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  • Claude Opus 5 launched July 24, 2026, at the same price as Opus 4.8: $5 and $25 per million tokens.
  • Anthropic says it comes close to Fable 5’s intelligence at roughly half the price.
  • A new effort setting lets you trade depth for speed and token cost on each request.
  • It is now the default model on Claude Max and the strongest on Claude Pro.

The Claude Opus 5 release by Anthropic arrived on July 24, 2026, and it puts near-frontier intelligence on the same bill you were paying for Opus 4.8. Anthropic pitches the model as one you reach for every day. It comes close to the intelligence of Claude Fable 5, the company’s top public model, at roughly half the price, and it is now the default on Claude Max and the strongest option on Claude Pro. Think of it as the quick, capable sedan you drive daily rather than the race car you book for one hard lap. Cost sits at the center of the Claude Opus 5 release by Anthropic, and the Claude Opus 5 pricing is the surprise.

Standard use runs $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, the same rate as Opus 4.8 and half of Fable 5’s rate. A Fast mode runs about 2.5 times quicker at double the price. The headline feature is the Claude Opus 5 effort setting, a dial you turn per request. Set it low for routine calls and save tokens. Push it high when a problem needs full depth. Anthropic says the model holds quality at lower effort while spending fewer tokens than before, so your real bill can fall even as the price holds steady.

Claude Opus 5 vs Fable 5 on the benchmarks

The Claude Opus 5 release by Anthropic leans on value rather than raw peak scores. On the Claude Opus 5 benchmarks the company published, the model tops its own lineup on Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA, though it still trails Mythos 5, the restricted top model, on cybersecurity work. The Claude Opus 5 vs Fable 5 comparison is where the case lands. On CursorBench 3.2 at max effort, Opus 5 comes within 0.5 percent of Fable 5’s peak at half the cost per task. ARC-AGI 3, a test of fresh problem-solving, shows a wider gap, with its score running three times the next-best model. For computer use, OSWorld 2.0 has it beating Fable 5’s best result at a third of the cost. Anthropic also reports lab gains, with organic chemistry scores 10.2 points above Opus 4.8 and protein-function predictions 7.7 points higher.

Where Claude Opus 5 coding pulls ahead

The clearest sign of progress turns up in Claude Opus 5 coding tests, where the model checks its own work and keeps going until it clears the task. Anthropic shares one Frontier-Bench job where it got a drawing of a machine part but no way to view it directly. Opus 5 wrote its own computer vision pipeline to read the geometry from raw pixels, then rebuilt the part. No rival model with the same setup solved it across five tries. Handed a real bug in a popular package manager, it traced the root cause and fixed an edge case the community patch had missed.

One engineer at a trading firm used it to build a market data feed for a new exchange in a single sitting, and with no live feed to test against, the model wrote its own test harness to confirm it read the data correctly. The Claude Opus 5 release by Anthropic also brought two beta features, letting developers switch tools mid-conversation without breaking the prompt cache and routing flagged API requests to another model instead of failing. This is the company’s fourth model in under two months, after Mythos 5, Fable 5, and Sonnet 5. If you have wanted a model you can run all day without watching the meter, Opus 5 is built for exactly that.

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Apple's iPhone Duo
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The iPhone Duo is Apple’s first foldable iPhone, and it opens like a small book into a 7.6-inch screen. Closed, you hold a 5.4-inch outer display that fits in a pocket. Both screens share the same aspect ratio, so a video or app scales cleanly as you move between them. Stand it up on a table, and it works hands-free for calls or video. Apple showed the phone on September 9 at its Surprise and Shine event in Cupertino, where new chief executive John Ternus led his first keynote. He said rival foldables often feel like two phones stuck together. The Duo tries to feel like one device that changes size when you need it.

What the screens and camera can do

Open the Duo and the inner display runs 50 percent larger than the iPhone 18 Pro Max. A custom nano-texture finish cuts glare and hides the crease, the seam that has annoyed foldable owners for years. Peak brightness reaches 3000 nits, so the screen stays readable outdoors. Inside, an under-display FaceTime camera keeps the view whole, with no notch breaking the screen. The rear camera leans on a 48MP Dual Fusion system with a main and an ultra-wide lens. There is no telephoto, a trade Apple made to save room in the thin body. Smart Take reads the scene and snaps the photo when everyone poses, so you can stand in the shot instead of behind it. You can also shoot 48MP photos and 4K video at up to 120 frames per second.

