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Anthropic says Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 "on most tasks" while costing about 40% less to run than Opus 5; Opus 5.5 costs $4/1M input and $20/1M output tokens (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/claude-opus-5-

Claude Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 performance at lower cost and promises less "Claudish" writing
Anthropic is launching Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in a new generation. The company says it matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks while costing about 40 percent less to run than Opus 5. Anthropic's benchmarks also put it ahead of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on most tasks, despite being significantly cheaper. Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are expected in the coming weeks.

Source: Clarissa Ward signed just a one-year CNN extension, not a long-term contract, amid friction with executives and concerns over Bari Weiss taking control (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/clarissa-ward-cnn-contract-paramount-bari-weiss…

Clarissa Ward’s CNN Crossroads
The star foreign correspondent could not reach a long-term deal with CNN earlier this year amid friction with executives and concerns over Bari Weiss potentially taking editorial control of the network, Status has learned.

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/innovation/openai-gpt-6-sol-luna-release/

OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol doubles its accuracy rate - for half the cost - ZDNET
GPT-6 Sol and Luna arrive less than three months after GPT-5.6, with OpenAI claiming major accuracy gains, dramatic cost reductions, and oddly revealing Claude comparisons across key benchmarks.

German publisher C.H.BECK takes a majority stake in Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents and raised a $100M Series C (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/09/23/noxtua-raises-more-th…

Noxtua raises more than €100M as C.H.BECK takes majority stake German legaltech
Noxtua has closed its Series C funding round totaling more than €100 million. Founded in Berlin in 2017 and spun out of research at Oxford University and Imperial College London, the scale-up launched its first version in 2024. Since then, the legal AI company has grown continously and now has more than 30,000 users, around 100 employees, and six locations across Europe (Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Zagreb, Munich, and Freiburg). Its tech covers the entire legal-writing workflow, including rese…

UK PM Andy Burnham keeping Lisa Nandy on as culture secretary renews pressure over potential streaming license fees and puts the WBD deal back in the spotlight (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/lisa-nandy-big-decisions-…

Analysis: As The New UK Prime Minister Cosies Up To Donald Trump, Lisa Nandy Could Be About To Become The Most Consequential Culture Secretary In America In Recent Memory
As Andy Burnham befriends Donald Trump, UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has big calls to make on Paramount, the streamer licence fee and big tech.

A specialist UK tribunal awards BBC correspondent Vincent Kearney £20K in damages after MI5 and police admitted to illegally obtaining Kearney's call records (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/m

MI5 and police illegally grabbed journalist's call records to find sources
Former BBC Northern Ireland journalist paid £20,000 in damages by MI5 and PSNI.

Patreon co-founder Sam Yam says he is joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product, alongside Patreon's Head of Product Drew Rowny and Head of Engineering Shannon Ma (Sam Yam/@samyamiam)
https://x.com/samyamiam/status/2102503574492332141

Sam Yam 🎶 (@samyamiam) on X
1/ I'm joining @OpenAI to lead Creator Product after over 13 years since starting @Patreon. Coming with me are my favorite crew Drew Rowny and Shannon Ma, Patreon's (now former) Head of Product and Head of Engineering. We're going to build together with Creators at OpenAI and share early access to …

California's Rob Bonta and a 13-state group challenge the appointment of current and recent Nexstar personnel to Tegna's board, after a preliminary injunction (State of California)
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases

Attorney General Bonta to Court: Nexstar/Tegna Violating Court Order to Stop Merging
Files motion for clarification and other compliance relief SACRAMENTO — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, as part of a bipartisan coalition of 13 attorneys general, filed a motion for clarification in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, raising concerns about actions by Tegna Inc. (Tegna) and Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nexstar) that are in apparent violation of the court’s hold-separate order.

Night-owned podcast network The Roost rebrands as Podium, signs Trisha Paytas, and says it reaches 50M monthly video and audio impressions (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/roost-podcast-network-podium-trisha-paytas-just-tri…

The Roost Podcast Network Relaunches As Podium & Signs Trisha Paytas Show ‘Just Trish’
The Roost Podcast Network has rebranded as Podium and signed Trisha Paytas and her show 'Just Trish'.

Q&A with Semafor Media Editor Max Tani about his beat, expanding Semafor's programming lineup with new video shows, trends in independent media, and more (Meredith Klein/Meredith & The Media)
https://meredithandthemedia.substack.com/p/an-interview-max-tan…

An Interview: Max Tani, Semafor
This week, I sat down with Max Tani, media editor at Semafor.