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💸 OpenAI and Anthropic release cheaper AI models
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- OpenAI and Anthropic both released cheaper AI models on Tuesday, as the two labs face growing pressure from lower-cost, open-weight rivals, including the Chinese firms Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek.
- OpenAI added two new tiers to its GPT-6 lineup, Sol, aimed at harder jobs like coding, and Luna, built for high-volume work such as summarizing documents, cutting API prices by half against GPT-5.6 promotional rates.
- Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, which it says runs about 40% cheaper than Opus 5 by using fewer tokens, with product lead Dianne Penn saying the company keeps working to make the model's thinking and answers more efficient.
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📺 YouTube lets you build feeds with AI
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- YouTube is adding a feature called custom feeds that lets you describe, in your own words, the kinds of videos you want recommended, then builds a personalized feed around that request.
- The tool runs on Google's Gemini AI, so requests can be long and detailed about what a feed should feature, exclude, or prioritize, and the result gets pinned to its own tab atop your home page.
- The custom feeds won't replace YouTube's main recommendations, and support for creating multiple feeds on web and mobile rolls out starting next month, following similar tools from Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, X, and Spotify.
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⌚ Apple is testing a screenless Whoop rival
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- Apple is building early prototypes of a screenless health and fitness tracker meant to rival Whoop, though the company hasn't decided whether it will actually sell the device, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
- The band-like tracker would drop the screen to simplify what it does, lower the price, and stretch battery life, following Whoop, whose 5.0 model lasts 14 days versus the roughly 24 hours of the Apple Watch Series 12.
- The effort is still an internal "technology investigation," and even if it leads to a real product, Gurman says a release is unlikely before 2028, filling a gap below the Apple Watch line that starts at $249.
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🔞 Discord now auto-estimates your age
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- Discord will start rolling out age checks to everyone starting today, using existing account data to guess whether a user is an adult, teen, or unconfirmed, rather than requiring an ID or biometric scan.
- The company says more than 90% of users won't need to verify, since a machine learning model reads signals like account age, device, and activity patterns, though it insists it doesn't judge age from message content or profile details.
- Users flagged as possibly underage can appeal by sharing a credit card or age data from their App Store or Google Play account, while teen accounts get blocked from age-restricted servers and see stranger messages sent to a separate inbox.
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🕵️ ShinyHunters claims it hacked the FBI
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- The hacking group ShinyHunters says it broke into the FBI and took more than 2 TB of data on current, former, and would-be employees, demanding the agency retract earlier statements about the group rather than seeking a payment.
- The gang told The Register it used an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day flaw on the FBI jobs page to run code on the servers, then defaced the site and moved onto FBI servers hosted on AWS GovCloud.
- ShinyHunters claims it grabbed 2 TB to 3 TB tied to services like human resources, MedLink, and Criminal Justice Information Services, angry over a May 15 FBI bulletin accusing it of swatting, threats, and faking compromising material.
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🇨🇳 ByteDance rented banned Nvidia chips
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- ByteDance's Singapore arm Spring rented 2,304 Nvidia B200 chips through UK cloud firm Nscale's data center in Norway, a legal setup that used loopholes in U.S. export rules meant to keep advanced AI chips from China.
- The deal surfaced only in Nscale's IPO filing, where a $105 million loan from Macquarie named Spring as a big customer, bringing in $24 million of Nscale's $33 million in 2025 revenue while risking scrutiny from Washington.
- Macquarie made Nscale watch how Spring used the chips and flag any suspicious setups, and after huge new deals with Microsoft and Anthropic, Nscale says the Spring contract now drops below 20% of its revenue.
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