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Anthropic drops the surcharge for million-token context windows, making Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 far cheaper

Anthropic is making Claude's extra-large context window a lot cheaper. The Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 models now offer a context window of one million tokens at the standard price. Until now, Anthropic ...
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Microsoft and rival AI researchers unite to back Anthropic in its escalating legal battle against the Pentagon

A broad coalition is backing Anthropic in its legal fight with the US Department of Defense. Microsoft, dozens of OpenAI and Google employees, former military leaders, and civil rights organizations ...
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Google explains the differences between its three Nano Banana image generation models

Google has broken down the three models in the Nano Banana family in a detailed guide. Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), which delivers roughly 95 percent of the capabilities of the pricier Nano ...
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Meta acquires Moltbook, the Reddit-style platform built for AI agents

Meta has acquired Moltbook, a platform best described as a Reddit for AI agents. Founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr are joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs (MSL), led by former Scale AI CEO ...
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OpenAI is building a GitHub competitor that could challenge its biggest investor

OpenAI is building its own alternative to GitHub, Microsoft's widely used platform for code management and collaboration, according to The Information. The move was triggered by a string of GitHub ...
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Bytedance secures access to Nvidia Blackwell cluster in Malaysia, circumventing US export ban on China

According to the Wall Street Journal, ByteDance is planning around 500 Nvidia Blackwell systems with around 36,000 B200 chips in Malaysia. The costs are in excess of 2.5 billion US dollars. The chips ...
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Amazon gets court order blocking Perplexity's AI shopping agent

A federal court in San Francisco has granted Amazon an injunction against AI startup Perplexity, barring it from using its AI browser agent Comet to make purchases on Amazon. Amazon sued Perplexity in ...
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Claude Code gets parallel AI agents that review code for bugs and security gaps

Anthropic has released a code review feature for Claude Code that automatically checks changes for errors before they're merged. Multiple AI agents work in parallel to catch bugs, security ...
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the answers itself

Anthropic's AI model Claude Opus 4.6 independently recognized that it was being tested in a web research benchmark, identified the specific benchmark, and cracked its encrypted answer key. After an ...
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OpenAI employees hint at a new omni model

OpenAI appears to be developing a new multimodal model, potentially a successor to GPT-4o. Recent posts from OpenAI employees are fueling the speculation. Atty Eleti from the Voice team wrote that ...
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AI agent benchmarks obsess over coding while ignoring 92% of the US labor market, study finds

A study by Carnegie Mellon and Stanford University reveals that current AI agent benchmarks are heavily skewed toward programming tasks, while economically significant fields like management or law ...
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Study warns of "AI Brain Fry" as workers hit cognitive limits overseeing AI agents

The productivity curve is particularly revealing. Going from one to two simultaneous AI tools, perceived productivity rises significantly. At three tools, it peaks. Beyond four, it drops again.