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AI in practice

Read full article about: Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in The effort ties back to a renegotiation of the partnership, ...
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AI and society

Read full article about: Anthropic doesn't need junior engineers anymore thanks to AI and warns of an economic shock when other industries follow "Returns on intuition": Why Anthropic no longer needs ...
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The US government may be asking Anthropic the impossible by demanding unhackable LLMs

Government officials accuse Anthropic of disregarding Trump's cyber directive and releasing Fable 5 without approval. "They ...
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OpenAI's GPT 5.6 rollout now requires US government approval on a "customer by customer basis"

OpenAI has to initially limit access to its latest AI model, GPT-5.6, to a small group of partners at the U.S. government's request. CEO Sam Altman announced this during an internal Q&A session on ...
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OpenAI launches Claude Mythos rival GPT-5.6 Sol under government access it calls unsustainable

OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 generation includes the flagship Sol and two cheaper tiers, Terra and Luna. Sol matches or beats Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 across benchmarks, with a clear lead in agentic coding ...
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Altman won't go public for less than $1 trillion, so OpenAI's IPO may slip to 2027

OpenAI is reportedly pushing its IPO to 2027 because CEO Sam Altman insists on a $1 trillion valuation. Advisors are recommending the delay due to volatile tech markets and SpaceX's weak post-IPO ...
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Half of Claude users say AI can already handle half their work according to Anthropic survey

About half of Claude users say AI can already handle half or more of their work. That's according to a survey of roughly 9,700 Claude users (Chat, Cowork, Code) by Anthropic. About 33 percent see AI ...
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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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Anthropic says Claude Code's usage drain comes down to peak-hour caps and ballooning contexts

Anthropic has looked into complaints from users who were hitting their Claude Code usage limits much faster than expected. According to Anthropic's Lydia Hallie, tighter limits during peak hours and ...
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The first AI proof worthy of math's top journal landed and it won't be the last

An internal reasoning model from OpenAI has disproved the so-called unit distance conjecture posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. OpenAI announced the result alongside a companion paper ...
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Meta's new AI model predicts how your brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech

A new AI model from Meta predicts how the human brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech. In tests, it often matched the typical brain response better than any single person's scan. Brain research ...
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Anthropic may keep supplying Claude to the NSA despite being flagged as a supply chain risk ...

Anthropic, which the US government has labeled a "supply chain risk," will likely keep delivering AI models to the NSA anyway. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles personally approved the ...