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Claude Comes to 2007 Nokia Series 40 Phones Through Unofficial Java ME Client

Sep 28, 2026

GitHub

Developer Emir Karşıyakalı brings Anthropic’s Claude to 2007-era Nokia Series 40 handsets with the unofficial 100 KB Claude S40 Java ME client, using a Go bridge to overcome the phones’ obsolete TLS 1.0 connection limits.

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Qualcomm Says Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 Runs 30B-Parameter AI Models Locally on Phones

Sep 28, 2026

The Deep View

Qualcomm says its Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 can run 30-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts AI models directly on phones by loading needed experts from flash storage instead of requiring roughly 32GB of RAM.

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DeepSeek Hits $1 Billion Revenue Run Rate as $7.5 Billion Funding Round Values It at $74 Billion

Sep 25, 2026

TNW | Business

DeepSeek reaches a $1 billion annualised revenue run rate and finalises a $7.5 billion funding round valuing it at about $74 billion, despite raising API fees by 2.3 to 4.5 times.

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OpenAI Rolls Back GPT-4o Update After ChatGPT Turns Overly Sycophantic

Sep 25, 2026

OpenAI

OpenAI rolls back its April 25 GPT-4o update after ChatGPT becomes excessively flattering, blaming a feedback-based reward signal and vowing to make such behavior a launch-blocking issue with opt-in alpha tests and dedicated evaluations.

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Basecamp Research raises $140 million to develop AI-designed therapeutics

Sep 24, 2026

Tech.eu

Basecamp Research raises a $140 million Series C to train AI models for designing therapeutics, beginning with in vivo cell therapy, in a round led by S32 with Nvidia’s NVentures and Anthropic’s Anthology Fund participating.

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Anthropic Cuts Claude Opus 5.5 Token Prices, Says Typical Coding Sessions Cost 31% Less

Sep 23, 2026

Claude

Anthropic cuts Claude Opus 5.5 token prices—20% for input and output and 60% for cache reads—saying a representative Claude Code session now costs $2.40 versus $3.50 on Opus 5.

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OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna at About Half the Price of Predecessors

Sep 23, 2026

The Deep View

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna at roughly half the prior generation’s price, with Sol costing $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens while claiming benchmark wins over Claude Opus 5.

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Anthropic Unveils Claude Opus 5.5, Its Strongest Behavioral-Alignment Model Yet

Sep 23, 2026

The Deep View

Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 5.5 as its strongest behavioral-alignment model, restricting its use for cybersecurity and biology tasks to vetted organizations while pricing it at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens.

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Alibaba Unveils Zhenwu V900, Calls It China’s Most Powerful AI Chip to Challenge Nvidia

Sep 23, 2026

Bloomberg.com

Alibaba unveils its T-Head-designed Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, claiming it is China’s most powerful chip and can be clustered in systems of up to 500,000 units to train frontier models in a challenge to Nvidia.

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Anthropic and OpenAI cut flagship AI model prices as OpenAI claims math breakthroughs

Sep 23, 2026

The Rundown AI

Anthropic and OpenAI slash flagship AI model prices—Claude Opus 5.5 costs 40% less and GPT-6 Sol and Luna half as much—while OpenAI says an internal system has solved more than 100 open math problems since Aug. 28.

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