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Anthropic:
Anthropic debuts Claude Sonnet 4.5, claims it is the world's best coding model, the strongest for building complex agents, and its “most aligned” frontier model  —  Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world.  It's the strongest model for building complex agents.
Hayden Field / The Verge:
Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 4.5 spent 30 hours running autonomously, writing 11,000 lines of code to build a chat app akin to Slack or Teams
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Anthropic prices Claude Sonnet 4.5 at $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens, same as Sonnet 4, cheaper than Opus at $15/$75 but higher than GPT-5 at $1.25/$10
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants  —  Arrows pointing outwards  —  OpenAI on Monday announced Instant Checkout, a new feature that allows users to buy products through …
Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET:
OpenAI is open sourcing the Agentic Commerce Protocol, a standard for AI commerce that powers its Instant Checkout feature and was co-developed with Stripe
Wall Street Journal:
Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after Jan. 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits  —  Google subsidiary is the last of three Big Tech companies to resolve personal litigation Trump filed against social-media platforms
Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico:
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 into law; the first-in-the-nation AI safety law requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes  —  “California has proven that we can establish regulations to protect our communities while also ensuring that the growing AI industry continues to thrive.
Wired:
Sources: OpenAI plans a stand-alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuring a TikTok-like vertical feed with entirely AI-generated videos  —  The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model.  —  OpenAI is preparing to launch …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI told studios that it plans to release a new version of Sora that creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out  —  Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week  —  OpenAI is planning to release a new version …
Electronic Arts:
EA to be acquired by Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for $210 per share, taking it private at a ~$55B valuation, set to close in Q1 FY27
CNBC:
A judge sentences Frank founder Charlie Javice to 85 months in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase by overstating how many customers the fintech company had  —  Charlie Javice, founder of a startup acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2021 for $175 million, was sentenced to just more than seven years …
Ana Ionova / New York Times:
How Brazil's Pix digital payment system, adopted by 80%+ of citizens, became a target of the Trump administration, which says it unfairly undercuts US companies  —  Brazil's fast and free homegrown digital payment system, PIX, has become wildly popular.  The Trump administration says it unfairly undercuts U.S. companies.
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Bluesky: @ddayen and @piyushmittal.  Forums: r/neoliberal
Kim Zetter / Wired:
Researchers: Tile tags broadcast unencrypted MAC addresses and unique IDs; researchers informed Life360 in November 2024 but it stopped replying in February  —  A team of researchers found that, by not encrypting the data broadcast by Tile tags, users could be vulnerable to having their location information exposed to malicious actors.
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions raised a $250M Series C at a $1.4B valuation; Arm joined the round as a strategic partner  —  Rebellions Inc. raised $250 million from investors including Arm Holdings Plc to mass produce its chip and speed up product development in a competitive AI market.
Crypto in America:
Sources: asset manager Vanguard, which has historically been critical of cryptocurrencies, prepares to allow access to crypto ETFs on its brokerage platform  —  The $10 trillion mutual fund giant has stayed on the sidelines of crypto — until now.  —  Crypto in America and Eleanor Terrett
Suzi Ring / Financial Times:
A Chinese woman pleads guilty in a London court to laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B Chinese investment scheme in which UK police seized 61,000 bitcoin in 2018  —  Woman admits £5bn investment fraud that she allegedly ran in China  —  A woman has pleaded guilty …

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CNBC:
James Cameron blasts Netflix's proposed acquisition of WBD, in a letter to Senator Mike Lee, calling it “disastrous for the theatrical motion picture business”

Marina Adami / Nieman Lab:
Editors and freelance journalists say AI has brought more productivity, increased expectations of speed, a need for more vetting, and sometimes job-loss fears

Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Substack announces new tools to help writers use Polymarket data and adds Polymarket to its sponsorship pilot, prompting questions from some journalists

More News

Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Open-source Android app store F-Droid says Google's upcoming requirement for all Android devs to verify their identity threatens to kill alternative app stores
Bernard Goyder / Bloomberg:
Robinhood CEO Vladimir Tenev says Robinhood Prediction Markets crossed 4B event contracts traded all-time, with over 2B in Q3 alone; HOOD closed up 12.27%
Bloomberg:
Swift says it is building a blockchain-based ledger with over 30 financial institutions and the first prototype will be built in partnership with Consensys

Earlier Picks

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft launches Agent Mode in Excel and Word, using GPT-5 to generate complex spreadsheets and documents, saying it is “bringing vibe working” to 365 Copilot
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, saying it built the model using a new technique called DeepSeek Sparse Attention, and halves the pricing of its tools
Wired:
Marissa Mayer to dissolve her old startup Sunshine, founded in 2018, and sell its assets to her new company Dazzle, which sources say is making an AI assistant
Reece Rogers / Wired:
OpenAI launches new ChatGPT parental safety controls for users aged 13 to 18, including parental and law enforcement alerts for chats about self-harm or suicide
Bloomberg:
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US aims to get “maybe 50% market share” of chip and wafer production to offset Beijing's threats to invade Taiwan
Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal:
The UK government underwrites a £1.5B loan to Jaguar Land Rover as the carmaker reels from a cyberattack that has crippled its production for around a month
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