Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday with Fable-level coding and knowledge-work performance at $4/$20 per million tokens (20% below Opus 5). Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are due in the coming weeks; the model carries Fable-class cybersecurity and biology safeguards.
OpenAI expanded GPT 6 with Sol (coding/complex work) and Luna (high volume clerical tasks), cutting API cost 50% vs the 5.6 Sol/Luna line via caching and inference gains. Sol is live in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the API; Luna also rolls to Free and Go, with broader ChatGPT rollout through the day…
Google released AX, a declarative orchestrator (Task, Workspace, Gateway, Model) for agent fleets on Kubernetes via Agent Substrate. Its HN launch hit 626 points as builders argued the “easier agents” pitch still needs a cluster, ko, and a registry…
AWS released Strands Harness (Apache 2.0) — a ready made general purpose agent for Python/TypeScript that runs locally or in any Linux cloud, with shell/file/web tools, context compaction, memory, and subagents. On matching Claude/GPT models it claims 28% lower token cost vs other harnesses across six benchmarks, and with Fable 5 it scored higher than Claude Code on Terminal Bench 2.1 at 77% lower cost…
DeepSeek will be among firms briefing the UN Security Council on Wednesday on AI and international security, sources told Reuters, alongside expected participation from OpenAI and Anthropic. Moonshot was also invited; DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng does not plan to attend…
In September parliamentary submissions, OpenAI and Anthropic urged Australia to allow a narrow, conditional path for model training on local creative works after Canberra ruled out a broad copyright exemption. Both tied the ask to data centre plans in Sydney and Queensland; a joint committee report is due in November…
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