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All news →Anthropic ships Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens, a 90% cut from Haiku 4.5 on short prompts
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.
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- Chip interconnect startup Eliyan reportedly fields a takeover bid and seeks $3B, triple its July valuation
- Anthropic rewrites its Claude usage policy, adding a ban on sustained cruelty toward its models
- OpenAI's annualized revenue is reportedly near $50B, not $70B, and chip and cloud stocks fall
- Isomorphic Labs reportedly in early talks to raise money at a $40B to $50B valuation
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