Daily AI CatchupAI Catchup — Sunday, July 26, 2026
Sunday, July 26, 2026Anthropic
Claude Opus 5 Triples ARC-AGI-3 Scores at Half the Frontier Price
Anthropic's new flagship draws 87K+ Alpha Signal upvotes, topping agentic-task leaderboards while undercutting frontier pricing.
Black-Forest-LabsBlack Forest Labs Opens Access to FLUX 3
A single multimodal model spans 20-second audio-synced video and factory-robot training from just 30 minutes of demo footage.
CognitionCognition Acquires The Interaction Company
The Devin maker folds viral text-message agent Poke into its lineup, betting consumer and developer agents share infrastructure.
OpenaiOpenAI's ChatGPT Work Agent Can Now Access Password-Protected Sites
The most-upvoted agents story of the week unlocks a much wider range of internal tools for autonomous use.
MidjourneyMidjourney Acquires Co-Star to Build a Consumer Product Empire
The image-generation company picks up an astrology app, pushing beyond pictures into a broader consumer play.