use the model to scan and secure both first-party and open-source systems." Usage credits amounting to US$100 million will be advanced for using the model, and $US4 million in direct donations to open-source security organisations. The vigilante temptation to leak the details of Mythos to willing, unscrupulous buyers - best not forget what happened to CrowdStrike - is bound to be stirred. The very cyber-corporate nature of the venture, one that restricts access to AI technology via the purse and intellectual property of the American private sector, advertised as both sublimely powerful yet catastrophically destructive, has every reason to make lawmakers tremble. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell were worried enough to convene a meeting on April 7 with bankers on the subject, including CEOs from Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs. "The bankers were in town for meetings that day, and it was appropriate (for) the Secretary Bessent to do what he did," revealed White House national economic adviser Kevin Hassett in an interview with Fox News' "The Story with Martha MacCallum". At the Treasury, the bankers were informed about "the cyber risks to make sure that they are aware of them". What a fine picture this is turning out to be. And there are the questions on Anthropic's reliability here. Will it be as good at finding vulnerabilities as fixing them, acting as both poacher and gamekeeper? Mythos is also not open source and very much the property of the company. Then comes this troubling observation from software engineer Bulatova Alsu and the dangers posed by the agent itself: "Mythos is not an anomaly but the first vivid empirical confirmation of a structural contradiction embedded in the current AI safety strategy itself. The contradiction is this: the more we restrict a capable agent, the less predictable its behaviour becomes." Humanity has much to look forward to.
'Chaos' at Spanish airport as 'several hundred' passengers stuck in queues
The implementation of the EES has caused 'chaos' at airports across Europe(Image: Lucy North/PA Wire) A travel expert has warned of 'chaos' at Palma Airport in Spain following the implementation of the EU's new Entry/Exit System (EES). UK travellers now face new data checks at European airports as the EES has been fully implemented across 29 countries in the Schengen area, including Spain, Italy and Greece. The new system means UK holidaymakers now have to 'create a digital record' when they first travel to the Schengen area. This will require travellers to provide additional information upon arrival at the border, replacing the previous system of passport stamping. Click here to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily Newsletter However, the introduction of the system has led to significant travel disruptions, including 'chaos' at Palma Airport in Spain, according to travel expert Rory Boland. The Which? travel writer described the queue for British passport holders being 'several hundred people deep' and 'hours long'. Rory also said that while he was there, there were just 'five or six' border control stations open to UK passport holders. Rory described seeing 'tears and anger' in the queues, with staff members being 'inconsistent' in which passengers they called forward and for which flights. He said: "Some people had stood for hours, only to find out they were still unlikely to make their flight, and were upset when other passengers were called forward. There was no one in charge, or any attempt to communicate with passengers about the situation. "The one member of airline staff present was from Jet2, whom I regularly saw remonstrating with disinterested staff on behalf of her customers. You can understand why passengers were angry. "They arrived at the airport early, as instructed, but the airport was so poorly prepared for the new checks that they were still at risk of missing their flight. Worse still, if they did, they may well be left to foot the bill for a new ticket." Explaining why the queues and delays are so significant, Rory said: "The EES requires Schengen countries to carry out biometric checks on arrival and departure. Non-EU passport holders are photographed and/or fingerprinted on departure, which is taking longer than a quick flick of your passport by a border guard. "These checks may only add a minute or two extra for an individual passenger, but for a flight of 300 passengers, it adds up. Many airports simply have not installed enough infrastructure to carry out the checks, don't have enough staff, or both." Other disruption which has taken place since the full implementation of the EES was when hundreds of people missed their flights after being stuck in queues at an airport in Milan last weekend. One mum from Oldham found herself unable to get back home for her children and work after being stuck in a queue at the airport for four hours, only to be told her flight back to Manchester had taken off without her. She has since had to cover the extra expense of staying in Italy for longer as the next available flight back was five days after her original departure date. Representative body Airports Council International recently reported that EES was causing delays of up to three hours, with airports in Spain, Portugal, France and Italy among the worst affected. Palma Airport did not provide a comment and Jet2 has been approached.
Rail operator issues compensation update after recent travel chaos in Essex
Commuters faced hours of travel chaos after a major rail fault caused delays and cancellations across the county. The disruption was first reported in the afternoon on Wednesday, April 15 on routes connecting Essex to London and lasted late into the night, affecting commuters from London Liverpool Street all over Essex. The network operator has issued an apology to affected customers. A spokesperson on behalf of Greater Anglia and Network Rail Anglia said: "Services on the Great Eastern Main Line were severely disrupted on Wednesday evening due to a fault with the overhead power lines between Shenfield and Chelmsford. "Engineers worked through the night to repair the fault and safely restore the railway. "We know this caused significant disruption for customers, including at Colchester, and we are sorry to everyone affected. "During the disruption, tickets were accepted on alternative routes, including the Elizabeth Line between Liverpool Street and Shenfield, and c2c services between Fenchurch Street and Southend Central, to help people complete their journeys. "Customers delayed by more than 15 minutes can claim compensation through Delay Repay."
Live Q&A: Anthropic's Mythos Ushers in Dangerous New AI Era
The artificial intelligence startup Anthropic announced on April 7 that it had built a system so advanced that it was limiting its release to a select group of institutions, giving them a chance to test the Mythos model against their own defenses with the hope of staving off widespread AI-powered hacks. Since then, government and industry leaders have sounded the alarm, warning that Mythos and models like it have the potential of ushering in a dangerous new era of cyberattacks. To discuss the latest and answer your questions, Bloomberg's Edward Ludlow leads a conversation with reporters Shirin Ghaffary, Margi Murphy and Todd Gillespie in a Live Q&A on Friday, April 17 at 1:30 p.m. EDT. While anyone can listen, Bloomberg digital subscribers and Terminal clients have the exclusive opportunity to ask our team questions to answer in real-time. This conversation will be recorded and made available.
