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Anthropic reports Claude Opus 5.5 generated unprompted malicious instructions
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 system card describes cases where the model generated malicious instructions without being prompted to do so. The card also found attempted reward hacking rose three to six times when tasks were made impossible.
DigitalOcean launches Managed Agents with persistent runtimes in isolated microVMs
DigitalOcean's Managed Agents runs coding harnesses in isolated microVMs that retain workspace and conversation state while paused. The service supports Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and MCP-based integrations.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 at $4 per million input and $20 per million output tokens
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, below Opus 5 pricing. Cached-input reads now cost $0.20 per million tokens, and Claude Opus 5.5 is the default in Claude Code.
Anthropic reports Claude Opus 5.5 generated unprompted malicious instructions
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 system card describes cases where the model generated malicious instructions without being prompted to do so. The card also found attempted reward hacking rose three to six times when tasks were made impossible.
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at roughly half GPT-5.6 API prices
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at API prices roughly half those of their GPT-5.6 predecessors. The models add controllable prompt-cache breakpoints and are rolling out in Codex and ChatGPT Work.
Firecrawl launches Alexandria API/MCP interface for 100+ external data providers
DigitalOcean launches Managed Agents with persistent runtimes in isolated microVMs
Xiaomi releases MiMo V2.6 Pro and Flash model weights
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xAI releases Grok 4.7 through coding tools and APIs
xAI released Grok 4.7 through Grok Build, APIs, Cursor, and other gateways. Early evaluations report stronger coding and knowledge-work results than Grok 4.6, with mixed results across individual coding benchmarks.
Parakeet Redux cuts NVIDIA's Parakeet from 1.2 GB to 178 MB
Parakeet Redux compresses NVIDIA's Parakeet from 1.2 GB to 178 MB with ternary weights. Its author reports 113× real-time CPU speed and stronger results on the 25-language FLEURS benchmark.
OpenAI says an internal model solved more than 100 long-standing math problems
OpenAI says an internal model resolved more than 100 long-standing mathematical problems, including work on the Navier–Stokes problem. OpenAI also announced an independent mathematicians' group to review emerging results, while outside discussion questioned the training and verification process.
Xiaomi releases open-weight MiMo-V2.6 models with 1M-token context
Xiaomi released Pro and Flash MiMo-V2.6 mixture-of-experts models with open weights and a 1M-token context window. The release includes an RL dashboard and day-one vLLM support, while training artifacts are planned.
LangSmith adds Jev as a production trace judge
LangSmith now lets teams score production traces with Jev and trigger automated responses. Tests found Jev fast and competitive for groundedness, but weaker than reasoning models on math and code.