The Vault · 2026-03-27 10:27:00 · Bloomberg Markets
Asia's oil refiners are abandoning the Middle East's primary pricing benchmarks, declaring them broken. The escalating conflict involving Iran has warped these critical financial gauges, creating wild price swings that major buyers now say have completely detached from the realities of the physical crude market. This r...
The Lab · 2026-04-16 16:52:41 · VentureBeat
Anthropic has publicly released Claude Opus 4.7, its most powerful large language model to date, narrowly retaking the lead in the fiercely competitive race for the most capable generally available AI. The release comes as the company continues to restrict access to an even more powerful successor, codenamed Mythos, wh...
The Network · 2026-04-20 17:22:44 · Bloomberg Markets
The Baltic Exchange has launched a critical consultation with the global shipping market to potentially revise its benchmark tanker rate. This urgent move comes after the war in Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, a vital maritime chokepoint, effectively severing access to a core segment of the standard trade route. The ...
The Lab · 2026-04-21 18:52:35 · Decrypt
An unofficial AI model, created by merging and 'healing' two distinct fine-tunes, has reportedly outperformed established top-tier models in testing. This 'frankenmerge' experiment, conducted by developer Kyle Hessling, demonstrates the potent and unpredictable results achievable through aggressive model merging techni...