Replit CEO Amjad Masad says OpenAI's ChatGPT is now the default model on the coding platform, replacing Anthropic's Claude, citing cost, performance, and partnership. Anthropic models remain available to users. Masad said Replit had been a top-five Anthropic customer, but people familiar with the partnership disputed that it ended.
Nvidia partners with Siemens to build AI data centers using digital twins, virtual replicas that let engineers simulate facilities before construction. Siemens' Ales Alajbegovic says digital twins can improve time-to-token, breaking ground to first useful AI query, by roughly 40%. Nvidia estimates well over 100 projects are underway globally as demand strains capacity.
Anthropic opens its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and signs an MOU with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information covering AI safety, security and model evaluation. An Anthropic Economic Index ranks Singapore second of 121 countries in Claude.ai usage per capita. GovTech Singapore says more than 1,500 engineers use Claude Code.
SpaceX Super Intelligence bundles X Premium, Grok, and Cursor into one plan called The X Subscription. Tiers run from a free option to Plus at $8 a month, Premium at $30, Super at $100, and Ultra at $200, with AI usage caps rising by tier. The company says Premium or higher is required for the newest Grok models.
Anthropic cuts Claude Haiku 5.5 to $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens, 90% below Haiku 4.5. Microsoft says its Maia chips become the primary inference system for its products from 2027, starting with Copilot. Zenity Labs says one prompt exposed every AgentCore agent in an AWS account.
Salesforce signs a definitive agreement to acquire Loops, an AI analytics platform that monitors business performance and explains why metrics change. Salesforce says it plans to fold Loops's technology and specialized talent into Tableau after closing. The deal is expected to close in early November, subject to customary conditions, Salesforce says.
Meta Superintelligence Labs releases Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, with the full model placing second on Artificial Analysis' intelligence rankings behind Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. Wonder Full is limited to Muse Code plans at $50 or $200 monthly. Alexandr Wang says API prices will sit below OpenAI and Anthropic's top models.
Apple tells the European Commission it will offer jobs to certain Huxe AI employees and take a non-exclusive license to the startup's intellectual property, a reverse acqui-hire disclosed June 9. Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM podcast developers, shut down May 21 and said it would delete user data. Apple did not say who got offers or its plans.
Meta releases its Meta VR Glasses, a 100-gram headset with gesture and eye tracking plus a 5K Micro-OLED display rated at 37 pixels per degree. Reviewer Sabrina Ortiz calls them front-heavy and says the pocket-sized computing puck hurts portability. Meta prices them at $1,299, against $2,195 for Snap Specs.
OpenAI tells investors its annualized revenue is approaching $50 billion, the Financial Times reports, about $20 billion below the $70 billion figure outlets previously cited. The gap partly reflects method: Anthropic counts cloud partner sales, OpenAI does not. OpenAI raised $122 billion in a March round and pushed its IPO to early 2027.