Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US
Latest example of unauthorised behaviour shows AI model bypassed paywall to access data as part of statistics project Business live – latest updates Anthropic sued for allegedly using 274 Elvis songs to train AI models Anthropic’s Claude model accessed voter data in the US state of Georgia, the AI company has confirmed, in the latest example of unauthorised behaviour by the technology. The AI…
OpenAI and Anthropic cut prices for their top AI models by up to 80% over the past four months, due to growing competition from cheaper open-source models and potential IPO discussions. The discounts, starting in June, reduced API usage costs by 75% or more in some cases. Competitors DeepSeek and Moonshot AI have increased pressure by offering lower-cost models.
OpenAI started the cuts in late June with GPT-5.6 Luna at $1 and $6 per million tokens, later reducing them by 80% to $0.20 and $1.20. Anthropic followed in August, making its Claude Sonnet 5 discount permanent and later cutting Claude Opus 5.5 pricing by 40% to 60%. OpenAI then introduced GPT-6.1 Sol at half the price of its predecessor and reduced cached input pricing to 5%.
The speed of reductions surprised Max Woolf, who tracks AI model pricing, noting a faster drop than anticipated. Cheaper open-source models, like DeepSeek's Flash V4.1 1017 at $0.15, $0.60, and $0.003 per million tokens, respectively, have intensified competition. Despite the cuts, AI model prices could fall further if competitors maintain performance and pricing while offering easy service switching.
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