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Today in brief.
Sonnet 5 lands cheaper and more agentic
Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5 - near Opus 4.8-level performance at a fraction of the price, and it's the default model for Free and Pro users starting today.
🤖 AI
OpenAI's GeneBench-Pro tests AI on real biology
OpenAI introduced GeneBench-Pro, a benchmark for a harder kind of progress: how well agents navigate messy biological data and make the judgment calls real computational research depends on.
🎬 Media
Google ships a faster image model and a video one
Google DeepMind dropped Nano Banana 2 Lite (its fastest, cheapest image model) and Gemini Omni Flash (video generation and editing via API) on the same day.
💼 Business
OpenAI halves its inference cost
Per The Information, OpenAI found inference optimizations that more than halved the cost of running its current models - the moat is becoming cost, not just capability.
🏛️ Policy
Fable 5 and Mythos 5 get un-banned
The US Commerce Department lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 - Anthropic starts restoring access tomorrow after the models were pulled.
🔬 Science
Etched exits stealth with an LLM-on-silicon chip
AI-chip startup Etched came out of stealth with $800M raised and $1B in contracts - its Sohu chip hardcodes transformer attention directly into silicon.
🏛️ Policy
AI browsers can be jailbroken into ignoring their guardrails
A new attack lulls AI browsers into a 'dream world' where their safety guardrails no longer apply - one more reason the agentic-browser push has a real security hole.
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