Gemini 4 Carbon vs Claude Fable 5.2 vs Opus 5.5, Priced at December Rates
Gemini 4 Carbon is generally available at $2/$10 until November 30, then $4/$20, the same as Opus 5.5. Per-task costs, benchmark lanes, latency and the gaps in the GA release, compared with Claude...
Claude Fable 5.2 costs $8/$40 per million tokens, double Opus 5.5. Anthropic's own effort comparisons say it can be cheaper per task, its own table shows where Opus still wins, and blocked requests...
AI Shopping Agents Failed 42.8% of Visa’s Tests. The Worse Number Is How Often They Bought Anyway.
Visa's Agentic Commerce Benchmark put 22 models through 15 shopping scenarios and 42.8% of runs failed. In 54% of those failures the agent still bought something, and only 34.2% of scenarios passed...
Perplexity Teammates Are Sold to Individuals. They Work Inside Your Company’s Slack.
Perplexity Teammates are always-on agents sold on a $200 personal Max plan, inheriting their owner's tools and permissions. The controls that apply are in your Slack, Google Workspace and GitHub...
Anthropic Says It May Soon Cross Its AI-Builds-AI Line. Its Policy Ties the Brake to Rivals.
Anthropic's amended S-1 says it may imminently meet its own policy's AI R&D acceleration threshold, and METR measured about 1.9x from inside. Crossing it guarantees external review; a delay depends...
OpenAI Found 948 Ways to Root Linux. Your Containers Share the Kernel They Target.
OpenAI's pipeline turned 2,308 kernel findings into 948 root exploits at $1,279 each, and says a low-privileged account on an unpatched host now equals root. What that means for CI runners,...
