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Anthropic's Fable 5.2 Launches at $8 per Million Tokens
Anthropic's new model costs $8 and $40 per million tokens, surpasses Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra in agent tests, and is available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
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Anthropic Seals $3.4B Gas Generator Deal, Says FT
According to the Financial Times, Anthropic took orders for 1.7 GW of Caterpillar generators from OnePWR. The company has not commented; the deal was made public during the IPO roadshow week.
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DeepSeek's Harness Reaches 1.54M Daily Users
DeepSeek's open-source agent grew its daily user base by 5.7x in five weeks, processing 92 trillion tokens daily, with 35K plugins but no official store yet.
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AI Use Cuts Hiring, Not Layoffs, Says Bank of England
November 5 report shows UK firms using AI hire less, without layoffs. In the US, professional services added 70,000 jobs in October.
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Canva's 22% Workforce Shakeup and Perkins' Vision
Melanie Perkins' memo impacts 1,271 employees, 22% of the team, amid Canva's first slowdown in a decade. The text does not attribute cuts to AI, but the design market has shifted.
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Canva cuts or reallocates 1,271 roles, 22% of workforce
In its first round of cuts in 13 years, CEO Melanie Perkins admits to slower growth and merges product, growth, and platform. The company denies AI will replace human roles.
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Goldman Limits Claude Code and GitHub to Engineers and Quants
According to Bloomberg, October's internal guidance restricted AI coding tools for traders and bankers. The bank cites productivity and risk, four months after its CIO praised vibe coding.
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Barclays and DNB Cut IT Jobs; Mizuho Takes the Opposite Route
NatWest cuts 1,000 jobs this quarter; CaixaBank avoids AI layoffs. In Europe, the focus has been on technology roles, while in Japan, Mizuho retrains staff into developers.
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Oracle Launches AI Agents to Speed Up Fusion Implementation
At Oracle AI World, the company unveiled six agents for Fusion’s setup and opened a Git repository. A pilot client reported up to 80% less effort in certain tasks.
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Gemini 4 Carbon Launch Limited to Cyber Defense Teams
Google DeepMind releases Gemini 4 Carbon with 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, first to verified defenders in the Fairwind program, with no date for broad access.
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Oracle to Offer Google TPUs on OCI in 2027, Expands Nvidia
At Oracle AI World, the company announced it will be the first hyperscale cloud outside Google to sell TPUs starting in 2027, alongside Nvidia's Vera Rubin. Cerebras arrives the same year. Pricing and regions remain unclear.
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Anthropic and OpenAI Donate Agent Standards to Linux Foundation
Anthropic donates Agent Skills, adopted by over 70 platforms, to Agentic AI Foundation. OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Alibaba also contribute projects, bringing the foundation to ten standards in one year.
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