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Some current and prospective Anthropic investors are weighing a valuation of around $1.5 trillion for its November share sale, down from the roughly $2 trillion they had expected, Reuters reported on October 15, citing four people familiar with the matter.…
Nvidia is in early talks to buy Reflection AI outright or to invest more in it, the Financial Times reported on Saturday,…
Google employees are testing a newer Gemini 4 model internally named Carbon, Business Insider reported at 19:37 UTC today,…
Since early on October 9 (UTC), Codex and ChatGPT users have been posting the same error when they pick GPT-6.1 Sol or GPT-6 Astra…
SemiAnalysis has measured how much model use each $200-a-month AI subscription actually buys, and on the models both labs pitch as the daily driver, Anthropic's plan comes out far ahead.…
On September 29 President Trump signed an executive order telling federal agencies to call artificial intelligence "super intelligence" in official documents,…
Reuters has reviewed Anthropic's IPO prospectus, it reported on September 28. The company is pursuing a valuation of more than $2 trillion,…
One X account, @lyraxana, posted a recap on September 27 of what it says is planned for Gemini 4: a release "planned for mid-to-late October", new effort levels xhigh and max,…
Anthropic has named Claude Sonnet 5.5 but has not dated it. Everything past the name is reported, not confirmed - and the one number that moves every day says it is close.
Polymarket's "Next Claude Opus released by...?" book, read directly at 06:49 UTC, September 21: 83% by September 24, 91% by September 27, 95% by September 30.…
A claim going round today says Fable 5.1 is in pre-release testing, targeted at September, and running inside Anthropic's own products under the Fable 5 name. One part of that is checkable,…
A leak today puts Fable 6 in mid-to-late August, calls it Anthropic's most capable model so far, says pricing stays level with Fable 5, and frames it as the answer to GPT-6.…
This morning one account said Gemini 3.5 Pro was dropping today. Eleven hours later another said it had been delayed again by deployment issues, with next week now likely.…
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