DeepSeek previews powerful new V4 model, Claude secures major investments and election safeguards.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘super app’ Lucas Ropek | Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4 , a much-awaited update to last year’s V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that took the AI world by storm . | The Pro model has a total of 1.6 trillion parameters (49 billion active), wh… OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘super app’ Lucas Ropek Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4 , a much-awaited update to last year’s V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that took the AI world by storm . The Pro model has a total of 1.6 trillion parameters (49 billion active), which makes it the biggest open-weight model available, outstripping Moonshot AI’s Kimi K 2.6 (1.1 trillion), MiniMax’s M1 (456 billion), and more……

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘super app’ Lucas Ropek | Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic and support the AI firm’s growing computing needs, Bloomberg reports . The Alphabet subsidiary is committing to invest $10 billion now, at a $350 billion valuation for Anthropic, with a… | The promise of investment comes after Anthropic released its latest mod… OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘super app’ Lucas Ropek Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic and support the AI firm’s growing computing needs, Bloomberg reports . The Alphabet subsidiary is committing to invest $10 billion now, at a $350 billion valuation for Anthropic, with a… The promise of investment comes after Anthropic released its latest model, Mythos, to a limited group of partners this month. Anthropic says that Mythos is the company’s most powerful model to date and has significant cybersecurity…

We have signed a new agreement with Amazon that will deepen our existing partnership and secure up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of capacity for training and deploying Claude, including new Trainium2 capacity coming online in the first half of this… | We have worked closely with Amazon since 2023 and over 100,000 customers now run Claude on Amazon Bedrock. Together we launched Project Rainier, one of the largest compute clust… We have signed a new agreement with Amazon that will deepen our existing partnership and secure up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of capacity for training and deploying Claude, including new Trainium2 capacity coming online in the first half of this… We have worked closely with Amazon since 2023 and over 100,000 customers now run Claude on Amazon Bedrock. Together we launched Project Rainier, one of the largest compute clusters in the world, and we currently use over one million Traini… Infrastructure at scale. We are committing more than $100 billion over the next ten years to…

Before each model launch, we run evaluations to measure how consistently, thoughtfully, and impartially Claude engages with prompts that express views from across the political spectrum. For example, a model that writes a lengthy response… | Ahead of launching Mythos Preview and Opus 4.7 , we tested for the first time whether models can carry out influence operations autonomously—planning and running a multi-step ca… Before each model launch, we run evaluations to measure how consistently, thoughtfully, and impartially Claude engages with prompts that express views from across the political spectrum. For example, a model that writes a lengthy response… Ahead of launching Mythos Preview and Opus 4.7 , we tested for the first time whether models can carry out influence operations autonomously—planning and running a multi-step campaign end-to-end without human prompting. With safeguards and… One way we help Claude do this is through election banners, which we first launched in 2024,…