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GPT-5.5 costs 49 to 92 percent more than its predecessor, depending on the input length

GPT-5.5's list price has doubled compared to GPT-5.4. Input tokens now cost $5 and output tokens $30 per million, up from $2.50 and $15. OpenAI says shorter responses should partially offset this, but ...
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AI agents can now hack computers and copy themselves, and they're getting better fast

Security research lab Palisade Research demonstrates that AI agents can break into remote computers and replicate themselves. In one year, the success rate jumped from 6 to 81 percent. A public ...
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Google's "Preferred Sources" feature is a free pass for more garbage in search

Google has introduced a "Preferred Sources" feature that lets users manually mark journalistic outlets they want to see more often in search results. But the company has spent decades algorithmically ...
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China is falling behind in the AI race, according to a US government benchmark

A new report from the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) claims Chinese AI models are losing ground to their US counterparts. The agency recently put the new Chinese open-weight model ...
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Read full article about: SAP's acquisition spree signals the enterprise giant is serious about becoming an AI-ready data platform SAP is acquiring open data lakehouse provider Dremio and AI company ...
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Deep Research feature now available to free ChatGPT users

OpenAI has made the Deep Research tool in ChatGPT available to free-tier users. Access is limited to five uses per month, using a lightweight version based on the o4-mini-model. To activate the ...
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OpenAI outlines new image generation rules for ChatGPT

OpenAI has unveiled new guidelines for image generation in GPT-4o, marking a shift toward giving users more creative freedom while maintaining certain safety guardrails. Joanne Jang, who oversees ...
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Microsoft adds OpenAI Responses API to Azure platform

Microsoft has integrated OpenAI's newly announced Responses API into its Azure cloud platform, expanding the capabilities available to Azure developers. The implementation mirrors OpenAI's version, ...
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Anthropic cuts AI productivity forecasts in half after analyzing Claude's real-world failure rates

Anthropic's first systematic analysis of Claude's task failure rates reveals a clear pattern: the more complex the work, the lower the success rate. The company has cut its productivity forecasts ...
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Users claim Claude AI is getting dumber, Anthropic says it's not

Users are reporting that Anthropic's Claude chatbot has become less capable recently, echoing similar complaints about ChatGPT last year. Anthropic says it hasn't made any changes, highlighting the ...
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 saw through an AI test, cracked the encryption, and grabbed the answers itself

Anthropic's AI model Claude Opus 4.6 independently recognized that it was being tested in a web research benchmark, identified the specific benchmark, and cracked its encrypted answer key. After an ...
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Microsoft brings Anthropic's Claude Cowork into Copilot to run tasks across Outlook, Teams, and Excel

Microsoft has integrated Anthropic's Claude Cowork technology into Copilot. The new feature lets Microsoft 365 handle tasks more autonomously: users describe what they want done, and Cowork builds a ...