Daily brief

Saturday, July 25, 2026

Less doom, more diff. 1 to act on · 1 to test · 3 to monitor.

Act

1

Vercel WAF for Blob is now in beta, enabling WAF rules to protect your Blob storage without code changes. source

Test

1

Anthropic's new Claude Opus 5 model aims to match Claude Fable 5 capabilities at half the cost; try it for cost-sensitive workflows. source

Monitor

3

Prentis, a new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is raising $100M to focus on automating routine computer tasks. source
GraphEval is a new framework designed to evaluate and mitigate hallucinations in large language models by simulating practical scenarios. source
Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star, signaling a potential expansion beyond image generation into new application domains. source