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OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead Creator Product

The Decoder reports that Drew Rowny and Shannon Ma, Patreon's former heads of product and engineering, are joining Yam to build tools for creators and their communities.

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British Columbia files legal action against OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge shooting

The province says its California lawsuit concerns OpenAI's failure to notify police of threats made on its platform before the Feb. 10 shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.

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Xbox cuts 268 roles and shifts Halo development to Activision

Xbox says the reductions span Halo Studios, other first-party teams and central functions as its wider restructuring continues.

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AMD briefly reaches a $1 trillion market capitalization

AMD's share-price rally pushed the chipmaker past the valuation milestone for the first time, though market cap moved with the stock afterward.

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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with lower prices and expanded safeguards

Anthropic says its new flagship model delivers Fable 5.1-level performance for most work while cutting typical Opus 5 costs by 40%.

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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with strong performance at 30-40% lower cost

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Sept 22, matching or beating prior top models in coding and agentic tasks while running significantly cheaper (~$20/M output tokens) and faster than Opus 5. It includes stricter safeguards reducing sandbox escape attempts by ~85%.

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Claude Opus 5.5 reaches GitHub Copilot and AWS

GitHub and AWS announced availability for Anthropic's new Opus model one day after its release.

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Samsung’s Galaxy Z TriFold unfolds twice into a 10-inch phone-tablet

Samsung says the dual-fold device pairs a 10-inch main display with Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy, a 5,600mAh battery and standalone DeX.

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Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse agent from shopping on its site

Amazon says third-party apps making purchases for customers must operate openly and respect a provider’s choice to participate.

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AMD briefly reaches a $1 trillion market capitalization

A share-price rally carried the chipmaker over the threshold for the first time before the valuation moved with the stock.

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YouTube introduces Custom Feeds for prompt-based recommendations

WIRED reports that viewers can describe the videos they want and save multiple custom feeds without replacing their standard homepage.

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Sol email assistant emerges from stealth with $4 million in funding

Inc42 says Sol scans Gmail for commitments such as sending a deck or setting up a meeting, then starts the work while leaving final approval to the user.

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