DeepSeek previews powerful new V4 model, Claude secures major investments and election safeguards.

DeepSeek launched a powerful new AI model preview, while Claude's parent company secured major investments and enhanced election safeguards.

DeepSeek

1 update

Expanded summary · DeepSeek

You can now try out preview versions of DeepSeek's newest large language model, DeepSeek V4.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘super app’ Lucas Ropek Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4, a much-awaited update to last year’s V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that took the AI world by storm. The new Pro model is the biggest open-weight model available, making it very powerful.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘super app’ Lucas Ropek

Original reportingDeepSeek previews new AI model that 'closes the gap' with frontier modelsRead original ↗

Claude

3 updates

Expanded summary · Claude

Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, Claude's maker, to support its AI development.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘super app’ Lucas Ropek Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic and support the AI firm’s growing computing needs, Bloomberg reports.

The Alphabet subsidiary is committing to invest $10 billion now, at a $350 billion valuation for Anthropic, with a…

Original reportingGoogle to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and computeRead original ↗

Expanded summary · Claude

Anthropic also expanded its partnership with Amazon, securing a huge amount of computing power for future Claude models.

We have signed a new agreement with Amazon that will deepen our existing partnership and secure up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of capacity for training and deploying Claude, including new Trainium2 capacity coming online in the first half of this… We have worked closely with Amazon since 2023 and over 100,000 customers now run Claude on Amazon Bedrock.

Together we launched Project Rainier, one of the largest compute clust…

Together we launched Project Rainier, one of the largest compute clusters in the world, and we currently use over one million Traini…

Original reportingAnthropic and Amazon expand collaboration for up to 5 gigawatts of new computeRead original ↗

Expanded summary · Claude

Claude now has better safeguards to ensure it handles election-related questions fairly and prevents it from running influence campaigns.

Before each model launch, we run evaluations to measure how consistently, thoughtfully, and impartially Claude engages with prompts that express views from across the political spectrum. For example, a model that writes a lengthy response…

Ahead of launching Mythos Preview and Opus 4.7, we tested for the first time whether models can carry out influence operations autonomously—planning and running a multi-step ca…

Ahead of launching Mythos Preview and Opus 4.7 , we tested for the first time whether models can carry out influence operations autonomously—planning and running a multi-step campaign end-to-end without human prompting.

Original reportingAn update on our election safeguardsRead original ↗