SOXL jumps 4.6%, Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5.2, and the prohibited-ads ML question

Chips rally while big tech catches its breath, Anthropic ships two new frontier models at lower prices, and we coach you through a staff-level trust-and-safety ML design question. Markets: SOXL +4.59% to $58.78, QQQ -0.11% to $678.58, VGT -0.21% to $111.74, VUG -0.20% to $84.28. AI news: Anthropic releases Claude Mythos 5.2 and Fable 5.2 with record benchmarks and a 20% API price cut. It is the lab's first launch since METR's recursive self-improvement warning, and it comes ahead of the company's IPO. Interview Tip of the Day: Design an ML system to detect ads selling prohibited items, using multimodal text and image signals, getting labels cheaply, handling sellers who deliberately obfuscate, and running a human-review loop for borderline cases. Did You Know: A weekend home energy tracker built from clip-on sensors and a simple phone chart that shows which appliance is eating your electricity bill. Questions or feedback: [email protected]