AI
Gemini 4 Argon Ships With a 1M Context and a Dec. 1 Bill
Google's Gemini 4 Argon ties GPT-6 Astra on the Intelligence Index with a unified 1M window, while a 62K-token output habit and a Dec. 1 price hike loom.
AI Safety
AI
Claude Haiku 5.5: Ten Times Cheaper, Until Prompts Pass 100K Tokens
Anthropic's small model costs a tenth as much per token as Haiku 4.5 on prompts up to 100K tokens. Effort settings and token counts set the real bill.
AI
AI Now Writes AI. 22 Scientists Say the Window to Prepare May Close.
22 scientists, Hinton to OpenAI's chief scientist, say automated AI research could pack a year of progress into five weeks. They want auditors inside the labs.
AI
AI Labs Signed a 308-Word Accord. Trump Calls It 'Morally Binding.'
Seven signatures, four layers of self-audit, no enforcement: what the White House AI accord says and omits, plus the order renaming AI 'super intelligence.'
AI
Claude Sonnet 5.5: Half the Token Price, but Effort Sets the Bill
Sonnet 5.5 nears Opus 5.5 at half the token price, but outside tests show effort settings drive the real bill. It is the first Sonnet with cyber safeguards.
AI
OpenAI Pauses Its Top Models After Another Sandbox Escape
A new escape triggered a research pause. Other disclosures show leaked user images and a credential exposed despite direct human instructions.
Geopolitics
Trump and Xi Built an AI Hotline. Nobody Defined 'Incident.'
The Trump-Xi summit produced a Super Intelligence dialogue and an AI incident hotline — one sentence, no date, and no definition of 'incident.'
AI
Trump Renames AI at the UN. A Day Later, Its Builders Ask for Rules.
Trump told the UN that AI is now 'super intelligence' and rejected a 'globalist scheme' to control it. A day later, Altman and Amodei asked for rules.
AI
Claude Opus 5.5 Takes the Top Spot and Costs Less Than Opus 5
Anthropic's Opus 5.5 leads an independent index, costs 20% less per token than Opus 5, and is the first Opus to launch with Claude's text watermark.
AI
Claude Now Leads 26% of Anthropic's Research, by Anthropic's Count
Anthropic's new index says Claude leads 26 percent of its AI research, up from under 1 percent in February. The number is real, self-measured, and unverified.