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Anthropic says it cut 80 percent of Claude Code's system prompt because Fable 5 models "want a smaller system prompt"

Anthropic says it has cut 80 percent of the system prompt for Claude Code. Tariq Shihipar, a member of technical staff at Anthropic, describes a fundamental shift in how AI models are steered, tied to ...
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Microsoft launches $2.5 billion "Frontier Company" to embed 6,000 AI engineers inside enterprise clients

Microsoft is putting 6,000 engineers and industry experts on the ground at enterprise customers through its new "Frontier Company" unit, aiming to weave AI into their core operations. Microsoft has ...
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Anthropic reportedly explores custom chip manufacturing with Samsung while insisting Nvidia still matters

Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics about manufacturing a custom AI chip, according to The Information. The project is reportedly still in its early stages, with no detailed design yet.
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OpenAI reportedly offers the Trump administration a five percent stake in the company

OpenAI is in talks with the US government about giving it a stake in the company, according to a media report. The proposal would also include other AI companies and could help soften political ...
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OpenAI's genomics paper accidentally reveals a Pro lineup it hasn't announced yet

An OpenAI paper lists three Pro models for GPT-5.6 for the first time: Luna Pro, Terra Pro, and Sol Pro. Until now, Pro was always a single top-tier model. Pro users may soon be able to choose between ...
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Meta secretly tested ChatGPT, Gemini, and Character.AI with thousands of minor-perspective crisis prompts

Meta apparently tested rival chatbots like ChatGPT with prompts about suicide, sex, and drugs from the perspective of minors. Hundreds of contractors pretended to be minors and sent sensitive prompts ...
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Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data

Meta is limiting how its engineers use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to prevent outputs from these AI tools from ending up in its own training data. According to internal documents ...
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Meituan's LongCat-2.0 shows China can train massive AI models without Nvidia

Meituan trains a 1.6 trillion parameter AI model entirely on Chinese chips, no Nvidia required. "LongCat-2.0 has demonstrated that we now have the capability to train large-scale models on domestic ...
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Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in

Worried about rising costs, some Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models to build smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. That's according to a report from The Information.
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OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 cheats a lot. That's the key finding from an independent evaluation by METR. During testing with software tasks, OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol showed the highest rate of ...
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Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees in South Korea

Samsung Electronics is deploying ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all employees in South Korea and everyone in its Device eXperience (DX) division worldwide. According to OpenAI, it's one of the ...
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AWS says AI agents lack business context and security, launches two services to patch the gaps

Amazon is launching two new AWS services: AWS Continuum, which automates the fixing of code vulnerabilities, and AWS Context, which feeds AI agents business knowledge through a knowledge graph to ...