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Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost
Samaya AI has released Samaya Sterling , a post-trained model for agentic financial research. Sterling is built on NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Lightning , a 30B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters. On Samaya’s FrontierFinance benchmark , it scores 58.9%. Claude Fable 5.1 scores 55.9%. Each Sterling question costs $0.61, against $6.89 for Fable 5.1. For developers, the takeaway is a concrete recipe: co-train…
OpenAI doubles usage limits on Pro plans as competition with Anthropic heats up
OpenAI is doubling usage limits across its paid plans, from Pro 100 to Pro 500. A planned cut to the Pro 200 quota was reversed after user pushback. More efficient models like Terra and Sol should push usable capacity even higher. The move comes just ahead of Anthropic's IPO, as both companies fight for B2B dominance in AI. The article OpenAI doubles usage limits on Pro plans as competition with Anthropic heats up…
Experts adopt AI agent's random opinions and think they're their own, Anthropic study finds
Anthropic gave 50 experts an AI agent whose preferences were set by coin toss. The experts followed the agent's view up to 86 percent of the time on judgment calls, and most believed the conclusions were their own. The article Experts adopt AI agent's random opinions and think they're their own, Anthropic study finds appeared first on The Decoder .
A Defense Contractor Gave Their Personal AI Agent Access to a Secure Pentagon System
Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee’s personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched.
Anthropic is asking Wall Street to believe in AGI
Today on Decoder , I’m joined by Joey Brookhart, an analyst at the chip and AI research firm SemiAnalysis, to help me dig into the story inside the numbers of the Anthropic IPO filing — a document known as an S-1. Anthropic just filed its S-1 to go public on the Nasdaq, and it could start trading as soon as next month at a valuation of anywhere between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion. That would immediately make it…
Anthropic’s business plan: Build God or die trying
The Anthropic S-1 seems to have provided the financial justification for the company to spend as much as it possibly can on compute. If you are the kind of person who wonders if Anthropic is doing its level best to build a machine god while convincing Wall Street it's in the business of selling IT contracts, Anthropic has just offered a handy solution: Doing a bunch of things that look like you're trying to build…
OpenAI's Astra becomes the main target for Chinese AI labs after Anthropic tightens its defenses
Chinese AI labs are now mainly tapping OpenAI's most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, instead of Anthropic's Claude. The article OpenAI's Astra becomes the main target for Chinese AI labs after Anthropic tightens its defenses appeared first on The Decoder .
Anthropic’s IPO filing shows most of its compute goes to R&D, not serving customers — company details massive $800 billion in TPU and GPU contracts
Anthropic spent less than a third of its $8.9 billion first-half compute bill on serving customers, with most of the rest going into training, research, and running Claude internally, its S-1 filing shows. It has meanwhile signed up for hundreds of billions of dollars more in TPU and GPU capacity. By our math, it has meanwhile signed up for roughly $800 billion more in TPU and GPU capacity, and revenue per compute…
We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time
This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded. Around the same time, another OpenAI agent accessed private files from an Australian government website. It’s a problem that’s by no means confined to OpenAI. In the months since, Anthropic…
Infini-AI-Lab Releases Hermit, an Open-Source Harness Adapter Framework for AI Agents
Infini-AI-Lab has released Hermit , an open-source harness adapter framework for AI agents. Hermit is a framework from Infini-AI-Lab that trains an external ‘harness adapter’ while the agent’s model and harness stay frozen. The first release, v0.1.0 , shipped on October 25, 2026. CMU postdoc Haizhong Zheng announced it on X on October 27. For developers, the pitch is simple: adapt Codex or Claude Code agents to new…
Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity
Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind. The new Gemini 4 Carbon model offers improvements over
Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying
The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.
These Claude Enterprise features let you track AI ROI – what’s new
Is your pricey Claude Enterprise account worth it? Anthropic is trying to surface insights with three tools.
Google opens Android development to third-party AI agents and unveils new Gemini APIs
Google is opening up Android Studio to third-party AI agents. Through a new "Bring Your Own Agent" feature, the IDE now supports more than 40 coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex. Google says new terminal tools also help agents finish UI tasks 77 percent faster while using up to three times fewer tokens. Android development is becoming agent-centric too. The article Google opens…
Claude for Legal now verifies sources automatically, then hands the file to a lawyer
Anthropic is adding pre-built templates to Claude for Legal. These interactive overviews and tables simplify setup for legal teams and speed up routine work like contract reviews, while more than 60 integrations let firms connect their own databases directly. The article Claude for Legal now verifies sources automatically, then hands the file to a lawyer appeared first on The Decoder .
With AI writing the code, entrepreneurial thinking is now what counts most for newcomers at Anthropic
Anthropic manager Felix Rieseberg says the classic coding interview is dead because Claude now solves small programming tasks better than job candidates do. He'd rather see prototypes that show taste, empathy, and principled thinking, since in his words, "hunger beats tenure." That sounds empowering, but it pushes the bar for newcomers toward entrepreneurial thinking and assumes a hustle mentality not everyone…
AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense
Cybersecurity startup Cathedral used AI agents to break into Anthropic's internal systems through third-party software as part of a bug bounty program. Anthropic confirmed access to sales, HR, and IT data but disputes how deep the breach went. The incident shows how vulnerable even leading AI labs are through their external software dependencies. The article AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most…
VCs will make billions on Anthropic’s IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more
Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.
Who’s really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?
Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure.
Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity
Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic's 93-page "Risk Factor" tome.
Anthropic Says It Will Revolutionize Biology—Some Day
In breathless press releases and posts, the company has touted its models’ ability to deliver scientific breakthroughs. But its IPO filing taps the brakes on just how fast its AI will lead to big discoveries.
Anthropic’s elaborate plan to keep Wall Street at bay
Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it doesn't want to compromise its core mission of developing AI safely and for the benefit of humanity. But greater model capabilities bring greater risks, and shareholders eager for returns may
The Download: Anthropic’s IPO, smarter power grids, and exercise pills
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Will the real Anthropic please stand up? After weeks of frenzied speculation, Anthropic has filed its IPO prospectus. The 335-page document (100 pages or so are focused on risks) lays out…
I Tested Every Major AI Agent for a Day. Here’s the Best One
I ranked six AI agents—from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet—on how well they completed basic tasks.