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Today in brief.
Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts small-model costs by about 75%
Anthropic's new Haiku is its fastest and cheapest model yet, it gets an effort dial, and Sonnet 5.5 got cheaper on agent work the same day.
🤖 AI
GPT-6 and Intelligent UI roll out to every ChatGPT user
ChatGPT now answers with interactive charts, visuals and small tools built on the fly, powered by GPT-6, and OpenAI says it is rolling out to everyone.
🔬 Science
Free plumbing, paid for by robot training data
HUMXN covers home repairs in three US cities if the technician wears a camera, turning skilled trade work into data for robots.
🔬 Science
Texas freezes data center permits as the queue hits 474 GW
Texas paused new data center permits after its request queue grew more than sevenfold in 18 months, while the whole US grid plans to add just 86 GW this year.
🔧 Tech
Open models to run today: Perplexity search embeddings, Liquid's 8 ms decider
Perplexity open-sourced embeddings that search text, images and PDF pages with no OCR, and Liquid AI shipped a 3B model that answers yes/no style decisions in milliseconds.
🔬 Science
A $1.8B push to build a working virtual human cell
Biohub's Virtual Biology initiative now has Google DeepMind, Meta, Isomorphic Labs and the US government behind it, aiming for a predictive model of the human cell within five years.
💼 Business
Try today: Google Playground games, Runway in ChatGPT, an Opus explainer
Build a browser game from a prompt, run Runway inside ChatGPT, and turn a research paper into a motion graphics video with one prompt.
🏛️ Policy
SynthID Detector opens to everyone, with OpenAI and Nvidia on board
Google's checker for AI-generated content is now public, and it reads watermarks from partner tools too, with Apple coming soon.
🏛️ Policy
Chatbots quote different prices by wealth, and teen ChatGPT draws fire
A study says Claude and ChatGPT offer different shopping prices depending on how wealthy you seem, and OpenAI's teen product got an "unacceptable risk" rating the day it shipped updates.
🤖 AI
Copilot gets your Windows files, and macOS 27 won't let you delete its AI
Microsoft is letting Copilot act on local files and launched Nvidia-chip AI PCs, while Mac users are angry they can't remove the built-in models.
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