AI Models, Tools & Pricing
Anthropic quietly updated their pricing page causing confusion about whether Claude Code would cost $100/month on the Pro plan, but made no official announcement and the situation remains unclear.
GitHub announced changes to its Copilot Individual plans on the same day as the Claude Code pricing confusion, signaling intensifying competition in the AI coding assistant market.
OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0, with Sam Altman stating the leap from gpt-image-1 to gpt-image-2 was equivalent in magnitude to the improvement seen between previous model generations.
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Anthropic, the maker of Claude, is partnering with Amazon on a $100 billion AI infrastructure deal to bulk up on chips and computing power after suffering capacity outages.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, the latest version of their flagship model, prompting analysis of its updated system prompts and tokenizer costs.
AI Security, Privacy & Surveillance
Mozilla applied an early version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview to Firefox, and this week's Firefox 150 release includes fixes for zero-day vulnerabilities discovered through the collaboration.
A privacy researcher discovered that Claude Desktop silently installs undocumented browser extensions for Chrome and other browsers without informing users.
Meta plans to capture employee mouse movements and keystrokes to use as training data for AI models, raising workplace privacy concerns.
A Lawfare article argues it is time to ban the commercial sale of precise geolocation data, citing the serious privacy and safety risks it poses.