Journals

Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times: Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year  —  Increase will come as music-streaming company aims… Read More »Sources: Spotify plans to raise US subscription prices in Q1 2026, its first US price rise since July 2024, after increasing prices in other countries this year (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)

The Information: Sources: Google has begun pitching customers, including Meta and big financial institutions, on the idea of using TPUs in their own data centers  —  Google is picking up the pace of its efforts to compete directly with Nvidia… Read More »Sources: Google has begun pitching customers, including Meta and big financial institutions, on the idea of using TPUs in their own data centers (The Information)

Axios: President Trump signs an EO establishing the “Genesis Mission” to boost AI research and shorten discovery timelines “from years to days or even hours”  —  President Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at boosting AI research and development,… Read More »President Trump signs an EO establishing the “Genesis Mission” to boost AI research and shorten discovery timelines “from years to days or even hours” (Axios)

Emilio Parodi / Reuters: Sources: Italian police raided two Amazon sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports  —  – Italian police raid Amazon sites in probe of Chinese goods … Read More »Sources: Italian police raided two Amazon sites on Monday as part of a growing investigation into alleged customs and tax fraud involving Chinese imports (Emilio Parodi/Reuters)

Jaures Yip / CNBC: A US judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking OpenAI from using the word “cameo” for Sora features, following a trademark lawsuit by video app Cameo  —  OpenAI will not be allowed use the word “cameo”… Read More »A US judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking OpenAI from using the word “cameo” for Sora features, following a trademark lawsuit by video app Cameo (Jaures Yip/CNBC)

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 4.4% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.21B est., enterprise revenue up 6.1% YoY to $741.4M, and a Q4 revenue forecast above estimates  —  Zoom Communications Inc. reported quarterly revenue that topped analysts’… Read More »Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 4.4% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.21B est., enterprise revenue up 6.1% YoY to $741.4M, and a Q4 revenue forecast above estimates (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Sources: Paris-based Pennylane, which makes accounting software, is discussing a $200M investment led by TCV at a $4.25B valuation, up from €2B in April  —  Pennylane, a French startup that sells accounting software, is in talks… Read More »Sources: Paris-based Pennylane, which makes accounting software, is discussing a $200M investment led by TCV at a $4.25B valuation, up from €2B in April (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Anthropic says Opus 4.5 outscored all humans on a take-home exam it gives to prospective performance engineering candidates, within a prescribed two-hour limit  —  Anthropic released its most capable artificial intelligence model yet on Monday, slashing… Read More »Anthropic says Opus 4.5 outscored all humans on a take-home exam it gives to prospective performance engineering candidates, within a prescribed two-hour limit (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Simon Willison / Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic prices Claude Opus 4.5 at $5/1M input and $25/1M output tokens, much cheaper than Opus 4.1 at $15/$75 but still pricier than GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro  —  Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5… Read More »Anthropic prices Claude Opus 4.5 at $5/1M input and $25/1M output tokens, much cheaper than Opus 4.1 at $15/$75 but still pricier than GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro (Simon Willison/Simon Willison’s Weblog)

Hayden Field / The Verge: Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.5 is “harder to trick with prompt injection than any other frontier model in the industry” but isn’t “immune” to such attacks  —  Claude Opus 4.5 is out today. … The… Read More »Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.5 is “harder to trick with prompt injection than any other frontier model in the industry” but isn’t “immune” to such attacks (Hayden Field/The Verge)