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Claude Sonnet 5 continues Anthropic's pattern of hiding price increases behind unchanged token rates

In an independent test, Claude Sonnet 5 placed fifth and beat the pricier Opus 4.8 on some agent-based tasks. But its massive jump in token consumption makes the model more expensive per task than ...
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OpenAI's genomics paper accidentally reveals a Pro lineup it hasn't announced yet

An OpenAI paper lists three Pro models for GPT-5.6 for the first time: Luna Pro, Terra Pro, and Sol Pro. Until now, Pro was always a single top-tier model. Pro users may soon be able to choose between ...
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Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak

After a two-week suspension, the U.S. government has lifted export controls on Anthropic's second most powerful AI model, Fable 5, making it available worldwide again. The less restricted version, ...
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Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 closes the gap to Opus model series

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, which the company calls its most agentic Sonnet yet. It can build plans on its own and use tools like browsers and terminals. In benchmarks, Sonnet 5 beats its ...
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Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API

Despite the speed focus, Google says Nano Banana 2 Lite still delivers reliable prompt following, consistent character rendering, and readable text in generated images. Beyond developer platforms, the ...
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Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia

Meituan trains a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model entirely on Chinese chips, no Nvidia required. "LongCat-2.0 has demonstrated that we now have the capability to train large-scale models on domestic ...
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Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of minor-perspective crisis prompts

Meta apparently tested rival chatbots like ChatGPT with prompts about suicide, sex, and drugs from the perspective of minors. Hundreds of contractors pretended to be minors and sent sensitive prompts ...
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Samsung and SK Hynix plan $590 billion chip investment as AI demand sends memory prices soaring

Samsung and SK Hynix, backed by the South Korean government, plan to pour $590 billion into expanding chip production. Of that total, 800 trillion won goes toward four new factories in the country's ...
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Taiwan raids Super Micro offices in probe over Nvidia chip smuggling to China

Taiwanese authorities raid Super Micro Computer offices and several local partner companies over alleged Nvidia chip smuggling to China. Super Micro is a US company headquartered in San Jose, ...
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OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 cheats a lot. That's the key finding from an independent evaluation by METR. During testing with software tasks, OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol showed the highest rate of ...
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NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust

Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University, warns that a potential crash in the AI sector could be more painful than the bursting of the dot-com bubble around 2000. In the podcast ...
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Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees in South Korea

Samsung Electronics is deploying ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all employees in South Korea and everyone in its Device eXperience (DX) division worldwide. According to OpenAI, it's one of the ...