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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic debuts Claude Sonnet 4.5, claims it is the world's best coding model, the strongest for building complex agents, and its “most aligned” frontier model — Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the best coding model in the world. It's the strongest model for building complex agents.
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants — Arrows pointing outwards — OpenAI on Monday announced Instant Checkout, a new feature that allows users to buy products through …
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LinkedIn: Lily Ray, Jason Goldberg, and Ashley Capoot
Forums: Hacker News and MacRumors Forums
| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
More: Finextra, Stripe, and Blockchain.News
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| Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 into law; the first-in-the-nation AI safety law requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes — “California has proven that we can establish regulations to protect our communities while also ensuring that the growing AI industry continues to thrive.
More: New York Times, Governor of California, TechCrunch, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg Law, KSTP-TV, and Axios
| Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after Jan. 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits — Google subsidiary is the last of three Big Tech companies to resolve personal litigation Trump filed against social-media platforms
More: The Information, Bloomberg Law, Reuters, The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter, Business Insider, Bloomberg Law, Cord Cutters News, The Gateway Pundit, Times Now, The Post Millennial, and Variety
Bluesky: @maddowblog.msnbc.com and @35mmpapi.com
Forums: r/law and r/politics
| Electronic Arts: |
EA to be acquired by Saudi Arabia's PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for $210 per share, taking it private at a ~$55B valuation, set to close in Q1 FY27 — Accelerates EA's Strategic Vision to Advance the Future of Entertainment — Stockholders to Receive $210 Per Share …
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Wired: |
Sources: OpenAI plans a stand-alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuring a TikTok-like vertical feed with AI-generated videos and a recommendation page — The platform appears to closely resemble TikTok and is powered by Sora 2, OpenAI's latest video generation model.
More: Gizmodo, Engadget, Techstrong.ai, Android Central, Crypto Briefing, and Sherwood News
Forums: r/artificial and r/technology
| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
OpenAI launches new ChatGPT parental safety controls for users aged 13 to 18, including parental and law enforcement alerts for chats about self-harm or suicide — OpenAI's review process for teenage ChatGPT users who are flagged for suicidal ideation includes human moderators.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft launches Agent Mode in Excel and Word, using GPT-5 to generate complex spreadsheets and documents, saying it is “bringing vibe working” to 365 Copilot — A new Agent Mode comes to Office apps today, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, saying it built the model using a new technique called DeepSeek Sparse Attention, and halves the pricing of its tools — DeepSeek updated an experimental AI model Monday in what it called a step toward next-generation artificial intelligence.
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Bluesky: @timkellogg.me and @isolyth.dev
Forums: r/singularity and r/LocalLLaMA
| Wired: |
Marissa Mayer to dissolve her old startup Sunshine, founded in 2018, and sell its assets to her new company Dazzle, which sources say is making an AI assistant — After seven rocky years, the company's assets will be sold to Dazzle, a new AI firm that Mayer founded.
More: TechCrunch and Business Insider
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Researchers: Tile tags broadcast unencrypted MAC addresses and unique IDs; researchers informed Life360 in November 2024 but it stopped replying in February — A team of researchers found that, by not encrypting the data broadcast by Tile tags, users could be vulnerable to having their location information exposed to malicious actors.
More: Android Police, Engadget, Android Authority, and Tom's Hardware
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI told studios that it plans to release a new version of Sora that creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out — Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week — OpenAI is planning to release a new version …
More: Reuters and France 24
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| Bloomberg: |
Swift says it is building a blockchain-based ledger with over 30 financial institutions and the first prototype will be built in partnership with Consensys — Swift, the entity that runs the messaging system used by financial institutions globally to send instructions on tens of millions … | Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal: |
The UK government underwrites a £1.5B loan to Jaguar Land Rover as the carmaker reels from a cyberattack that has crippled its production for around a month — The loan is to support the company's cash reserves and help it pay suppliers — The U.K. government has stepped …
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Forums: r/worldnews and r/business
| Jackson Chen / Engadget: |
Snapchat announces it will limit storage for its Memories feature to 5GB for free users and launches paid storage plans, including 100GB for $1.99 per month — The introductory plan that offers up to 100GB of storage for Memories will cost you $1.99 a month.| Crypto in America: |
Sources: asset manager Vanguard, which has historically been critical of cryptocurrencies, prepares to allow access to crypto ETFs on its brokerage platform — The $10 trillion mutual fund giant has stayed on the sidelines of crypto — until now. — Crypto in America and Eleanor Terrett
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out its new gradient “G” icon company-wide, saying it “now represents all of Google ... and visually reflects our evolution in the AI era” — After introducing for Google Search in May, the gradient ‘G’ icon will now be used across the company.
More: The Keyword, The Verge, Chrome Unboxed, Android Authority, Moneycontrol, and Droid Life
| Bernard Goyder / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood CEO Vladimir Tenev says Robinhood Prediction Markets crossed 4B event contracts traded all-time, with over 2B in Q3 alone; HOOD closes up 12.27% — Robinhood Markets Inc. shares rose over 12% after Chief Executive Officer Vladimir Tenev said the online-stock brokerage …
More: Yahoo Finance, Blockchain.News, Benzinga, TheStreet, and Watcher Guru
| CNBC: |
A judge sentences Frank founder Charlie Javice to 85 months in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase by overstating how many customers the fintech company had — Charlie Javice, founder of a startup acquired by JPMorgan Chase in 2021 for $175 million, was sentenced to just more than seven years … | Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Automated financial advisor startup Wealthfront files publicly for an IPO and reports net income of $60.7M on revenue of $175.6M in H1 2025 — Wealthfront Corp., a robo-advisory firm, filed publicly for an IPO amid a slew of fintech companies pursuing long-awaited listings.
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