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November 25, 2025, 12:40 AM

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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.
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”.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:

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