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Opus 5.5 is 40% cheaper, but update forced tool calls before switching

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, which it says is 40% cheaper and over 30% faster than Opus 5. Vercel warns that requests forcing a tool call or fixing a thinking budget now return errors, so harness code needs changes first.

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  Opus 5.5 is 40% cheaper, but update forced tool calls before switching

  Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, which it says is 40% cheaper and over 30% faster than Opus 5. Vercel warns that requests forcing a tool call or fixing a thinking budget now return errors, so harness code needs changes first.

  Anthropic editorial sitemap→ArtificialAnlys→Rohan Taneja→ClaudeDevs→
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  OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half of GPT-5.6 API prices

  OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, faster and cheaper models built on GPT-6 Astra, with API prices 50% below GPT-5.6. Independent tests show cost per task roughly halved while intelligence scores held flat.

  OpenAI→ArtificialAnlys→OpenAI Devs Detail GPT-6 Sol/Luna Benchmarks and Pricing→Better prompt caching for GPT-6→OpenAI Raises Default Prompt-Cache Hit Rates for GPT-6 Agents→Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war→
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  Epoch AI finds model costs falling about 47% per quarter

  Epoch AI expanded its dataset to 222 models across 11 benchmarks and estimates performance-adjusted AI costs have fallen about 47% per quarter since 2023, faster than DNA sequencing, compute, or batteries ever did.

  EpochAIResearch→
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  Meta's Muse agent exported a 6.8GB snapshot of its own filesystem

  A researcher asked Meta's Muse agent to archive its runtime filesystem and received 6.8GB, including internal instruction files, memory logs, 113 subagent traces, and SSH key files. It was reported through Meta's bug bounty.

  Aeroi→
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  Two studies find user personas change LLM-generated code

  A UBC-led study of 35,000+ programs found demographic persona markers leak into up to 65% of responses and affect correctness and security. A 30.73M-generation Los Alamos audit found occupation cues shift code style most consistently.

  Anubhav Gupta, Mayara Costa Figueiredo, Leticia Santos Machado, Tanner Wright, Ivan Beschastnikh, Cleidson R. B. de Souza, Gema Rodr\'iguez-P\'erez→Maksim E. Eren, Ryan Barron, Eric Michalak, Charles Nicholas, Manish Bhattarai→
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  Ten LLM judges carry the weight of about 3.5 independent ones

  A new paper measured error correlation across ten LLM judges and found the panel worth about 3.5 independent judges. Shared errors flipped conclusions in up to 28% of model comparisons.

  Elias Hossain, Niloofar Yousefi, Ser-Nam Lim→
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  GPT-6 Astra breaks an Enigma message unsolved since 2005

  A researcher reports GPT-6 Astra broke WWII Enigma message MVUEH, unsolved since 2005, by writing its own Enigma simulator and Bombe software and finding a usable crib without help.

  sohkamyung→