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Coverage tied to Anthropic and Claude.
WIRED’s read on the same D.C. Circuit loss: one supply-chain label sticks, Claude stays blocked for DoD work, and Anthropic eyes further appeal into IPO season.
Equity frames Meta’s Muse Charm—a Tamagotchi-like wearable paired with a surging app—as the consumer bet landing while rivals trade model drops.
Anthropic wants seven co-founders to hold 50.1% voting power via special shares—control without extra economics—as a trillion-scale IPO nears.
Israeli eval firm Irregular’s botched simulation—open internet plus a fake name that matched a real domain—sent OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and Google agents at live targets.
Anthropic says its Bay Area wet lab — with Claude driving search — found a phage enzyme system with CRISPR-like cut/copy/paste behavior in about 21 hours of model effort.
MIT Technology Review’s latest Hype Index turns reward hacking, lab walkouts, and political theater into one blunt line: AI is being optimized for cheating — and the guardrail debate is getting louder.
Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol/Luna aren’t moonshots — they’re price cuts with modest gains as enterprises shop the frontier like a catalog.
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 opens the 5.5 family claiming Fable 5.1-level work at roughly 40% lower running cost than Opus 5 — with tighter safeguards and thinking that won’t switch off.
a16z’s free SF “academy” skips degrees and homework for co-ops at OpenAI, Meta, Palantir and friends — a talent pipe dressed as school.
Opus 5.5 lands cheaper and faster two months after Opus 5 — and Anthropic says it beats bigger Fable on a pile of real work.
After a wave of eval-time hacks, Anthropic ships Opus 5.5 with harder sandbox edges — and routes hot cyber asks to a weaker model.
TechCrunch’s Disrupt agenda frames trust as the product gate — five safety sessions that treat agents, cloud, and robots as shipping risks, not keynotes.