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ModelsClaude Opus 5 Costs Half of Fable 5, With One Caveat
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on 24 July 2026 at $5 and $25 per million tokens, half Fable 5's rate. Its headline benchmark ran with a fallback model.
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CompaniesThe AI Books Story Everyone Shared Is a Sales Page
Six outlets covered a broker selling old books to AI labs. Its page misstates the $1.5B Anthropic ruling and quotes a judge who never said it.
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CompaniesOpenAI Did Not Notice Its Own Hack, Sources Say
Reuters says OpenAI took about a week to tie the Hugging Face breach to its own agent. One outlet, unnamed sources, and OpenAI disputes parts of it.
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ModelsDid Kimi K3 Distill Claude? What the Evidence Shows
The White House says Moonshot copied a US model to build Kimi K3, and Treasury has put sanctions on the table. A model that calls itself Claude is the headline.
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ModelsNo, Sakana Fugu Is Not a Model That Beats GPT and Claude
Fugu is a router that calls GPT, Claude, and Gemini, not a rival to them. Its own report shows strong scores.
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ChipsThe AI Industry Just Split in Public Over Open Models
On 24 July 2026, 25 companies signed a letter urging Washington not to restrict open-weight AI. Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta signed. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google did not. The split is the story.
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ModelsOpenAI Starts Selling the Deployment, Not Just the Model
On 22 July 2026, OpenAI launched Presence, a product that stands up voice and chat agents inside a company and keeps them running.
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ChinaChina's Nvidia Challenger Files to List in Hong Kong
China's Nvidia Challenger Files to List in Hong Kong
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CompaniesOpenAI Models Did Not Escape Control. They Overran a Test.
Headlines say OpenAI models escaped control. OpenAI's own record says the models ran inside an isolated test with cyber guardrails switched off on purpose.
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