Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 5.5, a Small Model Priced Like a Rounding Error
Ten cents per million input tokens, effort controls, and a computer-use score that went from 15.7% to 72.4%, per the vendor.
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Google Unveils Most Powerful Model Yet, Lets Approximately Nobody Use It
Gemini 4 Argon leads 13 of 18 disclosed benchmarks, and is available to a carefully vetted guest list — which is one way to win a leaderboard.
xAI Launches a Model That Is Better Than the Last One, Except on the Tests
Grok 4.7 arrived with unchanged pricing, a bigger model, and an independent benchmark score that trails Claude and GPT-6 — plus a public argument with a Cursor executive over whether it's secretly twice as expensive to actually run.
Anthropic and OpenAI Cut Prices on the Same Day, Definitely Did Not Coordinate About It
Claude Opus 5.5 launched with a 20% price cut. An hour later, OpenAI answered with GPT-6 Sol and Luna at up to half off, because nothing says 'independent business strategy' like matching your rival's move within sixty minutes.
OpenAI Hits a Billion Users, Celebrates by Charging Almost Nothing
One billion active users, 80% price cuts, and a global race to the bottom so intense that China's government has formally asked its AI industry to please stop.