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

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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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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Bytedance secures access to Nvidia Blackwell cluster in Malaysia, circumventing US export ...

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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Deepfakes: How it all began - and where it could lead us

AI-faked images and videos - so-called deepfakes - have developed rapidly in recent years. Here, we trace the history and describe the most important milestones. What do all the people in the cover ...
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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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Microsoft and rival AI researchers unite to back Anthropic in its escalating legal battle ...

In the legal dispute between Anthropic and the US Department of War, Microsoft, 37 employees of OpenAI and Google DeepMind, 22 former high-ranking military officials, and civil rights organizations ...
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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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ChatGPT Guide: Use these prompt strategies to maximize your results

Article fundamentally restructured and expanded. Information on models and functions updated. What is the best way to interact with ChatGPT? There is virtually no right or wrong way to interact with ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the ...

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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Claude Opus 4.5 resists prompt injections better than rivals but still falls to strong ...

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher than its rivals in prompt-injection security, but the results show how limited these defenses still are. A benchmark by the security firm Gray Swan found that a single ...
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Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses now record your voice by default to train Meta's AI models

Meta has updated its U.S. privacy policy for the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to enable automatic voice recording by default. These recordings can now be used to train Meta AI and other Meta products.