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Signal: Both frontier labs cut prices ten days after asking the industry to slow down, while Trump told the UN nobody gets to govern it.
Ten Days After Asking for a Slowdown, Both Labs Halve Prices
OpenAI cut GPT-6 API prices 50% with Sol and Luna minutes after Anthropic's Opus 5.5 landed at 40% lower running cost - the first releases since Amodei's pacing call, and both labs name cheap Chinese open weights as the pressure.
The Decoder: GPT-6 Sol and Luna halve prices but barely move performance The Verge: Opus 5.5 ships with stricter cyber safeguards after the escape incidents The Decoder: Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 at 40% lower cost
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Beijing Probes DeepSeek, Moonshot for Feeding Claude
China's internet regulator is examining whether police, military and corporate data reached Anthropic after the US lab said its labs pushed millions of exchanges through Claude to distill it - per The Information, with no sanctions announced.
The Decoder: Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 tops open models; Xiaomi is also on Anthropic's list
Amazon Locks Muse Out. Shopify Lets It Buy. Barron's: PayPal opens its checkout to Muse a day after Shopify
Alibaba's New Chip, a 10-Trillion Model and a 20GW Bet SCMP: Alibaba teases a model of up to 10 trillion parameters
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWChatbot-for-Hire Read 12,000 Inboxes. Two Arrested. The Record: two arrested in the UK, 50 phishing sites seized
Palo Alto Puts Mythos on 24/7 Attack Duty The Record: UK's NCSC says AI will help attackers more than defenders
Malware That Takes Orders From Four LLMs Cisco Talos: introducing CAIRN, tracking for AI-integrated malware
The WorkbenchTools and agents
AWS Open-Sources a Rival to Claude Code's Harness AWS: Strands Evals scores skill-equipped agents on Bedrock AgentCore
NEWAlphabet Gives Away Its Robot Control Stack Assembly: hardware-agnostic real-time control, released at ROSCon
NEWZ.ai Apologizes, Open-Sources the Harness That Took Your Code
The FightLaw, policy and power
After 120 Children Died, Centcom Rebuilt Its AI Targeting
Officials say Centcom changed how it vets targets, added open-source feeds to track civilians and made dozens of upgrades to Palantir's Maven after the Minab school strike - the Pentagon's own review is still unreleased, and some officials warn another Minab remains too likely.
NEWTrump Rejects Global AI Rules, Renames It 'Super Intelligence'
The US 'totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control' AI, Trump told the assembly, and ordered every federal document to say 'super intelligence' - a name he settled by social-media poll, a day before Amodei and Altman brief the Security Council.
Gizmodo: the name came from three rounds of Truth Social and X voting
B.C. Sues OpenAI Over Tumbler Ridge Chats It Won't Hand Over Ars Technica: the province asks the court to force the chat logs public
Amodei Joins Altman, DeepSeek at the UN Council The Next Web: Amodei to brief the Security Council remotely, Bloomberg reports
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Banks: Shopping Agents Outrun Fraud Rules
NEWA16z Opens a $42M School With No Degree and No Homework
Abbott Freezes Every Texas Data Center Permit WTOC: Georgia residents sue over OpenAI's secret 3.2GW Effingham data center deal
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Stanford Ads Used AI to Swap Students' Race
NEWMuse's Phone Calls Are Placed by People in a Call Center
Ghost Note OpenAI's Trainers Fired for Using AI
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