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Anthropic Drops Sonnet 4.6
Alamin Hossain
February 18, 2026
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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6, a powerful model that rivals its top system at a much lower cost.
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.6, its newest mid level AI model. It matches or even beats the flagship Opus 4.6 in areas like finance, coding, computer use, and office tasks.
On SWE Bench Verified, Sonnet 4.6 scored 79.6% in coding, very close to Opus 4.6 at 80.8%, while costing far less to run.
It beat Opus 4.6 in agentic financial analysis and office task benchmarks, which is the first time a mid tier Claude model has done this.
In early testing of Claude Code, users preferred Sonnet 4.6 over its older version 70% of the time, and even chose it over Opus 4.5 in 59% of cases.
As strong Chinese AI models compete hard on cost, Sonnet 4.6 helps the company fight for a bigger share of the growing AI agent market while keeping performance high and prices competitive.
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Apple is speeding up work on three new AI wearables with cameras to give Siri real time visual awareness.
Apple is building smart glasses, a camera pendant, and camera equipped AirPods that connect to the iPhone and help Siri understand what you see.
The smart glasses will have dual cameras, Apple designed frames, and no display. Production could start late this year, with a launch planned for 2027.
The pendant will act as the iPhone’s “eyes and ears”, with an always on camera and microphone to send live input to Siri.
The new AirPods may arrive as early as this year. They will use low resolution cameras to give Siri more visual context and improve features like live translation.
This could push Apple into the center of the AI hardware race. If the devices work well, they could change how people use everyday tech. But everything depends on a strong Siri upgrade, and Apple still needs to prove it can deliver after years of delays and weak updates.
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