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Anthropic pushes Sonnet 5.5 as a faster, cheaper AI work partner

Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic’s faster, cheaper AI model for coding and office work, with stronger cyber safeguards and better agent performance.

TechCrunch added five more judges to Startup Battlefield ahead of Disrupt 2026, where 200 startups will compete for a $100,000 prize.

Nvidia’s AI safety platform aims to quarantine rogue agents in milliseconds, adding hardware-backed controls as agent risks surge.

Nvidia is releasing open-source AI security tools to sandbox rogue agents, monitor behavior, and help companies contain autonomous software.

Cloudflare says AI bots are overtaking human web traffic and pushing the internet toward new payment models for content.

Crusoe ended its $1.25B Boom turbine plan, reshaping AI data center power strategy and dealing a setback to Boom’s launch business.

Cargo theft struck PlusAI trailers marked for Nvidia, but thieves found 20 tons of sand instead. The case highlights rising tech freight crime.

Anthropic’s AI infrastructure deal with Akamai is worth $11.6 billion over seven years and could expand to $20 billion.

Nscale raised $3.36B in convertible financing before its U.S. IPO, underscoring the huge cost of AI infrastructure buildouts.

Meta’s AI agent Muse is drawing attention from OpenAI and Anthropic, with smart glasses and new devices at the center of the strategy.