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Claude Haiku 5.5 cuts costs for everyday AI tasks, with API rates up to 20x below Sonnet and Anthropic-reported benchmark gains over GPT-6 Luna.
Claude Max includes $100 or $200 in monthly API credits, while Team receives a shared balance capped at $500. Pro users are excluded.
Google’s SynthID Detector is now available globally for image, video and audio checks. It detects supported AI watermarks, rather than proving a file is real.
Google Playground turns prompts into browser games without coding. Unity Spark will add a more advanced creation path, with a closed beta coming soon.
OpenAI has released 722 mathematics manuscripts from an unreleased AI model, with many Lean proofs available and some results still awaiting verification.
BlackRock sees stablecoins as a potential payment method for AI agents buying data and compute, while the Bitcoin savings thesis rests on simulations.
Arthur Hayes argues an AI investment bust could bring rescue liquidity for Bitcoin and cheaper compute for agents, while pitching his developing FLOP network.
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