Journals

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)

Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Anthropic unveils two Claude Code upgrades: a new plan mode that creates more precise plans, and support for Claude Code in the Claude desktop app  —  In addition to the new model, Anthropic is… Read More »Anthropic unveils two Claude Code upgrades: a new plan mode that creates more precise plans, and support for Claude Code in the Claude desktop app (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple cut dozens of sales roles to streamline sales to businesses, schools, and governments; Apple says the changes affect “a small number of roles”  —  Apple Inc. has eliminated dozens of sales roles in a… Read More »Sources: Apple cut dozens of sales roles to streamline sales to businesses, schools, and governments; Apple says the changes affect “a small number of roles” (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Anthropic says Claude can now keep a chat going indefinitely, automatically summarizing earlier context when it hits its context window  —  On Monday, Anthropic announced Opus 4.5, the latest version of its flagship model.  It’s the… Read More »Anthropic says Claude can now keep a chat going indefinitely, automatically summarizing earlier context when it hits its context window (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Konrad Putzier / Wall Street Journal: How the US’ annualized 1.6% GDP growth in H1 was heavily dependent on AI-related investments, which might have accounted for as much as 50% of the growth  —  Growth has been bolstered by data-center… Read More »How the US’ annualized 1.6% GDP growth in H1 was heavily dependent on AI-related investments, which might have accounted for as much as 50% of the growth (Konrad Putzier/Wall Street Journal)

Anthropic: Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, which the company says is “the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use”  —  Our newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is available today.  It’s intelligent, efficient, and the best model… Read More »Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, which the company says is “the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use” (Anthropic)

Kritika Lamba / Reuters: Grindr ends talks on a $3.46B take-private deal by shareholders Ray Zage and James Lu, who own 60%+ of Grindr, citing uncertainty over the deal’s financing  —  Dating app Grindr (GRND.N) said on Monday it has… Read More »Grindr ends talks on a $3.46B take-private deal by shareholders Ray Zage and James Lu, who own 60%+ of Grindr, citing uncertainty over the deal’s financing (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)

Ben Dickson / VentureBeat: Microsoft unveils Fara-7B, its first agentic SLM designed for computer use, available as an experimental release on Hugging Face and Microsoft Foundry  —  Microsoft has introduced Fara-7B, a new 7-billion parameter model designed to act as… Read More »Microsoft unveils Fara-7B, its first agentic SLM designed for computer use, available as an experimental release on Hugging Face and Microsoft Foundry (Ben Dickson/VentureBeat)

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: The US DOD and the intelligence community awarded Enabled Intelligence a seven-year, up to $708M data labeling contract in September, beating out Scale AI  —  An AI startup has won a seven-year contract to supply data… Read More »The US DOD and the intelligence community awarded Enabled Intelligence a seven-year, up to $708M data labeling contract in September, beating out Scale AI (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer’s guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini  —  ZDNET’s key takeaways  — OpenAI released a shopping research feature in ChatGPT. … Read More »OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer’s guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)