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Anthropic unveils first model since call to slow AI

While its CEO has called for a slowdown in AI development, Anthropic is launching a powerful and less expensive new model.

Anthropic Releases a New ‘Safest’ A.I. Model Amid Slowdown Debate

Anthropic is launching a new AI model designed to accomplish a wide range of business tasks at a lower cost, as the startup seeks to stay ahead of the competition before its initial public offering. The new model, called Claude Opus 5.5, offers performance similar to Fable 5.1, but at a significantly lower cost. According to the company, the new model produces output faster than Opus 5, and tests have shown it writes more clearly. Anthropic plans to expand the 5.5 model family with the release of new versions of Claude Sonnet and Haiku in the coming weeks. #Arabic_Business

Anthropic launches a cheaper, high-end model amid the ongoing debate about AI

While its CEO has called for a slowdown in AI development, Anthropic is launching a powerful and less expensive new model.

OpenAI Unveils 'Astra'... Will It Change the Landscape of AI Competition?

Reuters has learned that Anthropic intends to release a new AI model before its IPO.

EXCLUSIVE-Anthropic considers releasing new AI model ahead of IPO, sources say

Anthropic CEO: The company will slow down the pace of AI model development.

Has the machine reached humanity? OpenAI is nearing its biggest dream. Welcome to the age of AGI... With this phrase, OpenAI CEO Greg Brockman introduced the GPT-6 Astra model. He hinted that the world may be entering the early stages of artificial general intelligence. The problem is that technology companies and scientists don't even agree on the definition of AGI. OpenAI links it to surpassing humans in most economically useful tasks. If systems are capable in the future of performing most human work and assisting in invention and developing their capabilities, will AGI be the biggest economic boom in history or the biggest disruption the labor market has ever seen? #Arabic_Business

DeepSeek announces new AI model; improved performance and lowered fees

DeepSeek announces new AI model; improved performance but lower fees.

OpenAI releases its most advanced model, claiming it surpasses Anthropic and symbolizes the beginning of the AGI era.

OpenAI to begin rolling out its newest and most powerful AI model GPT-5 – says it has built in safeguards to mitigate security risks • •

OPENAI'S PRESIDENT SAYS AGI MAY HAVE ALREADY ARRIVED, AND THAT THIS IS THE MODEL • • Greg Brockman told reporters that in a couple of years, when people look back and ask when AGI was created, he thinks the answer will be around now and possibly this model. • • OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra Thursday and calls it the world's best computer use model. In the company's own tests it booked DMV appointments, searched job listings, and apartment hunted faster than the average person. • • Rollout starts with enterprise clients in the Daybreak early access program, then ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Business. No word on free users. • • OpenAI is racing toward a planned IPO. So is Anthropic.

OPENAI SAYS IT HAS OVERTAKEN ANTHROPIC WITH ITS LATEST AI MODEL - Financial Times

OpenAI says it has overtaken Anthropic with its latest AI model

Meta's most powerful AI model is unveiled; Wang Tao: It catches up with Anthropic and surpasses GPT-5.6 Sol.

Meta releases more powerful AI model, claiming to have further narrowed the gap with competitors.

Meta Unveils New AI Model in Accelerated Effort to Catch Rivals

JUST IN: Meta releases Muse Spark 1.3, its most powerful AI model yet, with Alexandr Wang claiming it is “better than” OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol at coding.

Anthropic launches its most powerful AI yet, along with textual watermarking.

MEDIA-Meta releases more powerful AI model, edging closer to rivals - Bloomberg News

Top Overnight News • • Iran has gone about seven weeks without shipping meaningful crude exports through the Strait of Hormuz, as a U.S. naval blockade succeeds where years of sanctions failed by cutting off one of Tehran's main sources of foreign-currency earnings. Unlike ‌previous sanctions campaigns, when Iranian crude continued reaching buyers despite restrictions, the current blockade has stopped fresh crude cargoes reaching China, Tehran's only major remaining oil customer, increasing pressure on government finances and foreign-currency reserves. Reuters • • Fighting between the US and Iran over control of the Strait of Hormuz intensified after a period of relative calm, triggering a fresh jump in oil prices. The US military carried out strikes targeting radar systems and mine-laying capabilities along Iran’s southern coast, and Iran retaliated with drone and missile volleys on US bases across the Middle East: BBG • • The U.S.-Canada trade standoff is threatening to stretch past the midterm elections. The White House is shrugging off the threat. With a week to go before Canada imposes its retaliatory tariffs, aimed at key industries in states like Ohio and Texas with competitive Senate elections, tensions between Washington and Ottawa are at a steady simmer, with no sign of de-escalation. Politico • • Russia since 2023 has been helping Iran develop advanced supersonic cruise missiles, and Putin has vowed to continue to provide support to Iran. FT/Washington Post • • Bank of Japan Board Member Hajime Takata, one of the central bank’s most hawkish members, left the door open for an outsized interest-rate increase as well as back-to-back hikes, indicating he might push for a faster pace of tightening. The BOJ has raised its benchmark interest rate in quarter-point increments in the most recent three moves, while spacing the moves roughly six months apart. The size and frequency may change as circumstances evolve. BBG • • Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Tuesday that the Bank of Japan will debate raising interest rates including in ‌September with a focus on whether inflationary risks were heightening, signaling a strong chance of a hike this month. Reuters • • The Reserve Bank of New Zealand raised interest rates Wednesday, warning that risks for higher inflation remain in play for the economy. The central bank raised the official cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.75%, in line with market expectations. BBG • • A closely followed measure of artificial intelligence token prices touched fresh lows this week, the latest sign of deflating prices in an increasingly competitive landscape. • • Anthropic is releasing a new version of its powerful Fable artificial intelligence model that it says is better at coding and science tasks, as well as more economical. BBG • OpenAI is to restrict Astra model after rating it a critical cyber risk: WSJ. • Dell became the latest company to reinforce optimism around the AI trade. The company increased its annual sales forecast by $25 billion in a further sign of surging demand for servers to run AI tasks. BBG

OpenAI Will ‘Soon’ Launch Its Competitor To Anthropic’s Mythos. • The model’s most advanced cybersecurity features will be limited in the release, only being accessible to a group of testers.

Last week, @SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6, its new frontier model designed for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. • • Independent evaluations suggest that SpaceXAI has returned to the AI frontier competition based on both performance and cost. • • The economics of Grok 4.6 seem particularly compelling for AI agents. Artificial Analysis estimates that Grok 4.6 costs $0.84 per task on its Intelligence Index, placing it on the Pareto frontier for intelligence-versus-cost. • • More from @MattarARK in this week's newsletter

Meta Releases Open Source AI Model… US Big Tech’s ‘Open AI’ Rises Amidst China’s Chase

“Free AI Boosts GPU Demand”… NVIDIA Challenges for World’s Best Open Model

Nvidia Is Developing A New Nemotron 4 Open-Source AI Model - The Information •