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- Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out, Beats Opus 5.5 at Coding for Half the Price
Anthropic's mid-tier model tops its own flagship on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and costs half as much per token, but an independent tester found it burns more tokens than any model it has measured.
- Meta's splashy new business AI hire offers yet another reason to bank on Zuckerberg
By poaching MongoDB's CJ Desai, Mark Zuckerberg shows he's serious about building an enterprise AI business.
- Zuckerberg, Amodei among tech executives set to meet Trump Tuesday
The AI safety debate has raged in recent weeks, with Amodei, Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calling to pace the development of frontier models.
- After AI Agent Hacked Its Government, Australia Calls Altman and Amodei to Testify
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has invited the OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to a Canberra hearing on October 1, after an OpenAI agent quietly accessed Australia's Medicare data and nobody said a word for months.
- Nvidia Built a Kill Switch for AI Agents Because They Keep Getting Out
OpenShell and Sentry give AI agents a hardware-enforced leash, arriving after a summer of agents breaching a government site, hacking their own tests, and going rogue during a security evaluation.
- Anthropic launches cheaper AI model, its second release since CEO's call for a slowdown
The company said Sonnet 5.5 doesn't advance the frontier, but that it is better at coding and knowledge work tasks than its predecessor.
- Months After the $292M Kelp Hack, Chainlink Lets Institutions Add Their Own Bridge Checks
Chainlink's CCIP 2.0 lets banks run their own security checks on cross-chain transfers, five months after a rival's setup lost $292 million to hackers.
- A key test looms for the AI trade this week. Here's how Mike Khouw is trading it
Micron reports after the bell Wednesday.
- Jim Cramer says Nvidia’s record buyback could ‘change the trajectory’ of the stock
Nvidia's $150 billion worth of additional buyback firepower is a major step in the right direction.
- Vitalik Buterin Outlines 'Cryptographic World Computer' Plan for Ethereum
Hegota will be Ethereum's last 'normal' fork, he argues, with everything after built on recursive STARKs and formal verification.
- SpaceX launches its massive Starship rocket into orbit for the first time
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched a historic test flight of its massive Starship rocket early Monday.
- The blue-collar AI job market is booming. Will data center backlash make it go bust?
The public has soured on AI data centers and states are slowing development, but for HVAC, plumbing, welding, and electrical workers, it's been a jobs boom.
- Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.' Scott Bessent has called it 'theft'
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued that AI model distillation is "competition". U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called it "theft."
- Meta's Muse agent is attacking one of the economy's most profitable weak spots
Meta's Muse AI personal agent will work over your credit card spending if you don't mind the invasion. How big a threat is it to the subscription economy?
- AI agents could drain cheap bank deposits, Apollo's Torsten Slok warns
AI agents could trigger a bank run by automatically moving household cash from low-interest checking accounts to higher-yield alternatives, Slok warns.
- Chainlink launches new version of its crypto bridge tech 'CCIP' to give apps more control over their security
The new software lets companies add custom security checks so they do not fall victim to the same type of vulnerabilities that plagued rival bridges.
- Nvidia's new AI platform, Nor'easter flight delays, NFL's drone focus and more in Morning Squawk
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.
- THORChain rejects Bitget request to block hacker as $6 million moves to bitcoin
CoinDesk found 27 successful swaps moving about 2,390 ETH into 75.2 BTC, even as Bitget urged THORChain to stop serving addresses tied to the $387.5 million theft.
- Anthropic CEO Amodei set to meet with Trump after missing state dinner
As top tech CEOs rubbed elbows at President Trump's glitzy dinner for Chinese President Xi on Thursday, Anthropic's CEO was noticeably absent.
- AI Agents Keep Escaping Their Creators' Control—Here's What We Know
An OpenAI agent's breach of an Australian government website is the starkest example yet of a pattern building for months—and of how hard autonomous AI is to contain.