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- Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [9d]
- Anthropic prices Fable 5.1 at $10/1M input tokens and $50/1M output tokens, unchanged from Fable 5, and cuts cache read pricing by 75% to $0.25/1M tokens (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack) [9d]
- India's JioHotstar launches internationally without live sports, replacing Hotstar in the UK, Canada, and Singapore; the company says it has 500M+ MAUs in India (TechCrunch) [9d]
- IPO filing: SB Energy says it has 8.8GW of data center capacity contracted or under construction across Texas and Ohio and a $430B data center segment backlog (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg) [9d]
- Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the Sun's nearest star system, by 2029, using a trajectory discovered by PSI's AI system (Michelle Kim/MIT Technology Review) [9d]
- MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $771.8M, vs. $735M est., Atlas revenue up ~29% YoY, below major hedge funds' expectations; MDB drops 12%+ after hours (Mariapaula Gonzalez/Barron's Online) [9d]
- Google rolls out its September Android Drop, with remembered items in Find Hub, Guided vision in Gemini Live, Motion Assist to reduce motion sickness, and more (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica) [9d]
- Filing: Apple says John Ternus will get a compensation package worth ~$58M in FY 2027, while Tim Cook's role as executive chairman will pay ~$47M (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [9d]
- Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals but still needs to complete post-training (Erin Woo/Wall Street Journal) [9d]
- The US urged G20 members to avoid writing entirely new AI regulations, and instead focus on writing rules for "novel" situations that involve the tech (Reuters) [9d]
- Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.41B, vs. $3.35B est., and acquires Console, which provides AI-powered IT service management (Samantha Subin/CNBC) [9d]
- Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are Anthropic's first models to watermark text outputs; a detection API is available to eligible groups as required under EU law (Ben Patterson/PCWorld) [9d]
- Apple updates Apple Maps to show Lake America for US users, Lake Ontario for Canadian users, and both for the rest of the world, following Trump's EO (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [9d]
- Memo: Alexandr Wang says Meta is switching from Google Chat to Slack for internal communications as Slack is the "strongest platform available today for agents" (Business Insider) [9d]
- Dell reports Q2 revenue up 58% YoY to $46.97B, vs. $44.92B est., and forecasts $192B in FY 2027 revenue, vs. $172.67B est.; DELL jumps 9%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [9d]
- OpenAI says Astra is its first model to reach its "Critical" cyber threshold and warns safeguards may mistakenly flag legitimate activity as cyber misuse (Ina Fried/Axios) [9d]
- OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra "soon" but will make its advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners (Wired) [9d]
- Sources: AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, has hit a valuation of $3.2B, up from $300M in April, and is profitable (Anna Tong/Forbes) [9d]
- Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe, MSL's first real-time audio perception model, with streaming automatic speech recognition, trained with 70+ languages (Meta AI Research) [9d]
- Wafer, which makes AI agents that optimize open-source models for a business's workload, raised a $40M Series A, a source says at a $200M+ valuation (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) [9d]
- Fei-Fei Li's World Labs unveils Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates image/video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D (World Labs) [9d]
- Anthropic says Fable 5.1 sets new standards on coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks, and can fix the root causes of software issues (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) [9d]
- Aslan, which offers AI agents for the FBI and wider intelligence community that can pose as analysts and undercover spies in online forums, raised $20.8M (Sam Sabin/Axios) [9d]
- Anthropic launches Enterprise Frontier Safeguards to let businesses control how their data is reviewed, stored, and managed, after pushback from customers (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [9d]
- Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) [9d]
- Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards (Anthropic) [9d]
- Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform focused on Latinos in the US, raised a $200M Series C co-led by a16z and GC, including $113M in debt (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) [9d]
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