Opus 5.5 cuts costs while Meta and US–China talks widen AI's reach
Original titleThe Sequence Radar - Issue 940: Last Week in AI: Opus 5.5 Gets Leaner, Meta Goes Wearable, Washington Talks to Beijing, and Claude Explores DNA
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 at about 40% lower cost than Opus 5, priced at $4/$20 per MTok input/output.
Meta said Muse is coming to its AI glasses in the coming months, while Washington and Beijing held their first AI dialogue and discussed an incident-notification channel.
The newsletter argues that costs, interfaces, experiments, and diplomacy increasingly determine how much value AI creates.
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