iPhone Duo specs that matter for daily use

The iPhone Duo specs point to a phone built for long, heavy days. Inside sits the A20 Pro chip with a vapor chamber that spreads heat during games and video edits. Apple pairs it with a dual-battery design that fits more cells into the frame. You get up to 31 hours of video on the inner screen and up to 44 hours on the outer one. Plug it in, and it reaches 50 percent in about 20 minutes. A Grade 5 titanium frame and a precision hinge give the body its strength, and Touch ID moves to the side button in place of Face ID.

iPhone Duo prices are ridiculously high

Here is the part your wallet cares about. The iPhone Duo price starts at $1,999 for 256GB in the United States, which makes it the most expensive iPhone in the lineup. In the UAE, iPhone Duo starts at AED 8,499 for the 256 GB, AED 9,349 for the 512 GB, AED 11,049 for the 1 TB, and the laptop-price level of AED 13,599 for the 2 TB. Preorders open October 16, and the iPhone Duo release date lands on October 23. Apple plans a first wave across more than 70 countries, then adds 28 more on October 30. For comparison, Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 starts near $1,899.

Why the foldable iPhone arrives only now

Apple waited years while Samsung and others sold foldables. Now the foldable iPhone brings iOS 27 features built for two screens, like Split View and apps that respond to how you hold the phone. eSIM handles the connection, since there is no SIM tray anywhere. Apple Pencil support arrives later in 2026. That gap of a few weeks after the iPhone 18 Pro points to a slower, careful rollout for a harder build. If you have wanted a phone that turns into a small tablet without feeling clumsy, this is Apple’s answer, and you can hold one this month.

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Work from Park initiative
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The Work from Park initiative puts bookable workspaces inside Dubai’s public parks, starting with Al Barsha Pond Park. Dubai Municipality announced the programme on 19 April 2026 and said it had signed two memoranda of cooperation to deliver it. One went to Group AMANA, which builds the units, and the other to Letswork LLC, which operates them.

Entrepreneurs, freelancers, small and medium-sized enterprises

The structure is a public-private partnership. Dubai Municipality provides the park and the mandate. Private firms handle design, construction, and daily operation. The municipality said the model gives the private sector a route into public facilities while each site keeps its role as a park.

Target users are entrepreneurs, freelancers, small and medium-sized enterprises, and anyone doing remote work in Dubai. Content creators get dedicated production rooms, which the municipality said are meant to strengthen their place in the emirate’s creative economy.

Letswork runs the booking side. Users reserve space through the Letswork app, check in on arrival and use one membership across the company’s network of venues. The offer covers desks by the hour, event space, podcast recording and production rooms for creators. Letswork will also run training programmes and group sessions for creative talent and new businesses.

How the Work from Park initiative is built

Group AMANA delivers the first site through its DuBox unit. DuBox builds the workspace modules in a factory, then transports them to the park and assembles them on site. The municipality said this shortens the build schedule, reduces waste and lowers the environmental footprint compared with conventional construction. Units can be reconfigured later as demand shifts.

The Al Barsha Pond Park site was scheduled to open in May 2026. Letswork now lists it as a bookable venue on its platform. The listing describes modular pods with high-speed Wi-Fi, power and climate-controlled seating, plus podcast studios and creative production rooms. Members can book day passes, meeting rooms and private offices under one Letswork membership.

Dubai Municipality said the Work from Park initiative would add more sites across the emirate later in 2026. Locations and opening dates for those have yet to be confirmed.

Bader Anwahi, CEO of the Public Facilities Agency at Dubai Municipality, said the partnerships combine advanced construction methods with private sector expertise to produce public infrastructure “that is flexible, sustainable, and aligned with modern lifestyles and work patterns.”

Richard Abboud, CEO of Group AMANA, said modular construction lets the company build efficient, adaptable units at speed.

Why the Work from Park initiative fits Dubai’s planning goals

The programme sits under three policy frameworks. Dubai’s 2040 Parks and Greenery Strategy targets 95 million park visits a year by 2040. Land use falls under the Dubai Urban Plan 2040. Economic targets through 2033 come from the Dubai Economic Agenda D33.

Omar AlMheiri, co-founder of Letswork, said the partnership would add dedicated creative spaces and podcast studios. He described it as a step toward changing where and how people in the UAE do flexible work.

Dubai Municipality describes the Work from Park initiative as the first of its kind. Existing Dubai coworking spaces operate from office towers, hotels and retail sites. This programme moves the format onto municipal parkland, with the municipality as host and a private platform as operator.

Outdoor workspaces in Dubai face one obvious constraint: summer heat. The Letswork listing addresses this with climate-controlled seating inside the pods. Demand across a full year of operation will show whether the format holds. The second site, once announced, will be the next signal of how fast the municipality intends to scale.

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