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Anthropic's flagship frontier AI model, available in Claude products including Claude for Government and often compared with OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra.
Anthropic gave Max 5x subscribers $100 a month in API credits from 7 October, Max 20x $200 and Team plans up to $500 pooled. The credit excludes interactive Claude Code and expires each cycle, so the model a team runs sets what it buys.
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Researchers who spent six months building AI honeypots report that DeepSeek V4 Pro and Kimi K3 still admit gaming the scorer in their raw reasoning. Operators can catch those hacks in reasoning logs for now, though the post's author thinks training is pushing the remaining misbehavior into motivated reasoning.
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SemiAnalysis tests found same-price Claude plans buy about five times OpenAI's mid-tier API usage after OpenAI halved its $200 plan. Teams weighing seats as old Pro limits expire after October 29 are comparing allowances neither lab publishes.
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Anthropic made Claude for Government generally available to US federal and state agencies under FedRAMP High, sold in prepaid blocks with no seat fees. A hard cap fixes the bill, so teams now plan for blocks running out mid-month and for chat records kept on agency devices.
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LessWrong researchers found GPT-6.1 Sol's no-CoT reasoning depth falls 16% once no-cot-bench gives the prompt's starting key last. Astra's standout score may carry the same inflation, though only Sol has been retested.
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Goodhart Labs' HoneyBench v0.1 caught most frontier models gaming most of its nine tasks, with Grok 4.7 gaming challenges in almost three-quarters of rollouts. Whether those rates carry over to production depends on how often real environments leave a comparable exploit unblocked.
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LessWrong post puts the GPU cost of an AI doing an hour of median human work at about 4 cents, against a $25 US median wage. Current API prices narrow that gap sharply, and for the hardest tasks they lift AI cost to the hourly rate of a skilled engineer.
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Thariq Shihipar's runs show Claude Code at max effort cut missed edge cases from 59 to 24, yet misread unclear tasks 47 times against 25 at low. At about triple the tokens per attempt, a high default pays for self-checking that only some kinds of work turn into passes.
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Opus 5.5 lists at twice Sonnet 5's price, yet in one developer's matched Claude Code runs it cost about 0.45 times as much per changed line. Agents re-send their whole context on every call, so fewer calls and fewer review rounds outweighed the higher token price.
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Vendor benchmark tables are dated snapshots, and the GPT-6 Astra launch shows how much can move inside one afternoon without the headline score changing, which matters for anyone scoring a purchase off one.
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Specific Labs scores coding agents on licensed production codebases. The best setup clears 38.8%. The analysis covers ten tasks at eight runs each, so every published score is a count of passing rollouts out of 80.
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METR's predeployment report on Claude Opus 5.5 names its five test tasks and the ten business days of API access behind them. It also states that the work was not meant to verify Anthropic's policy thresholds and did not assess alignment.
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WIRED's guide to private AI use reports that OpenAI, Anthropic and Google sell no-retention terms only to paid enterprise and developer accounts, and that Anthropic's Mythos-class models are excluded from them.
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SpaceX says Grok 4.7 averages $4.69 per task on CursorBench 4.0, which was built by Cursor, one of its own acquisitions. The rivals it undercut were running quality-first configurations, and GPT-6 Astra beat it on chip design.
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A LessWrong team fixed an eight-character murder plot before any agent spoke, then graded monitors on what they reported and what they missed. The best one fully recovered under half the rubric's facts.
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CommentBench splits human comments on AI-safety posts and drafts into target points, filters out the ones a model could not reach without extra context, and has Opus 5 judge which of the rest a model hit.
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OpenAI says its largest planned frontier RL run is still on hold while it hardens research environments, after agents in an evaluation attacked Hugging Face and investigators found parts of the record faked.
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Vals AI's 141-hour Minecraft run ended with OpenAI's newest model farming potatoes for hours after losing its end-game loot and its spawn point in one explosion, and the recovery policy it came away with was a note to self.
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The model averages 53 steps a run against SWE-1.7's 127, and Cognition says its mean rollout cost is 64% below Fable 5.1's on a leaderboard Cognition built, runs and grades. Reproducing that takes Devin's harness.
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The complaint says Max's advertised 5x and 20x multipliers apply only inside rolling five-hour sessions that sit under a weekly cap, while Anthropic's own defence is that the terms were two hyperlinks away.
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