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Anthropic ships Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens, a 90% cut from Haiku 4.5 on short prompts
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The model went live on October 7, 2026, and is available on the Claude Platform, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Anthropic puts the average saving versus Haiku 4.5 at about 75%, because about 90% of Haiku 4.5 requests fell into the lower tier.
SpaceX Debt financing (reportedly in talks) · led by Apollo Global Management
$40B
DeepSeek Growth · led by CATL · val. $74B
$11.9B
Lambda Pre-IPO round · led by Coatue · val. $14.5B
$4B
Vinci Series B · led by Advent International · val. $1.5B
$250M
Atomic Machines Venture round · led by KAS Venture Partners
$250M
Ledgebrook Equity round · led by Rockefeller Capital Management
$200M
Nous Research Series B · led by Robot Ventures · val. $1.5B · $36M annualized revenue (mid-September 2026)
$90M
$60M

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Mistral Large 4 🧠, OpenAI Decisions API ❓, Nano Banana 2.1 🍌. TLDR AI 10/07
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Mistral Large 4 🧠, OpenAI Decisions API ❓, Nano Banana 2.1 🍌
Claude sets up shop in Google Docs, Sheets, & Slides
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OpenAI's math avalanche continues
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OpenAI's math breakthroughs continue, with 700+ papers claiming to solve open problems. Plus: learn how to compare software websites with GPT-6 Astra in…
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Investing in General Medicine
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a16z leads General Medicine’s Series B
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A breakout moment for AI medicine
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Your next prescription might come from a selfie. Utah just gave Nolla Health’s AI a first-in-the-U.S. green light to diagnose acne and prescribe treatment,…
Point-Counterpoint: Consumers Will Never Pay for AI
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 27 min
Nearly 98% of US households don’t pay for an AI subscription. Is that a massive untapped market or a sign that Silicon Valley is building for itself? NLW explores both sides of the
Ep 94: Applied Compute CEO on the Limits of RL, the New AI Hyperscaler & Why Post-Training Wins Inference
PodcastUnsupervised Learning · 58 min
Yash Patil, a former OpenAI researcher who worked on Codex and now runs Applied Compute, argues that post-training is the most overlooked part of the AI stack and the key to owning

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