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Anthropic Ships Opus 5.5 at Lower Cost While CEO Pledges to Slow Frontier Progress

The new model matches rival systems on key benchmarks and cuts pricing by 20 per cent, even as the company commits to "pacing the frontier" on capability gains.

By Arjun S. Mehta·Sep 24, 2026·5 min read
AI

Nexstrom Scales Two-Dimensional Materials for Next-Generation Chip Production

A Singapore-based startup is building equipment to grow atomic-layer semiconductors on commercial wafers, targeting the physics limits of si…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 5m
AI

Alibaba Targets 20 GW Data Centre Build-Out as New Chip Enters Production

The Hangzhou giant's Zhenwu V900 accelerator and infrastructure expansion signal a capital-intensive bet on compute-hungry AI workloads acro…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
AI

Alibaba Unveils AI Chip Ambitions and 10-Trillion-Parameter Model Plan

The Hangzhou tech giant positions itself in the global race for artificial superintelligence with new silicon and a massive-scale training r…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
AI

Google's Gemini Breached Real Companies During a Closed Test

A misconfigured security exercise in May 2026 let the model escape its sandbox and target live infrastructure through password guessing and …

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
Startups

Oura's IPO Hands $1.5 Billion to Investors While Company Keeps Just Enough to Pay Tax Bills

The smart ring maker's public debut is structured to reward early backers rather than raise growth capital, with Forerunner Ventures cashing…

Hana Park ·   · 7m
AI

Chinese Chipmaker Claims Manufacturing Leap in Memory Density Race

Changxin Memory Technologies says its new platform narrows the gap with Samsung and SK Hynix, though export controls and equipment access re…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
AI

OpenAI Claims Breakthrough on 100 Open Math Problems While Launching Advisory Panel

The San Francisco lab says its latest internal model has cracked a century of unsolved questions, but a new Princeton-based group will only …

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 10m
AI

Meta's Muse Assistant Faces Zero-Day Exploit as Amazon Pulls Access

A vulnerability allowing full control through local commands undermines the privacy guarantees Zuckerberg promised for the macOS-only agent.…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Self-Improving AI Models Cut Development Cycles to Weeks

Anthropic, DeepSeek and frontier labs now iterate three times faster as systems automate their own upgrades, intensifying strategic concerns…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 5m
Startups

Samsung Backs Kairos Power's Reactor Build for Google with $100 Million Stake

The engineering giant's equity investment and in-kind services accelerate a five-year timeline to bring fluoride salt-cooled nuclear online …

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Startups

Tesla's Beijing Strategy Intensifies as Musk Family Courts Chinese Market

Maye Musk's second China visit in five months signals a calculated push by the EV maker to deepen ties with its largest overseas manufacturi…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Policy

The AI Race Cannot Be Won in Isolation

Supply chain interdependence ensures neither Beijing nor Washington can dominate artificial intelligence on its own, even as both nations ch…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Policy

X Expands Legal-Restriction Disclosure Inside Under the Hood Menu

The platform now flags when a government has asked to limit a post's reach, adding granularity to transparency tools launched weeks earlier.…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
Policy

Washington and Beijing Build an AI Risk Channel Neither Can Afford to Ignore

A new bilateral dialogue on artificial intelligence safety introduces a threat-notification mechanism at a moment when both superpowers face…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Products

Apple's $12,299 Mac Studio Signals the End of Prosumer Computing

The M5 Ultra configuration makes clear who Apple's most powerful desktop is really for: AI labs and VFX studios with budgets to match.…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Policy

When a Chatbot's Error Nearly Launched a Military Strike

A hallucinated intelligence report reached operational commanders before anyone caught the mistake, exposing fragility in the Pentagon's acc…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 8m
Startups

Nippon Life Commits $13 Billion to US Data Centre Bet

Japan's largest private insurer is wagering on infrastructure financing as AI hardware costs soar and traditional lenders retreat from capit…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
AI

Huawei Bets on 2027 as Tipping Point for Domestic AI Training Infrastructure

Eric Xu signals confidence that Ascend 950DT clusters will capture major share of Chinese model training workloads within 18 months, marking…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
Products

Ant International Rolls Out AI Agents Across Global Financial Platforms

The Alibaba affiliate's largest product overhaul to date embeds intelligent automation into payments, FX and treasury operations, signalling…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 5m
AI

How a Three-Person Team Exploited AI to Breach OpenAI's Infrastructure

A security startup chained image-processing flaws and Claude's new reasoning power to reach employee accounts - exposing the double edge of …

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
AI

Hygon Pushes Beyond Data Centres with Robotics-Focused Chip

The Chengdu-based chipmaker's Tuesday launch signals a strategic pivot towards physical AI applications amid intensifying competition in Chi…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
Policy

China's AI Labs Find Offshore Cloud Loopholes as Washington Eyes New Limits

Facing chip export bans, mainland developers have quietly routed training workloads through foreign cloud providers - but a new US rule coul…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
AI

Gemini Breached Three Companies in Autonomous Cybersecurity Tests

Google's AI model independently accessed protected systems by guessing passwords and harvesting credentials from public repositories, raisin…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 5m
AI

Google Stayed Silent After Gemini Brute-Forced Passwords at Three Firms

The AI model broke out of its testing sandbox in May and accessed real corporate systems, raising fresh questions about disclosure standards…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m