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Anthropic releases Opus 4.8; plus, you’ll soon be able to trade AI token futures

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TechCrunch Industry News
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May 29, 2026
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Summary

The new Opus model comes with a tool called Dynamic Workflows, for coordinating swarms of subagents. Also, large exchanges are designing derivative products around AI tokens, which are increasingly being considered less a computational output and more a raw material input, like electricity or bandwidth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices