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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Anthropic accuses Deepseek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of stealing Claude's AI data through 16 ...

Anthropic says it has caught Chinese AI labs Deepseek, Moonshot, and MiniMax running large-scale distillation attacks on Claude, a technique where a weaker model learns from the output of a stronger ...