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Anthropic says stronger AI models cut better deals, and the losers don't even notice

In a week-long experiment called "Project Deal," Anthropic had AI agents from the Claude model family independently negotiate and trade real goods on behalf of employees. The more capable Claude Opus ...
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OpenAI unveils GPT-5.5, claims a "new class of intelligence" at double the API price

GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro are now both available through OpenAI's Responses and Chat Completions API, each with a one million token context window. "Agents built with GPT-5.5 can plan, gather context, ...
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Anthropic confirms Claude Code problems and promises stricter quality controls

Following user complaints about declining quality in Claude Code, Anthropic identified and fixed three separate bugs affecting reasoning depth, caching, and text length restrictions. To prevent ...
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As agentic AI pushes rivals to raise prices and cap usage, Deepseek ships a good-enough model for almost nothing

Chinese AI lab Deepseek has released V4-Pro and V4-Flash as open-weight models with up to 1.6 trillion parameters and a one-million-token context window. A new architecture dramatically cuts the ...
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Sony AI builds the first robot to reach expert level in a sport

Sony's table tennis robot "Ace" is the first robot to reach expert-level performance in a sport, according to the company. In matches played under the official rules of the International Table Tennis ...
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OpenAI releases open-source model that strips personal data from text

OpenAI has published "Privacy Filter," an open-source AI model that runs locally and automatically redacts personal data from text before further processing. The ...
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Trump science advisor says Chinese actors are copying American AI at massive scale

The US government says China is systematically copying American AI models at massive scale. According to a memo from Michael Kratsios, President Trump's science advisor, foreign actors are using tens ...
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Ex-OpenAI researcher Jerry Tworek launches Core Automation to build the most automated AI lab in the world

Jerry Tworek, a former OpenAI researcher, has unveiled his new AI lab, "Core Automation," with the goal of building "the most automated AI lab in the world," starting by automating its own research.
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OpenAI launches workspace agents that turn ChatGPT from a chatbot into a team automation platform

OpenAI has launched workspace agents in ChatGPT, powered by Codex, that go beyond previous custom GPTs by autonomously handling complex, multi-step team tasks. These agents operate within their own ...
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Unauthorized users breach Anthropic's restricted Mythos AI model

A small group of unauthorized users gained access to Anthropic's new AI model Claude Mythos, Bloomberg reports. Anthropic considers Mythos powerful enough to enable dangerous cyberattacks, which is ...
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Open-weight Kimi K2.6 takes on GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 with agent swarms

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.6 as an open-weight model. It's built to match GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks, and it can run up to 300 agents in parallel. Moonshot AI says K2.6 ...
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google team up against unauthorized Chinese model copying

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have started working together to combat the unauthorized copying of their AI models by Chinese competitors, according to Bloomberg. The three companies are sharing ...