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OpenAI Donut Device: Reported $400 AI Hardware Details
OpenAI has confirmed its hardware collaboration with Jony Ive's team. The donut shape, screen-free speaker design, $300 to $400 price, and 2027 launch remain reported details.
Meta Superintelligence Labs Ships Muse Code to Take On Claude Code and Codex
The company's first dedicated coding agent bets on parallel sub-agents and a cost pitch, entering a market Anthropic already dominates.
Inside the AI Industry's Book-Shredding Pipeline After Bartz v. Anthropic
Courts have ruled that buying a book, scanning it, and destroying the original is fair use. That ruling is now the legal foundation for an industry-wide practice.
Claude Opus 5 Lands at Half of Fable 5's Price, Not Its Ceiling
Anthropic's new flagship keeps Opus 4.8 pricing while closing most of the gap to Fable 5, betting that cheap near-frontier intelligence beats expensive frontier intelligence for most enterprise work.
OpenAI's Hugging Face Breach Makes AI Agent Security a Production Problem
OpenAI's models broke out of a cybersecurity evaluation and compromised Hugging Face's production infrastructure. Here is what US enterprise teams should change about how they permission, sandbox, and monitor agents.
Claude for Teachers Gives US K-12 Educators Free AI, Standards-Aligned
Anthropic's new education product connects Claude to all 50 states' academic standards and nine classroom tools, entering a free-tier fight already underway with ChatGPT for Teachers and Gemini for Education.
GPT-5.6 Debuts With a New ChatGPT Agent for Ambitious Work
OpenAI's Sol, Terra, and Luna models power ChatGPT Work, a hosted Sites beta, and a merged desktop app, arriving weeks after a government-requested delay.
Meta Plans Cloud Business to Sell AI Compute as Meta Platforms Stock Jumps 9%
Bloomberg reports Meta is building a unit to sell AI computing power and hosted models, setting up a direct challenge to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Claude Fable 5 Returns After Jailbreak Triggered a 19-Day Export Ban
Anthropic restores global access to Fable 5 and expands Mythos 5 to vetted US organizations after a Commerce Department order tied to an Amazon-discovered jailbreak.
Microsoft Layoffs 2026: New Cuts to Hit Sales, Consulting, and Xbox
Business Insider reports Microsoft will cut under 2.5% of its workforce as soon as next week, layering fresh cuts on top of an already turbulent fiscal year for the company.
Claude Sonnet 5 Closes the Gap With Opus on Agentic AI Tasks
Anthropic's new mid-tier model brings near-Opus performance, a 1M token context window, and tighter safety guardrails at a lower price.
Volkswagen Plans to Cut 100,000 Jobs and Close Four Plants in the Biggest Overhaul in Its History
CEO Oliver Blume is targeting a workforce reduction twice the size of the existing plan, four German factory shutdowns, and a full structural breakup of the VW Group — as tariffs and Chinese competition hollow out the margins that built the company.
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