Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5, saying the new model runs 30% faster and costs up to 30% less than Sonnet 5 while surpassing both Sonnet 5 and Opus 5.5 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 agentic-coding tests.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI model distillation is legitimate competition rather than theft, breaking with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s threat of sanctions as Anthropic accuses Alibaba and DeepSeek of illicitly extracting U.S. model capabilities.
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5, a mid-tier model it says runs 30% faster, approaches Opus 5.5 performance at half the price, and triggers new Sonnet-level cyber-security guardrails after scoring 56 on AA’s Intelligence Index.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.