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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=953bf46403&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Anthropic debuts Claude Sonnet 4.5, claims it is the world's best coding model, the strongest for building complex agents, and its “most aligned” frontier model</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=190e305cc1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">great post from Logan (anthropic red team lead) on sonnet 4.5's cyber offense and defense capabilities. this stuff is getting real, and could be disruptive soon. my guess is that this will be the first genuine frontier risk the average American feels personally. if we are to</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=40c7e944a5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Everyone talking about 4.5 being great at coding, but I'm taking way more notice of that huge increase in computer use (OSWorld) score 👀 That's a huge increase over SOTA and I don't think we've seen anything similarly good at OSWorld from others? Claude Agents coming soon?</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c196444546&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Anthropic announces upgrades to Claude Code: a native VS Code extension, a new terminal interface, and checkpoints for autonomous operation</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=828f3e1af8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">saudis have spent the past few years buying up huge mobile games — scopely with monopoly Go, niantic with pokemon go silver lake will probably go in and cut cut cut as LBOs tend to....go the industry has changed from the console days EA dominated </a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c1481e9a5e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">EA's $55B sale is the largest leveraged buyout on record and represents a 25% premium on its September 26 close, as the $178B video game industry's growth slows</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e9487b4e15&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI is open sourcing the Agentic Commerce Protocol, a standard for AI commerce that powers its Instant Checkout feature and was co-developed with Stripe</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sabrina Ortiz / </span><span class="pub_name">ZDNET</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2caf0d6b5d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 into law; the first-in-the-nation AI safety law requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chase DiFeliciantonio / </span><span class="pub_name">Politico</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=059fa1e802&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI launches new ChatGPT parental safety controls for users aged 13 to 18, including parental and law enforcement alerts for chats about self-harm or suicide</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Reece Rogers / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=033f205238&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: OpenAI plans a stand-alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuring a TikTok-like vertical feed with entirely AI-generated videos</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7546acaf55&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: OpenAI told studios that it plans to release a new version of Sora that creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=39d04fbe6c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after Jan. 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=795cc1cf19&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Marissa Mayer to dissolve her old startup Sunshine, founded in 2018, and sell its assets to her new company Dazzle, which sources say is making an AI assistant</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=56fc20cda1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, saying it built the model using a new technique called DeepSeek Sparse Attention, and halves the pricing of its tools</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Saritha Rai / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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Artificial Intelligence
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8b7bd5e15f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 4.5 spent 30 hours running autonomously, writing 11,000 lines of code to build a chat app akin to Slack or Teams</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Hayden Field / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e14b41cb88&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Anthropic prices Claude Sonnet 4.5 at $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens, same as Sonnet 4, cheaper than Opus at $15/$75 but higher than GPT-5 at $1.25/$10</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Simon Willison / </span><span class="pub_name">Simon Willison's Weblog</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2205e42b6d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Claude Sonnet 4.5 is faster and more steerable than Opus 4.1 and excels in Claude Code, but GPT-5 Codex is still better for difficult production coding tasks</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dan Shipper / </span><span class="pub_name">Every</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e8f69e66a1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft launches Agent Mode in Excel and Word, using GPT-5 to generate complex spreadsheets and documents, saying it is “bringing vibe working” to 365 Copilot</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tom Warren / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7153ad3a4d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">DeepMind says video models like Veo 3 could become general purpose foundation models for vision, like LLMs for text, using zero-shot “chain-of-frames” reasoning</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Simon Willison / </span><span class="pub_name">Simon Willison's Weblog</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a191b86676&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">How debt is fueling the next wave of the AI infrastructure boom; an analyst estimates Oracle needs to borrow $25B/year over four years to fund its OpenAI plans</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Asa Fitch / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e3af549e53&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google DeepMind, Meta, Nvidia, and others are racing to release world models, aiming to navigate the physical world by learning from videos and robotic data</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=520e6cca65&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">VCs say some AI startups, under pressure to show rapid ARR growth, are using questionable accounting practices like counting one-time deals as recurring revenue</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Allie Garfinkle / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3f207c27e2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI launches its first extended ad campaign for ChatGPT featuring three 30-second cinematic ads with a focus on everyday AI use cases in the US and the UK</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tim Nudd / </span><span class="pub_name">Ad Age</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a1540a3a37&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Several US states have passed bills to ban or restrict AI mental health treatment, as experts say state laws lag behind the fast-moving AI therapy landscape</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Devi Shastri / </span><span class="pub_name">Associated Press</span>)</span>
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infosec
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=46114b8428&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The UK government underwrites a £1.5B loan to Jaguar Land Rover as the carmaker reels from a cyberattack that has crippled its production for around a month</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dominic Chopping / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2ace6a7108&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Researchers: Tile tags broadcast unencrypted MAC addresses and unique IDs; researchers informed Life360 in November 2024 but it stopped replying in February</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kim Zetter / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=00114cee80&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at China's Ministry of State Security, which has been reshaped by Xi Jinping to be the primary driver of cyber espionage campaigns like Salt Typhoon</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=af7cd46d34&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Swift says it is building a blockchain-based ledger with over 30 financial institutions and the first prototype will be built in partnership with Consensys</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b946369e59&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: asset manager Vanguard, which has historically been critical of cryptocurrencies, prepares to allow access to crypto ETFs on its brokerage platform</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Crypto in America</span>)</span>
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Litigation
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2edfa2727a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A judge sentences Frank founder Charlie Javice to 85 months in prison for defrauding JPMorgan Chase by overstating how many customers the fintech company had</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1d55e4e5f3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A Chinese woman pleads guilty in a London court to laundering bitcoin linked to a £5B Chinese investment scheme in which UK police seized 61,000 bitcoin in 2018</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Suzi Ring / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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Regulation
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=47a80a0e1c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US aims to get “maybe 50% market share” of chip and wafer production to offset Beijing's threats to invade Taiwan</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8ae018ceaf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The US Commerce Department says subsidiaries of entity list companies would also be subject to trade restrictions, threatening Chinese companies, from Tuesday</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Amrith Ramkumar / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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Funding Deals
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a0bf36e107&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">London-based Evantic Capital, founded by ex-Sequoia VC Matt Miller, raised a $400M fund, with ~12.5% coming from 135 “legends”, including CEOs, a novel strategy</a></span>
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