Anthropic ships Opus 4.8, nears $1T

Welcome back, Superhuman. Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.8 with a key improvement: honesty (or so they claim). The AI lab says Opus 4.8 actually pushes back when it’s unsure about something instead of making things up and giving you the dreaded “you’re absolutely right.”

Today: Opus 4.8 is here, how to turn any selfie into a corporate headshot with Claude, and get the latest prompts and trending social posts.

1. Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.8 as its valuation hits $965B: Opus 4.8 leads in coding, knowledge work, and honesty — Anthropic trained it to avoid making confident claims on thin evidence, a consistent flaw in frontier models. Opus 4.8 also adds a cost-efficient Fast mode and effort control. It’s available now at the same price as Opus 4.7. Anthropic also finalized $65B in funding at a $965B valuation. Learn more about Opus 4.8.

2. Microsoft 365 Copilot gets a speed boost and quieter design: The new Microsoft 365 Copilot interface swaps its colorful look for a clearer, quieter design applied consistently across Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. After the redesign, Microsoft says Copilot’s app now loads twice as fast, with a 10% improvement in response times for complex prompts. See Copilot’s new design.

3. ElevenLabs ships a dubbing model that carries emotion across languages: ElevenLabs’ Dubbing v2 model translates videos across 90+ languages while preserving the original speaker's tone, performance, and delivery. It’s designed to make dubbing both more authentic and cost-efficient. Try Dubbing v2 or watch it in action.

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Polsia hit a $250M valuation with no employees. Polsia — which claims its AI agents run 8,000+ companies autonomously — locked in $30M in fresh funding. Founder Ben Cera says the company’s AI agent system runs nearly all of its operations, including the fundraise itself. Watch the viral announcement (5M views).

AI is dismantling the billable hour. With AI now handling plenty of analysis grunt work, many industries that charge by the hour (marketing, consulting, law firms,) are facing increasing pressure from clients to switch to outcome-based pricing.

Co-Invest put an investment platform in ChatGPT and Claude. Co-Invest lets you source investment ideas from ChatGPT/Claude, review the reasoning, and execute trades without leaving the chat. Just remember that AI tools carry risk, so always consult a financial advisor before making any decisions. See how it works (1.5M views).

A new AI always knows what's for dinner. London robotics startup Kaikaku just rolled out Epicure, a food model trained on 4M+ recipes and 1,790 ingredients across seven languages. Explore its science-backed recipe suggestions.

Readers also loved the new most obvious sign of AI text (7M views), alongside Claude Code's creator dropping his single biggest tip for using Claude Code (3K bookmarks).

Sample Prompt: “Turn this photo into a professional corporate headshot for LinkedIn. Keep my face natural and realistic. Use soft studio lighting, a clean neutral background, a sharp camera look, and a polished business outfit. Make it look premium, modern, and professional without making it look fake.”

You can use it to remove backgrounds, upscale images, erase objects and more.

Picking an API by seeing how quickly it returns a result could miss what really matters in production. This guide from You. com explains why raw latency alone is a misleading signal and what to measure instead.

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📱 iPhone Rumors: Concept photos of Apple’s AI-first iOS 27 redesign are circulating the internet, the updates were reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman but still unconfirmed.

👀 Job Replacement: A viral post outlines two major problems that come with replacing human workers with AI (3M views).

⛰ Travel Posters: This prompt helps you spin up beautiful travel posters so you can commemorate your adventures.

👀 Saving Villains: Watch this creator use AI to rescue cinema’s biggest villains, including the Night King, Gus Fring, and Vecna (5M views).

🚨 Stay Safe: New data shows that AI voice bots can be manipulated by auditory prompt injection attacks that are silent to humans. Here’s what you need to know.

🦾 Opus 4.8: Claude Code now offers dynamic workflows to better tackle large projects, powered by Anthropic’s newest model (1M views). Try it here.

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A Redditor created an AI-generated redesign of the Ferrari Luce that looks arguably better than the real thing (2K upvotes).

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Until next time — Zain, Theodore, & the Superhuman AI team.