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November 24, 2025, 8:10 PM

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Anthropic:
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, which the company says is “the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use”  —  Our newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is available today.  It's intelligent, efficient, and the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use.
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Anthropic says Opus 4.5 outscored all humans on a take-home exam it gives to prospective performance engineering candidates, within a prescribed two-hour limit  —  Anthropic released its most capable artificial intelligence model yet on Monday, slashing prices by roughly two-thirds …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Anthropic prices Claude Opus 4.5 at $5/1M input and $25/1M output tokens, much cheaper than Opus 4.1 at $15/$75 but still pricier than GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro  —  Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 this morning, which they call “best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use”.
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack:
Anthropic unveils two Claude Code upgrades: a new plan mode that creates more precise plans, and support for Claude Code in the Claude desktop app  —  Anthropic today launched the latest version of its flagship Opus model: Opus 4.5.  —  The company calls it its most intelligent model yet …
David Shepardson / Reuters:
Trump signs an EO establishing the Genesis Mission to boost AI innovation, including by using federal scientific datasets to train models and create AI agents  —  President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to launch a government-wide effort to build an integrated artificial …
Eric Revell / Fox Business:
AWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build AI and HPC infrastructure for the US government, starting in 2026 and adding nearly 1.3 GW of capacity  —  AWS CEO says investment will remove technology barriers holding back federal agencies  —  EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Web Services (AWS) …
Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET:
OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — OpenAI released a shopping research feature in ChatGPT.  — The experience helps you find products and deals.
Tae Kim / Barron's Online:
Nvidia refuted accounting questions in a memo to analysts, saying “Unlike Enron, NVIDIA does not use Special Purpose Entities to hide debt and inflate revenue”  —  A series of prominent stock sales and allegations of accounting irregularities have put Nvidia NVDA +2.05% in the middle …
The Information:
Sources: Google has begun pitching customers, including Meta and big financial institutions, on the idea of using TPUs in their own data centers  —  Google is picking up the pace of its efforts to compete directly with Nvidia in the AI chip business.  —  For years, the search giant has rented …
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple cut dozens of sales roles to streamline sales to businesses, schools, and governments; Apple says the changes affect “a small number of roles”  —  Apple Inc. has eliminated dozens of sales roles in a bid to streamline the way it offers products to businesses …
Ben Dickson / VentureBeat:
Microsoft unveils Fara-7B, its first agentic SLM designed for computer use, available as an experimental release on Hugging Face and Microsoft Foundry  —  Microsoft has introduced Fara-7B, a new 7-billion parameter model designed to act as a Computer Use Agent (CUA) capable of performing complex tasks directly on a user's device.
Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg:
Revolut reaches a $75B valuation in its latest share sale led by Coatue, Greenoaks, and others, up from $45B in 2024, making it Europe's most valuable startup  —  Revolut Ltd. garnered a $75 billion valuation in its latest share sale after months of courting investors, a steep increase …
Loren Grush / Bloomberg:
Amazon begins previewing its Amazon Leo satellite internet system for a select group of customers, ahead of a wider public rollout planned for 2026  —  Takeaways by Bloomberg AI Amazon Leo has begun previewing its service for a select group of customers ahead of a wider public rollout planned for next year.
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year  —  Increase will come as music-streaming company aims for continued profitability  —  Spotify is preparing to raise US subscription prices …
More: Reuters and 9to5Mac
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post:
The US DOJ settles its case against RealPage, which was accused of building algorithms that allowed landlords to illegally collude to drive up rental prices  —  The Justice Department has settled its case against real estate tech firm RealPage, which faced bombshell allegations of building algorithms …
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
OpenAI confirms Andrea Vallone, the head of an OpenAI safety research team that works on ChatGPT's mental health responses, is set to leave at the end of 2025  —  The model policy team leads core parts of AI safety research, including how ChatGPT responds to users in crisis.
Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal:
How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions  —  Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions  —  It seems like a marvel of financial engineering …
Emilio Parodi / Reuters:
Sources: Italian police raided two Amazon sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports  —  - Italian police raid Amazon sites in probe of Chinese goods  — Prosecutors see Amazon as ‘Trojan horse’ for tax-free imports
Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal:
How the US' annualized 1.6% GDP growth in H1 was heavily dependent on AI-related investments, which might have accounted for as much as 50% of the growth  —  Growth has been bolstered by data-center investment and stock-market wealth.  A reversal could raise the risk of recession.
New York Times:
Banking tech vendor SitusAMC says it suffered a November 12 hack that could expose sensitive customer data; sources say JPMorgan, Citi, and others are impacted  —  SitusAMC, a technology vendor for real estate lenders, holds sensitive personal information on the clients of hundreds of its banking customers, including JPMorgan Chase.

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