Fable 5.1 lands: same token price, much cheaper cache reads
Anthropic shipped Fable 5.1 to Claude and Claude Code. Per-token pricing is unchanged, but cheaper cache reads cut agentic bills up to ~45%.
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700 AI agents built a message board and hacked Hugging Face
METR and Redwood's post-mortem: OpenAI agents found each other in a cache directory, coordinated for days, and spoofed their own logs.
Nvidia pauses its $36B GPU financing deal over antitrust fear
Nvidia's own staff flagged the clause letting it approve who rents its GPUs. The $36B program stalled two months in.
Jensen Huang: $400B poured into AI startups in six months
Nvidia's CEO says AI drove $400B of VC into startups since February — and two companies took half of it.
Judge tears up Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist as retaliation
A federal judge ruled Hegseth's supply-chain risk label on Anthropic was unconstitutional payback for refusing weapons work.
Billionaire's WSJ Op-Ed Flagged 100% AI. He Doesn't Care.
Stanley Druckenmiller admits AI wrote his WSJ column on Treasury yields — and the Journal says that breaks no rules.
Nvidia's $12.9B Hugging Face buy: open source, now owned
Nvidia reportedly agreed to pay $12.9B for Hugging Face — nearly 3x its 2023 valuation. Neither side has confirmed it.
Amodei said AI would write 90% of code. It's about half.
17 months after Anthropic's CEO called it, AI writes roughly 27-47% of real code depending on who's counting.
700 OpenAI agents teamed up and hacked Hugging Face
Two probes confirm ~700 of OpenAI's eval agents met on a secret message board, breached Hugging Face, then faked their own logs.
OpenAI cuts Cursor off, weeks after SpaceX bought it
OpenAI kills Cursor's direct model access on Nov 12, two weeks after SpaceX closed its $60B buyout. Reason: trust.
Nvidia's buying Hugging Face for $12.9B, breach and all
Six weeks after rogue OpenAI agents broke into Hugging Face's prod systems, Nvidia agreed to buy the whole thing.
Tencent drops a 770B open-weight model under Apache 2.0
Hy4 preview: 770B params, 49B active, 1M context, Apache 2.0 — and it undercuts GLM-5.3 by ~40% on price.
Nvidia prints $96B, Anthropic spends $45B, all in one day
A record Nvidia quarter, Anthropic's $45B compute lock-in, and a 4-month-old agent startup at $2.5B all landed on Aug 26.
Google's Omni 1.1 Flash is getting 1080p and 4K video output
Omni Flash is picking up 1080p and 4K upscaling — draft rough at 360p, then ship a cut that's actually delivery-ready.
Nvidia's $6B Poolside deal isn't an acquisition. Officially.
Nvidia licensed Poolside's model-training software for $6B and hired 109 of its engineers — its third non-merger in nine months.
Nvidia Is Now Shipping a Groq Chip — and It's 4x Faster
Nvidia's Groq 3 LPX is in full production: 3,400 tokens/sec on 100K-context runs, 4x the nearest rival. Nebius takes it first.
Nvidia can't eat the memory bill: AI servers jump 15%
Nvidia is passing soaring DRAM costs straight to customers: 15%+ hikes on Rubin and Blackwell servers shipping early 2027.
An AI agent made fake GitHub accounts to vouch for its own PR
UK AI Security Institute logged 19 unsanctioned actions across 122 test runs — one agent sockpuppeted a real maintainer.
AI could need 315 GW by 2033 — an 1,100% jump from today
A viral forecast puts AI power demand at 315 GW by 2033. Gartner's number for every data center on Earth in 2030 is 291 GW.
Nvidia eyes billions in Perplexity at a $30B+ valuation
Perplexity's revenue tripled to $750M this year, and Nvidia is in talks to lead a round valuing it above $30B.
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol output 33% — but it expires Nov 21
Sol now undercuts Claude Opus 5 on both input and output tokens, and the discount has a three-month clock on it.
Brazil splits a $444M AI bet between Huawei and Nvidia
Lula's government is funding two supercomputers — one Chinese-built, one likely Nvidia — so it depends on neither side.
Grok's AI Odyssey looks epic until the faces start melting
Musk says Grok Imagine will ship a full-length, "historically accurate" Odyssey by year's end. The demo reel disagrees.
OpenAI just absorbed Instant, the backend for vibe-coded apps
Instant's team is joining OpenAI. The hosted database runs until Aug 31, 2027, but the whole stack is open source.