Anthropic's Measurement Push Meets Claude Opus 5.5's 40% Price Cut
Anthropic is publishing internal metrics on how fast AI research moves, while its new Claude Opus 5.5 lands at 40% lower cost with fresh safeguards for autonomous agents.
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Anthropic is publishing internal metrics on how fast AI research moves, while its new Claude Opus 5.5 lands at 40% lower cost with fresh safeguards for autonomous agents.
Anthropic's Claude AI has helped identify a previously unknown enzyme system featuring CRISPR-like DNA repeats, a discovery the company is comparing to the gene-editing revolution.
Parallel's AI agents now research and synthesize labor-market data twice as fast and at half the cost using GPT-6 Astra, the company reports.
The x402 payments protocol has scaled to roughly $50 billion in volume and 150,000 endpoints, strengthening Solana's position in AI-driven payments while stablecoins keep token demand on Solana, XRP Ledger and Cardano unproven.
Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $998.95 million, X introduced broker links through its Cashtag Partner Program, and Coinbase rolled out fixed-term BTC-backed borrowing via Morpho Midnight.
Washington warns that Australia's plan to let users opt out of algorithmic feeds risks enabling censorship, while Canberra defends the measure as protection for young users.
Microsoft's Copilot AI predicts Bitcoin may hit $180,000 before January 1, 2027, if a full bull market returns in Q4, with a potential blow-off top pushing it above $200,000.
Meta claims its new AI assistant Muse was built from scratch, but now acknowledges the tool was 'heavily inspired' by OpenClaw — extending to workspace filenames and content.
Qualcomm has announced two new smartphone processors, with its flagship chip capable of running a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model locally.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, cutting token prices by half and reducing errors, with integration into Microsoft Foundry for production agents.