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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.
More: Anthropic, Claude Docs, Ars Technica, MacRumors, The Verge, The Register, Windows Report, Simon Willison's Weblog, The Decoder, Implicator.ai, Engadget, Business Insider, CNBC, Tom's Guide, CNET, Every, 9to5Mac, SiliconANGLE, Unite.AI, WinBuzzer, Microsoft Azure, TestingCatalog, and ZDNET
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/ChatGPTCoding
| 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”.
More: Techstrong.ai. X: @johnonolan, @zephyr_z9, @teortaxestex, @mattshumer_, @sqs, @theo, @thezvi, @scaling01, @alexalbert__, and @simonw
| 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 …
More: TestingCatalog
| 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 …
More: The White House, Axios, Decrypt, The Hill, NBC News, Bloomberg, Le Monde, CNN, CBS News, Blockchain.News, New York Post, FedScoop, HPCwire, Broadband Breakfast, Politico, The Independent, IJR, and Fox News
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| 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) …
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| 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.
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| 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 …
More: The Verge, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Cassandra Unchained, and Fortune
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
In an interview with Laurene Powell Jobs, Sam Altman and Jony Ive said they are prototyping OpenAI's device and that it could arrive in “less than” two years — OpenAI's first piece of hardware could arrive in “less than” two years, according to Ive| 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 …
More: The Register, AppleInsider, Reuters, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Livemint, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Channel NewsAsia, iClarified, and MacTech.com
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
More: Bloomberg, Investor's Business Daily, and Benzinga
| 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 …
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X: @harrystebbings, @maxkarpis, @coatuemgmt, @revolut, and @aleximm
| 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.
More: About Amazon, PCMag, CNBC, TechPowerUp, GeekWire, Benzinga, and The Verge
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| Jaures Yip / CNBC: |
A US judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking OpenAI from using the word “cameo” for Sora features, following a trademark lawsuit by video app Cameo — OpenAI will not be allowed use the word “cameo” to name any products or features in its Sora app for a month … | 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.
More: Microsoft Research, SiliconANGLE, Hugging Face, PCMag, and Thurrott
X: @msftresearch, @corby_rosset, @hsseinmzannar, @rangthang, @ahmedhawadallah, @kylejeong, and @peteratmsr. LinkedIn: Vivek Pradeep. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| 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 …
More: New York Times, The Verge, Reuters, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Law, The Real Deal, US Department of Justice, Los Angeles Times, and naked capitalism
X: @matthewstoller, @leehepner, @leehepner, @aagslater, @ddayen, @ddayen, @reed_showalter, and @balancecrafting. Bluesky: @marypcbuk
| CNBC: |
Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future launches a $10M media campaign to push Congress to craft a national AI policy that will override a patchwork of state laws — A super PAC backed by the artificial intelligence industry on Monday launched a $10 million campaign to push Congress to craft …
More: R Street Institute. X: @teddyschleifer, @shakeelhashim, @_nathancalvin, and @buildamericanai. Forums: r/technology
| 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.
More: USA Today, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, San Francisco Business Times, Digital Trends, New York Times, and Marcus on AI
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, and r/technews
| Bloomberg: |
Investors have pulled $3.5B from US-listed bitcoin ETFs so far in November, almost equaling the previous monthly record for outflows of $3.6B set in February — Exchange-traded funds investing in Bitcoin are heading for their worst month of outflows since launching nearly two years ago …
More: CNBC, Wall Street Journal, CoinDesk, crypto.news, Reason, and Coinspeaker
| 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 …
More: Common Dreams. X: @epsilontheory and @langwiser
Bluesky: @paris.nyc, @karaswisher, @davelee.me, @peark.es, @devilstower, and @justinhendrix
| 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
More: Capital Brief
| 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 … | Aleksandra Sagan / The Logic: |
Sources: Shopify salespeople engaged in a sales fraud scheme inflating deal values for over a year, leading to internal investigations in mid-2024 and firings — Shopify salespeople were inflating the value of the deals they were closing. When management found out, they told staff to own up or face the consequences.
More: PYMNTS.com and Globe and Mail
| 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.
More: Yahoo Finance. X: @garymarcus, @davidsacks, @buccocapital, @benitoz, @jacobm, @teroterotero, and @buccocapital
| 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.| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba says its Qwen app drew 10M+ downloads in the week after its relaunch, one of the fastest app adoption rates behind ChatGPT, particularly in China — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s Qwen app drew more than 10 million downloads in the week after its relaunch, boding well for a longer-term effort …
More: Techstrong.ai, Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, Proactive, Blockonomi, and Tech in Asia
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