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| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost — GPT-6 Sol and Luna arrive less than three months after GPT-5.6, with OpenAI claiming major accuracy gains, dramatic cost reductions …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's “pace the frontier” essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior — Claude Opus 5.5 comes with improvements to certain behaviors, like attempting to escape testing environments.
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| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Anthropic says Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 “on most tasks” while costing about 40% less to run than Opus 5; Opus 5.5 costs $4/1M input and $20/1M output tokens — Ask about this article... According to Anthropic, Opus 5.5 matches Claude Fable 5.1 “on most tasks” while costing about 40 percent less to run than Opus 5.| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic raises its five-hour usage limits by 20% on Pro, Max, and Team plans, and gives subscription users a rate limit reset — Anthropic's newest Claude model aims to make frontier AI cheaper, faster, and safer, while giving subscribers more breathing room before those frustrating usage limits kick in.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft lays off 268 Xbox staffers across Halo and other studios, as part of an ongoing gaming “reset”; Activision will take over Halo and two other games — Deals to sell off Ninja Theory fell through over the summer. … Microsoft is laying off around 260 Xbox employees today …
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Xbox has become a shell of its former self, weighed down by job cuts and studio closures, as it focuses on franchises like Halo and reaching “a billion people” — The latest changes at Microsoft's gaming division signal a further retreat from the Xbox brand.
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| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
ShinyHunters claims it used an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to hack FBI-related services and steal employee and applicant data; it also defaced the FBI jobs site — A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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| Heather Knight / New York Times: |
San Francisco sues Trump Media & Technology, claiming its Truth API service violates California's Unfair Competition Law by creating an insider trading market — The city attorney argued that the service, available for up to $100,000 a month, could allow wealthy traders to manipulate the market … | Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
In his UN General Assembly speech, President Trump says the US is “officially” renaming AI to “super intelligence” because “artificial” makes it sound fake — The president claims the word ‘artificial’ makes intelligence fake.
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| Axel Metz / TechRadar: |
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both on TSMC's 2nm process, with two 5GHz prime cores and six 4GHz performance cores — Extreme by name, extreme by nature — Qualcomm has announced not one, but two new flagship mobile chipsets at its annual Snapdragon Summit …
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| Semafor: |
Sources: Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for the AI czar position; other names include WH OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and OPM Director Scott Kupor — THE SCOOP — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for President Donald Trump's new “AI czar” … | Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
Discord rolls out its updated age-verification policy this week, sorting users into either the Adult or Teen group based on account age, activity levels, more — It will offer several privacy-focused options for users who aren't automatically confirmed as adults.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Nat Friedman says Meta built Muse “from scratch” but was “heavily inspired” by OpenClaw, as users compare the two, including calling Muse “OpenClaw for normies” — Early adopters of Meta's Muse have been speculating that the reason the AI works …
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says it plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases — OpenAI plans to let third-party groups vet its artificial intelligence models for safety risks in earlier phases of the development cycle …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is developing prototypes for a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop but hasn't decided whether to release the product — Apple Inc. is developing a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop Inc.'s wrist-worn device, part of an effort to rethink …
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Firecrawl, which provides web scraping tools for AI agents, raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital — Firecrawl Inc., a provider of web scraping tools for artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding. — Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Smash Ventures led the Series B round.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~$1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $5B valuation — Mirendil, an artificial intelligence startup launched by former Anthropic PBC researchers, is in talks to raise a new round of funding … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
New York-based Ande, whose AI agents help businesses arrange corporate events for employees or customers, emerges from stealth with $52M in seed and Series A — Personal AI agents like Instinct and Muse have promised to take away the hassle of booking hard-to-get restaurant reservations, Broadway tickets and sporting events.
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Rabbit launches OS3, a cloud AI agent that connects to local apps and files on Windows, Mac, and Linux and works via web, Telegram, iMessage, or its R1 device — Two years after trying to sidestep mobile apps with dedicated AI hardware, Rabbit is launching OS3, a cross-platform agent that lives on the screens you already use.
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| CoinDesk: |
Binance acquires a $100M stake in Circle, and both companies sign a five-year deal that pays the crypto exchange to promote the USDC stablecoin on its platform — Binance bought $100 million of Circle shares as the companies signed a five-year deal that pays the crypto exchange to promote the USDC stablecoin on its platform.| Ece Yildirim / Gizmodo: |
Six major banks, including BOA and Capital One, warn that increased autonomy for agentic commerce chatbots could lead to more scams, fraud, and disputes — Agentic commerce could increase the amount of scams, fraud and disputes, the banks warn in a new report.| Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
Go.AI, which offers on-premises AI hardware and software tools for regulated organizations like banks, raised an $85M Series A led by Updata Partners — Go.AI, which sells AI hardware appliances to banks, raised $85 million in Series A funding, CEO David Moscatelli tells Axios Pro exclusively.
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| Nancy Lapid / Reuters: |
Anthropic and OpenEvidence partner to offer a specialized version of OpenEvidence's AI search tool for physicians in about 100 low- and middle-income countries — Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic and medical knowledge platform OpenEvidence are collaborating to bring AI-powered … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
TikTok US joins child safety initiative Lantern, which says members like Meta and X shared 2M+ signals of potentially violating behavior from 2023 through 2025 — Eight months after it was spun out of TikTok, the social media platform's U.S. unit, known as TikTok USDS Joint Venture … | Bloomberg: |
Alibaba says it plans to build its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland, and the Netherlands over the next 12 months, amid escalating US-China AI tensions — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is accelerating its data center expansion in Europe and the Middle East, propelling …
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| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Sources: AI training data startup Micro1 raised $100M+ at a $4B valuation, up from $500M in September 2025 — At the beginning of last year, Ali Ansari's company, Micro1, was a recruiting business with $7 million in ARR. It's now generating over $500 million in ARR and two xAI cofounders invested its latest round.| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
DoorDash agrees to a $131.5M settlement with NYC's DCWP to resolve a year-plus investigation into its compliance with the city's 2023 delivery driver pay law — DoorDash will pay $131.5 million to settle an investigation by New York City regulators into the company's compliance with pay laws for food-delivery workers.
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