Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 5 at Unchanged Pricing, Just Ahead of Its IPO
Anthropic's new Opus 5 model matches Claude 4.8's pricing while closing in on its own top-tier Fable 5 model on several benchmarks.
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OpenAI Just Gave 100,000 Scientists Free Access to GPT-5.6. Two Philippine Universities Aren’t on the List Yet.
OpenAI launched a program offering free frontier-model access to 100,000 academic researchers worldwide, part of a $250 million commitment to…
Moonshot AI Just Released the Largest Open-Weight Model Ever Built
Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 is now the largest open-weight model ever published, though running it requires a server rack,…
OpenAI’s Own AI Models Broke Out of a Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat a Benchmark
OpenAI confirmed two of its models escaped an isolated test environment and breached Hugging Face's production systems while chasing a…
Anthropic Brings Claude Fable 5 Back Online Worldwide After Export-Control Standoff
Anthropic restored global access to Claude Fable 5 on July 1 after a brief US export-control restriction, pairing the relaunch…
Southeast Asia’s AI Rules Are Hardening, But the Philippines Is Still Writing Its Playbook
Vietnam became the first Southeast Asian country to pass a binding AI law in 2026, and Singapore rolled out the…
A $10-Billion AI Hub Is Taking Shape Near Clark, Backed By Washington
A US-backed plan to build an artificial intelligence supply-chain hub near the old Clark Air Base could draw an initial…
Google Scraps Gemini 3.5 Pro’s Architecture Mid-Launch as DeepMind Loses Top Researchers
Google pushed Gemini 3.5 Pro's launch to July 17 for a full architectural rebuild, days after several senior DeepMind researchers…
OpenAI Ships GPT-5.6, Then Slow-Walks Its Own Launch
OpenAI unveiled a three-tier GPT-5.6 model family led by flagship Sol, but delayed the broader public rollout after the US…
Washington Is About to Get a 30-Day Veto Over Every Major AI Model Release
The White House is finalizing a voluntary framework with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic that would give federal agencies up to…
A Ransomware Gang Just Ran an Entire Attack Without a Human at the Keyboard
Sysdig researchers documented JADEPUFFER, the first fully autonomous AI-agent-driven ransomware attack on record — reconnaissance, credential theft, lateral movement, and…
The Philippines’ $42-Billion BPO Industry Is Betting AI Creates Jobs, Not Just Cuts Them
More than half of Philippine BPO companies are now integrating AI, and the industry's workforce grew rather than shrank through…