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According to The Verge AI, Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2

According to The Verge AI, Anthropic announced Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 today, saying both models improve coding, reasoning, and vision and generate outputs faster than the 5.1 versions. Anthropic says Fable 5.2 is suited to difficult software engineering tasks, including coordinating agent teams and handling long-running projects. In prerelease testing, the models helped with otherwise infeasible software migrations and solved two open black hole physics problems. Claude Fable 5.2 launches today, while Claude Mythos 5.2 starts with access limited to vetted organizations.

TechCrunch reports Meta releases Muse Ember, its lightest and cheapest AI model yet

According to TechCrunch, Meta Superintelligence Lab has released Muse Ember, a new model it describes as its lightest and most cost-efficient yet. Meta says Ember is built for complex reasoning and repetitive agent work such as tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction, and long document parsing. It is priced at 10 cents per million input tokens and is meant to pair with the larger Muse Wonder for high-volume use cases across text, images, and audio.

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Ars Technica AI says Claude Code settings files may expose secrets on GitHub

According to Ars Technica AI, Apiiro researchers found that Claude Code settings files can leak into public GitHub repositories and expose thousands of secrets. The exposed data reportedly includes database passwords, API tokens and root logins. The issue stems from how Claude Code stores user approval for automated shell commands in a local .claude/settings.local.json file. Anthropic says that file is usually added to a developer’s global .gitignore, but mishandling can still leave it public.

According to TechCrunch, Medium launches TK to bring AI into drafting

According to TechCrunch, Medium launched TK on Monday, a new app designed to bring AI deeper into the writing process. Inside the editor, users can type “@TK” to ask for help, get editorial or headline feedback, look up quick facts, and pull in notes or drafts they saved earlier. Medium says TK also supports connections through its MCP server or Claude skill. The app is available on the web now, free for people with a Medium account, with a desktop version planned.

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According to Business Insider, Coframe raises $25 million Series A to personalize web pages with AI

According to Business Insider, AI startup Coframe has raised a $25 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures and Hanabi Capital, bringing total funding to $35 million. The company wants to use AI to generate tailored web pages for each visitor and build what it calls a “living internet.” Coframe was founded by AI researcher and entrepreneur Josh Payne in 2023, and Vinod Khosla said AI is finally making the long-discussed idea practical.

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TechCrunch reports Automattic launches Spacefast for vibe-coded apps

According to TechCrunch, WordPress.com owner Automattic has launched Spacefast, a service for deploying vibe-coded websites and apps. Spacefast supplies backend infrastructure including databases, authentication, file uploads, email and analytics, helping generated projects work more like real sites or services. Users can connect agents and chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor, or start from a Git repository. Automattic said the product was soft-launched in September to gather feedback before today's wider debut.

Tesla expands Robotaxi service to San Antonio, IT之家 reports

According to IT之家, Tesla’s Robotaxi service has expanded to San Antonio, Texas, and began operating at 5 a.m. local time Monday. Tesla’s official Robotaxi account announced the launch on X just after midnight, marking the second straight week of new city rollouts. The company says San Antonio’s service area covers about 275 square miles, which makes it the largest Robotaxi operating zone so far. Tesla had already launched unattended Robotaxi service in Fort Worth on November 2.

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According to Bloomberg, Google adds two new TPU variants for AI workloads

According to Bloomberg, Alphabet’s Google is rolling out a broader array of AI chips as it seeks to gain ground in a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars and dominated by Nvidia. The company is introducing two new tensor processing unit variants, custom semiconductors used to develop and run AI software. Google said the chips are meant to support confidential computing, help models access a wider range of information when handling queries, and serve an industry shifting toward AI agents while facing security challenges.

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According to The Verge AI, Meta expands Instagram age-estimation checks for teens

According to The Verge AI, Meta is expanding the AI age-estimation system it uses on Instagram to find teens who did not correctly disclose their age, and the rollout will automatically place millions more users into Teen Account protections. The system looks at signals such as who they interact with, birthday messages, and visual cues in uploaded photos and videos, and Meta has also started using Apple’s age-range signal in Australia. U.S. parents will begin receiving an in-app notice next month explaining the process.

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IT之家 reports ByteDance Seed releases Seedream 5.5 with stronger editing and text rendering

According to IT之家, ByteDance’s Seed team has released Seedream 5.5, a new image creation model that improves multi-round editing, native RGBA transparent asset generation and text rendering. The model can support up to 100 rounds of iterative edits on the same work while keeping non-edited areas pixel-level consistent, and it cuts severe text corruption to 0.4%. It is now rolling out across Jimeng, Doubao, Doubao Work and Volcano Ark, while the API keeps its two-part pricing for input and output images, with a 2K square edit costing about 0.28 yuan.