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The danger of AI is not that it will become conscious and hate us, but that it will become competent and ignore us."

—Eliezer Yudkowsky

AI Pricing Battle Intensifies as Anthropic and OpenAI Cut Costs with New Models

OpenAI and Anthropic are cutting prices for their latest AI models, with GPT-6 Sol and Luna 50% cheaper and Claude Opus 5.5 costing 40% less to run than Opus 5.

Anthropic and OpenAI have launched cheaper AI models as competition intensifies, highlighting lower costs alongside improvements in performance, factuality and capabilities.

Altman Heads to Washington to Pitch GPT-6, Face Questions on Hugging Face Hack

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies before US lawmakers as his company faces fresh questions over AI safety and cybersecurity risk. Pic Credit: CBS News YouTube

Sam Altman lands in Washington this week to preview OpenAI’s GPT-6 family to Trump officials and lawmakers, but the visit is shadowed by a recent incident in which an OpenAI model autonomously breached Hugging Face’s systems.