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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.
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| 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”.
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| 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 …
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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 …
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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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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's “dynamic view” option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output — I have a simple method for my own AI rankings: product delight. That is, when I use the various services from the players in AI … | Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 — Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns. Teens are distraught: ‘I cried over it for days.’| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 4.4% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.21B est., enterprise revenue up 6.1% YoY to $741.4M, and a Q4 revenue forecast above estimates — Zoom Communications Inc. reported quarterly revenue that topped analysts' estimates, a sign of strength for the software maker's expanded suite of business tools.| 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: Wall Street Journal, The Coin Republic, CNBC, and CoinDesk
| 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 … | 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 …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's November 21 labor law has granted legal status to millions of gig workers, but benefits are unclear and access to social security remains elusive — India has granted legal status to millions of gig and platform workers under its newly implemented labor laws, marking a milestone … | Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Internal memo: Amazon asks engineers to use its in-house AI coding assistant Kiro over third-party tools like Cursor, aiming to gather feedback for improvement — Amazon suggested its engineers eschew AI code generation tools from third-party companies in favor of its own … | 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: UPI, R Street Institute, and The Hill
| 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 …
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Forums: r/technology, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| 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: Benzinga, Digital Music News, and 9to5Mac
| 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, Hugging Face, PCMag, SiliconANGLE, MarkTechPost, and Thurrott
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