AI startup Anthropic, backed by hundreds of millions in venture capital (and perhaps soon hundreds of millions more), today announced the latest version of its GenAI tech, Claude. And the company claims that it rivals OpenAI's GPT-4 in terms of performance. Claude 3, as Anthropic's new GenAI is called, is a family of models -- Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus, Opus being the most powerful. All show "increased capabilities" in analysis and forecasting, Anthropic claims, as well...

Apple shares are in the red this year, so Wall Street is chattering about why that is and what might change it. The latest blow came Monday, when the European Commission said it was fining Apple nearly $2 billion over what it called “abusive App Store rules” for music-streaming providers. Apple said it would appeal the decision, which it said came even though the commission didn’t identify credible evidence that consumers were harmed...