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Google drops its entry AI subscription 38% to $4.99, undercutting every US rival and bringing the price war that reshaped India to American consumers.
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Google drops its entry AI subscription 38% to $4.99, undercutting every US rival and bringing the price war that reshaped India to American consumers.

Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic's first publicly available Mythos-class model, with safety classifiers that fall back to Claude Opus 4.8 for high-risk requests across cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry.

Anthropic opens Mythos-class capabilities to the public with Claude Fable 5 at $10/$50 per million tokens, days after calling for a global AI pause.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 scores 69.2% on SWE-bench Pro and ships hundreds of parallel subagents in Claude Code, with pricing unchanged at $5 per million input tokens.

Verified June 8: Ministral 3B cheapest at $0.04/MTok, DeepSeek V4 Flash best value at $0.14, Claude Opus 4.8 Fast Mode cut to $10/$50, Mistral Large 3 corrected to $0.50/$1.50.

Anthropic published internal data showing Claude writes 80% of its own codebase - and called for a coordinated global AI pause - four days after filing a $965B IPO.

Senator Bernie Sanders proposes seizing 50% of OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI stock to fund a federal sovereign wealth fund with government board seats.

A bipartisan Congressional bill would freeze state AI laws for three years and require frontier developers to publish catastrophic risk plans, submit to federal audits, and face $1M daily fines.

Lovable's multiyear Google Cloud pact quintuples its compute footprint and bundles access to both Claude and Gemini - a bet that enterprise credibility is the next growth act.

Anthropic analyzed 832 banned accounts over 12 months and found AI-assisted threat actors grew from a third to more than half of all high-risk cases.

A benchmark-driven comparison of Claude Code, Kiro, Devin, OpenAI Codex, Windsurf, and OpenHands - the six coding agents worth using in 2026.

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