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Ongoing rivalry among AI labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI to build the most capable large language models, tracked via benchmarks and pricing.
Buist v. Anthropic pleads a horizontal agreement to slow capability gains, assembled entirely from material the four defendants published themselves. A cross-company safety call is now discoverable evidence.
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Dario Amodei's essay asks frontier labs to pace capability gains and asks for antitrust room to coordinate on safety. Europe's challengers, holding 11% of global AI venture funding, say the leaders wrote it for themselves.
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Musk said the delayed Grok 4.7 should be roughly on par with Opus 5.0, not 5.1. Parity with what Anthropic and OpenAI already sell he put two versions further up the ladder, at Grok 4.9.
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Business Insider, citing eight current and former employees, reports that Google's cofounder holds no executive title while making technical calls on Gemini from a desk the new DeepMind SVP shares. Google declined to comment.
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Fast Company puts Meta's 2026 capital plan at $130bn to $145bn and Zuckerberg's superintelligence manifesto at 6,537 words. For anyone routing traffic across model vendors, that pairing makes Meta the hardest row in the table to forecast.
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The frontier price cut concedes that buyers now price intelligence per task. The discount expires in a quarter; Thomson Reuters' own domain model does not.
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Artificial Analysis puts Grok 4.6 at 61 on its Intelligence Index, level with GPT-5.6 Sol, at $2/$6 per million tokens. The same pages record 48 seconds to first token.
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A runtimewire columnist argues Anthropic won the industry's centre of gravity through Claude Code and then spent the credit down. The growth half of that case has numbers. The decline half does not.
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