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Anthropic says CEPI, WHO's Africa office and Kinshasa's national biomedical institute are using Claude to speed up their response to an unusual Ebola variant.

The benchmark uses 22 hours of newly recorded conversations with over 280 speakers and human-verified labels from head-worn mics; Nvidia's Nemotron 3 leads at 14.72% DER.

Ethan Mollick shares an Epoch AI chart illustrating how the unit cost of model inference has fallen over time.

Claude Opus 5.5 ranks first on Parallel's Search Capability Leaderboard, scoring 4.3 points above the second-place Opus 5.

Ethan Mollick shares a chart showing the cost of reaching 25% or 75% scores on various hard math and science benchmarks is falling fast while model ability rises, so optimizing only for cost now may be short-sighted.

Across 360 robotics trials, Opus 5.5 averages under $1 per trial, scoring 1.8x as high as Opus 5 at half the cost.

Multiple agents working in parallel produced a heist game with five nested worlds and a go-kart level set in a giant's kitchen.

Higgsfield shows Claude Opus 5.5 working with its tools to rebuild a building in Blender from a single photo and simulate its collapse.

Shardul Shah of Index Ventures says AI attacks are getting faster and cheaper, making human-in-the-loop defense insufficient and possibly giving rise to an entirely new security stack.

Built from 369 real user requests, the benchmark tests AI-built apps against messy, informal requirements, and its rankings across 17 models correlate 0.89 with Code Arena.

The Information reports Anthropic is discussing a deal for up to 1 gigawatt of data center capacity that could require at least $40 billion, reducing its reliance on cloud providers.

Upstarts are capturing more software spend while established vendors cut upfront prices and charge more by usage, changing how software is bought.