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Claude vs Copilot 2026: $20 vs $12.99 Price Gap

Anthropic and Microsoft are fighting over the same desk. One company wants to be the model you reason with. The other wants to be the assistant already living inside Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams. As of October 10, 2026, that fight has a name: Claude vs Copilot, a search term that now pulls roughly 1,900…

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Japan Hits 600 AI-Fueled Cyberattacks, Tops 2025 [2026]

Japan’s cybersecurity agencies have a number that tells the story on its own: 600. That is how many unauthorized-access incidents Japanese companies and local governments had disclosed publicly between January and the end of September 2026, according to security firm Trend Micro. It already beats the 593 cases logged across the entirety of 2025, with…

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‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop

“Staggering.” “Overwhelming.” “Unprecedented.” “Surreal.” “Pure insanity.” Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the…

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Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide

An Anthropic AI model provided false information about an unsolved homicide to a Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tipline, according to a report from 6abc. In a statement released on Friday, the PPD said the AI model sent the tip through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com on July 18th, but the investigators never reviewed it because it was marked as…

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