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Claude Sonnet 5 continues Anthropic's pattern of hiding price increases behind unchanged token rates

In an independent test, Claude Sonnet 5 placed fifth and beat the pricier Opus 4.8 on some agent-based tasks. But its massive jump in token consumption makes the model more expensive per task than ...
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Anthropic's Fable 5 is back worldwide after a two-week government ban over a jailbreak

After a two-week suspension, the U.S. government has lifted export controls on Anthropic's second most powerful AI model, Fable 5, making it available worldwide again. The less restricted version, ...
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Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of minor-perspective crisis prompts

Meta apparently tested rival chatbots like ChatGPT with prompts about suicide, sex, and drugs from the perspective of minors. Hundreds of contractors pretended to be minors and sent sensitive prompts ...
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Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workspace built specifically for researchers

Anthropic released Claude Science, an AI workbench built for scientists. The app pulls together dozens of databases, tools, and packages in one interface. Researchers can analyze literature, run multi ...
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Anthropic's new Claude Sonnet 5 closes the gap to Opus model series

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, which the company calls its most agentic Sonnet yet. It can build plans on its own and use tools like browsers and terminals. In benchmarks, Sonnet 5 beats its ...
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Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast AI images and Gemini Omni Flash for video via API

Despite the speed focus, Google says Nano Banana 2 Lite still delivers reliable prompt following, consistent character rendering, and readable text in generated images. Beyond developer platforms, the ...
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Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in

Worried about rising costs, some Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models to build smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. That's according to a report from The Information.
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Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data

Meta is limiting how its engineers use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to prevent outputs from these AI tools from ending up in its own training data. According to internal documents ...
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The US military used AI to pick thousands of targets but missed a note saying one was a school

The probe into a missile strike on an Iranian school exposes serious gaps in the US military's targeting infrastructure. AI is supposed to close them. A missed note from an intelligence analyst and ...
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AWS says AI agents lack business context and security, launches two services to patch the gaps

Amazon is launching two new AWS services: AWS Continuum, which automates the fixing of code vulnerabilities, and AWS Context, which feeds AI agents business knowledge through a knowledge graph to ...
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NYU finance professor Damodaran warns an AI crash could hit harder than the dot-com bust

Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at New York University, warns that a potential crash in the AI sector could be more painful than the bursting of the dot-com bubble around 2000. In the podcast ...
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Google makes Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents

Google Deepmind has released the Interactions API as the default interface for Gemini models and agents. The API, in beta since December 2025, is now generally available and replaces the old ...