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Nov 10, 2026
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.2 With 20% Price Cut Ahead of IPO
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 on Monday, claiming the top spot on 13 of 15 benchmark score lines against GPT-6 Astra and Gemini 4 Carbon. The new models are 30% faster and 20% cheaper than their predecessors, priced at $8 per million input tokens — undercutting OpenAI's flagship. The launch comes days before Anthropic's blockbuster IPO and marks its first frontier release since CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in AI development.
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Nov 9, 2026
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic Back Unified AI Training Opt-Out in Robots.txt
The four largest Western AI labs will honor a single robots.txt policy token that lets website owners opt out of AI training across all their crawlers at once. Anthropic has already begun implementation; OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft follow in 2027.
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Nov 8, 2026
Elvis Estate and Eminem Publisher Sue Suno in Escalating AI Music Copyright War
The rights holders for Elvis Presley and Eminem's publisher Eight Mile Style filed separate federal lawsuits against AI music generator Suno on Friday, alleging copyright infringement and violations of Tennessee's ELVIS Act. The twin filings mark one of the first major tests of the 2024 voice-cloning law and escalate an already intense legal battle between the music industry and AI companies.
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