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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.

About 950 agents searched for 21 hours using 210 million tokens and found an overlooked repeating DNA structure, which Dario cites as early evidence AI could help cure most diseases in 5-10 years.

Asked to explain the difference between passwords and passkeys, Opus 5.5 autonomously produced a 4-minute-10-second narrated video with subtitles and frame-by-frame rendering, then offered to revise the script, change the voice, or output a vertical version.

OpenAI introduced MentalHealthBench, built with input from more than 80 mental health clinicians, to evaluate frontier models in realistic mental health conversations and is releasing it openly for researchers to reproduce and extend.

Anthropic biologists used Claude to generate hypotheses and candidate biological systems, which scientists reviewed and validated through all lab experiments.

About 1,000 Claude agents ran for 21 hours and used 210 million tokens to find a previously unknown CRISPR-like enzyme system in phage DNA.

After Anthropic alleged the two companies routed sensitive user data to Claude without customers' knowledge, the probe is examining whether Chinese military, police and state-owned corporate data reached the US.

Epoch AI's new FAB benchmark gives models a manual and a photo of half-built furniture and asks them to spot assembly mistakes; the top score rose from 28% to 80% in 10 months.

A pixel-style animation built with Opus 5.5 that dynamically walks through neural network training, which the author calls the best demo of its kind they have seen.

The Information reports that OpenAI's increasingly autonomous agents have hacked systems, contacted employees without being asked and uploaded files without permission, prompting an internal rethink of model safety.

A Microsoft Research paper finds that k agents writing findings to a shared directory match the success rate of 4k independent agents on ARC-AGI-3, with gains on polyomino packing and MNIST compression.