Anthropic launches Opus 5, closer and cheaper to frontier AI model Fable 5

Catch up on the top artificial intelligence news and commentary by Wall Street analysts on publicly traded companies in the space with this daily recap compiled. AI SURGE: Intel (INTC) blew past Q2 estimates and rode the AI wave to its strongest growth in over a decade, yet the stock slipped as segment performance remains mixed across data center, client computing, and IoT. The company topped Q2 estimates and posted its strongest revenue growth since 2011, while its outlook came in ahead of expectations. "AI is driving unprecedented demand for compute," CEO Lip-Bu Tan said in the statement. "As we continue to execute, Intel is well-positioned to capture sustainable growth across our CPU franchise." CLAUDE OPUS 5: Anthropic announced that Claude Opus 5 is now available. "It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price," the company explained. "On coding and knowledge work evaluations like Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA, Opus 5 is the new state-of-the-art, though it remains behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks. Opus 5 is designed to be used every day: it works more efficiently than other models. It's the new.