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Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday, marking the first release in the new Claude 5.5 family and the company’s first major model launch since CEO Dario Amodei urged a slowdown in frontier AI development. The firm claims Opus 5.5 matches the performance of Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks while cutting operating costs by roughly 40 percent compared with its predecessor, Claude Opus 5. Pricing is set at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, down from $5 and $25 respectively, [...]

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet in Washington, a summit that will address not only trade and technology disputes but also the growing threat landscape of artificial intelligence. Officials from both sides have begun informal talks about a notification system for AI incidents, a proposal unveiled by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after discussions with Vice Premier He Lifeng. The suggested mechanism aims to create a shared understanding of common risks [...]

OpenAI announced the addition of two models, GPT‑6 Sol and GPT‑6 Luna, to its GPT‑6 lineup. Both models are now accessible through ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu tiers. OpenAI also reduced API pricing for the new models by 50 percent relative to the promotional rates of GPT‑5.6. GPT‑6 Sol targets demanding professional workflows and coding tasks, reportedly outperforming Claude Opus 5 on AutomationBench while costing only 9 percent of the competitor per task, and achieving a 68.8 percent score on [...]

Students from multiple St. Maarten schools have launched a year‑long “A Step Beyond” programme that blends film‑making, artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual reality and media‑literacy education. The initiative, run by Mediawegwijs and Stichting EGO and backed by the National Institute of Arts, began with a assembly at Dominic High School attended by roughly 400 pupils. Participants learned camera techniques, storyboard creation and how editing reshapes narrative, then applied these skills to “Film Your Life,” a project documenting personal daily experiences. Curriculum [...]

Microsoft announced the takedown of EvilTokens, an AI‑driven cybercrime platform that automated the full fraud pipeline from email compromise to financial theft. Launched in February 2026, the service sold access to compromised inboxes for a $1,500 initiation fee and $500 monthly, using a chatbot to scan victims’ mail, map organizational roles, pinpoint “money movers,” and draft convincing impersonation messages. Within months it breached more than 12,000 inboxes across over 10,000 organizations in the United States, Canada, the [...]

First Lady Melania Trump used a United Nations General Assembly side event in New York to promote her “Fostering the Future Together” initiative, which pairs governments with major tech firms to broaden children’s access to artificial‑intelligence tools, digital skills and online protection. She emphasized that mere access is insufficient without teaching responsible use. The program announced partnerships with Adobe, Amazon, Google, Intel, N50, Starlink and Zoom, covering at least 57 countries, and highlighted specific commitments such as Google’s [...]

Alibaba announced the Zhenwu V900 AI processor at its Hangzhou flagship conference, claiming it delivers three times the performance of the previous Zhenwu M890. CEO Eddie Wu described the chip as China’s most powerful AI silicon, intended for both model training and inference in Alibaba’s cloud data centers. The company also revealed plans to develop an AI model with five to ten trillion parameters, moving beyond its current 2.4‑trillion‑parameter Qwen3.8‑Max and rivaling leading U.S. systems. To support [...]

Proofpoint introduced Agentic Collaboration Security, an AI‑driven system aimed at thwarting attacks that masquerade as routine business communications. The solution blends an intent‑based detection model with automated threat investigation tools, protecting email, collaboration apps, and web browsers from phishing, compromised‑supplier, and payment‑fraud schemes that appear to originate from trusted contacts. By leveraging the Proofpoint Knowledge Graph—a unified data layer of threat intelligence, attack patterns, supplier compromises, and internal organizational context—the Nexus Intent‑Based Detection Model evaluates the purpose [...]