Both China and the West are looking to their banks — and not Big Tech — to win the race for the future of global money, writes @andymukherjee70 (via @opinion)
Both presidents harked back at the summit to when their countries fought side by side against Japan, generating unease in Tokyo. Read more:
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Bottles thrown everywhere, swearing constantly.
Not 1 of these parasites even got charged.
Englishman, Del Somerville, got 2 years this week.
Don't tell me two-tier policing and judiciary doesn't exist.
Both frontier labs cut prices on the same day.
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 at $4 input and $20 output per million tokens, 40% cheaper to run than Opus 5 while matching Fable 5.1 on most tasks.
Roughly an hour later OpenAI answered with GPT-6 Sol at $2 and $10 and Luna at $0.10 and $0.50, at least half off GPT-5.6 promo rates. The contest has moved to cost per completed task rather than benchmark crowns, and Anthropic itself says benchmark margins are a less reliable guide to real world differences.
Cache reads tell the story: both landed at $0.20 per million, 60 to 90% below prior rates, since Anthropic says cache reads are most of the agentic coding bill.