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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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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 …
More: Reuters, Bloomberg Law, Android Headlines, ITPro, Yahoo Finance, Fast Company, Databricks, BGR, and Barron's Online
| 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 and Yahoo Finance
| 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”.| 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.
More: OpenAI, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, The Information, MacRumors, The Aisle, CNET, Gizmodo, Thurrott, Axios, Tech in Asia, TestingCatalog, Search Engine Journal, 9to5Mac, CNBC, Implicator.ai, PCMag, Modern Retail, Sourcing Journal, WinBuzzer, and Bloomberg
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| Axios: |
Trump signs an EO establishing the “Genesis Mission” to boost AI research, encouraging government information sharing with industry, academia, and others — President Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at boosting AI research and development, with an eye toward reducing Americans' spiraling energy costs.
More: The White House, Bloomberg, Decrypt, The Hill, NBC News, Le Monde, CNN, Reuters, New York Post, Politico, The Independent, HPCwire, Broadband Breakfast, Fox News, CBS News, and IJR
| 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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| 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| 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: Investor's Business Daily and Benzinga
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| 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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| 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, Reuters, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iClarified, Channel NewsAsia, Livemint, MacTech.com, and MacDailyNews
Forums: 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 … | 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 — Amazon Leo, the recently rebranded satellite-internet system meant to rival SpaceX's Starlink, has begun previewing its service for a select group …
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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, PCMag, Thurrott, and Hugging Face
| 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.| 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: Gizmodo, USA Today, San Francisco Business Times, and Australian Financial Review
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, and r/technews
| New York Times: |
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Bluesky: @amanda.omg.lol, @kashhill, @carlquintanilla, @nsaphra, @kashhill, @sheeraf, @shiraovide, and @triangulator.org
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| 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.| Kritika Lamba / Reuters: |
Grindr ends talks on a $3.46B take-private deal by shareholders Ray Zage and James Lu, who own 60%+ of Grindr, citing uncertainty over the deal's financing — Dating app Grindr (GRND.N) said on Monday it has ended talks on a $3.46 billion take-private deal by its two largest shareholders, citing uncertainty over the deal's financing.
More: The Information, Proactive, Business Wire, and Benzinga
| 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 … | 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
| 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 … | 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
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