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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 -
Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: GPT-6 Sol costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, and GPT-6 Luna costs $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens, both about 50% cheaper than GPT-5.6 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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” -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Financial Times: In his UN General Assembly speech, Trump rejects a “globalist scheme to control” AI, saying the US is “leading now over China by a lot and everyone else” -
Laurie Chen / Reuters: Sources: DeepSeek and Moonshot are among the companies briefing the UN Security Council on AI risks and international security during the UN General Assembly -
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 -
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 -
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” -
Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal data: Meta's Muse surpassed 500,000 total users, including 250,000 daily active users, with more than 2M prompts submitted in its first week -
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 -
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 -
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 … -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
New! 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 … -
James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: Data security startup Cyera raised $400M from Goldman Sachs in a Series G extension, bringing its total funding since June 2025 to $1.94B -
Krystal Hu / Reuters: Snorkel AI, which offers an “agentic data development platform” with humans and AI agents to create and vet data, raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation