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Anthropic: Opus 5.5 ~40% cheaper on long Claude Code sessions

Anthropic estimates Opus 5.5 costs about 40% less than Opus 5 on typical Claude Code traffic after cutting cache reads 60% and token prices 20%. Sessions now run 3.3x longer per prompt with 2.6x more context; API users can set a one-hour cache TTL, and forked subagents inherit the parent's cache.

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Lovable crosses $600M ARR as vibe coding scales

Co founder Fabian Hedin told HumanX in Amsterdam that Lovable’s annualized revenue hit $600M, up from about $500M in June. Users at two thirds of Fortune 500 companies are on the platform, apps it hosts pull nearly a billion monthly visits, and it has raised over $700M at a $13.3B valuation…

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Anthropic resumes billing Claude safeguard blocks in three categories

Anthropic is charging again for Claude API requests blocked before any output in biology, frontier LLM development, and reasoning extraction—categories with under 0.1% false positives—to deter coordinated circumvention. Cyber and other refusals stay unbilled; Anthropic says 99.7% of Claude Code, Claude.ai, and Cowork users won't notice…

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Google tests Gemini Call for Me on Pixel 11: AI dials businesses for you

Google is previewing Call for Me for U.S. Pixel 11 owners on a paid Gemini plan: Gemini dials businesses from your number to check stock, book reservations, or move appointments, navigating menus and hold while you watch a live transcript and can take over anytime. It needs the Phone by Google public beta and starts small because real world conversations are still hard…

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