China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot, The Information reports
China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot, The Information reports

While the CAC summoned all 7 companies namechecked by Anthropic’s report, the probe quickly zeroed in on DeepSeek and Moonshot due to the examples the report detailed. Jing Yang wrote that on Tuesday, about her own story. She and Qianer Liu reported fo…

Anthropic’s cheaper Opus arrives weeks before its IPO
Anthropic’s cheaper Opus arrives weeks before its IPO

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output, below the $5 and $25 that Opus 5 has carried since July, and says it performs similarly to the more expensive Fable 5.1 on most work. It is the fir…

Z.ai apologised, open-sourced ZCode, and wiped the commit history
Z.ai apologised, open-sourced ZCode, and wiped the commit history

In response to the ZCode product security issues reported by the community, we have completed the necessary remediation and sincerely apologize to all our users. Z.ai posted that on Monday, on ZCode’s official account. The Beijing company, formerly Zhi…

Claude Opus 5.5 delivers Fable 5.1 performance – and costs 40% less

Anthropic’s newest Claude model aims to make frontier AI cheaper, faster, and safer, while giving subscribers more breathing room before those frustrating usage limits kick in.

Parloa says it is partnering with Zalando on AI customer conversations
Parloa says it is partnering with Zalando on AI customer conversations

Parloa co-founder and chief executive Malte Kosub said Zalando will use the Berlin company’s AI for customer conversations across Europe, though neither company has published an announcement and Zalando has not commented. Article 50 of the AI Act, appl…

The fastest-adopted model on Vercel this year cannot write a word
The fastest-adopted model on Vercel this year cannot write a word

We have lightning in a bottle, and yet it is not useful. Diogo Almeida helped build ChatGPT. He worked on the instruction-following research behind it at OpenAI, and the four years since have left him disappointed by what it became, as he told TechCrun…

Mercedes-Benz is putting a British AI driver into its production cars
Mercedes-Benz is putting a British AI driver into its production cars

Wayve has signed a definitive production agreement with Mercedes-Benz to put its AI Driver into future vehicles within the next two years, providing urban and motorway point-to-point driving assistance. Mercedes invested in Wayve’s $1.5B Series D in Fe…

Palo Alto Networks launches always-on AI security testing built on Claude Mythos and GPT-5.6-Cyber
Palo Alto Networks launches always-on AI security testing built on Claude Mythos and GPT-5.6-Cyber

Palo Alto Networks is launching a subscription service that puts Anthropic and OpenAI models to work hunting for weaknesses in customers’ systems around the clock. Its threat research and consulting arm, Unit 42, announced the service today, called Con…

Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall

Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented over a thousand people who…

The Biological Computing Co. partners with AWS to sell its neuron-derived AI video model
The Biological Computing Co. partners with AWS to sell its neuron-derived AI video model

The Biological Computing Co. (TBC), a San Francisco startup that grows living neurons to improve AI models, has partnered with Amazon Web Services to bring its first commercial product, a neuron-derived AI video model, to paying customers. The text-to-…