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Issue 15

29storiesOrdered by how widely each broke across the AI world — strongest signals first.
01

Model Releases

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5

Sourceanthropic.com↗

Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5, its smallest and cheapest model, with adjustable reasoning effort and adaptive thinking enabled by default. It costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts up to 100K tokens.

02

Launches

Claude adds Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides integration

Sourceclaude.com↗

Claude is available in beta through a Google Workspace Marketplace add-on and connectors, enabling document editing, spreadsheet formulas and analysis, and slide creation while preserving existing Google sharing permissions.

03

Industry & Business News

Anthropic expands its Claude startup program

Sourceclaude.com↗

Anthropic expanded its Claude startup program, with applicants reportedly receiving acceptance decisions within minutes.

04

Research & Papers

OpenAI releases 722 papers from an internal math model

Sourceopenai.com↗

OpenAI released 722 mathematics papers organized into 372 result families, claiming they solve or advance major open problems. The release includes a claimed proof of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis and 162 papers with results formalized in Lean.

05

Policy, Safety & Ethics

OpenAI enables text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex in the EU

Sourceopenai.com↗

OpenAI enabled text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex in the EU using its textGrain technique, which embeds an invisible statistical signal in word choice. API watermarking is available globally as an opt-in, and approved researchers can apply for detector access.

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