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…

Dutch government publishes call from 21 countries and the EU for international oversight of frontier AI
Dutch government publishes call from 21 countries and the EU for international oversight of frontier AI

A joint statement released today by the Dutch government has seen leaders and ministers from 21 countries, together with the European Commission, call for tighter control over frontier AI models, including mandatory testing before their release and the…

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…

Andy Burnham wants the UK to use its G20 presidency to broker a global AI agreement
Andy Burnham wants the UK to use its G20 presidency to broker a global AI agreement

Britain will try to broker a worldwide deal on AI during its upcoming turn at the head of the G20, Prime Minister Andy Burnham told reporters on the eve of the UN General Assembly in New York, Politico Europe reported. Britain was “uniquely positioned …

DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reports
DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reports

According to an exclusive Reuters report published today, which cites two individuals familiar with the situation, DeepSeek is expected to speak to the UN Security Council this week about the risks posed by AI, alongside several US companies. The 15-me…

OpenAI asks Washington to lead a global AI standards push
OpenAI asks Washington to lead a global AI standards push

OpenAI has called on the United States to lead an international effort on standards for advanced AI, beginning with rules on which incidents must be reported, and suggested routing the work through national AI safety institutes including the US Center …

Oura’s IPO seeks $2.2bn, and 73% of it goes to existing shareholders
Oura’s IPO seeks $2.2bn, and 73% of it goes to existing shareholders

Oura spent the first nine months of its financial year buying its own shares back from its investors. On Monday it started selling them to everybody else. The Finnish smart ring maker launched its initial public offering before the New York open. It is…

The Vatican is turning its AI campaign into permanent machinery this week
The Vatican is turning its AI campaign into permanent machinery this week

AI4Peace, a symposium on artificial intelligence and conflict, opened on Monday at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome with a message from Leo XIV. The Pope was not present in the room, and Don Andrea Ciucci, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy …

Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data
Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data

Google has been fined €403M, or about $463M, by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission over the way it handled users’ location data, in a case brought after several European consumer groups complained. It found breaches of lawfulness and fairness in the …

The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China
The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China

The United States has proposed that Washington and Beijing notify each other of AI incidents serious enough to qualify as national security events, an idea Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put forward to Chinese officials during talks in Manhattan on S…