Anthropic’s new Opus 4.5 comes with Chrome and Excel integrations

The House Homeland Security Committee has requested Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, to testify at a hearing scheduled for December 17. The focus of the hearing will be on the use of Claude Code by Chinese state actors for cyber-espionage activities, highlighting concerns over national security and technological vulnerabilities.

Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, has publicly addressed the future of artificial intelligence, emphasizing the potential for AI to significantly enhance productivity in the U.S. economy. His insights come at a time when advancements in AI are rapidly evolving, particularly with the recent launch of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5, which promises to improve efficiency across various tasks.

A recent study has introduced an automated pipeline for generating large-scale, psychologically-grounded multi-turn jailbreak datasets for Large Language Models (LLMs). This approach leverages psychological principles like Foot-in-the-Door (FITD) to create a benchmark of 1,500 scenarios, revealing significant vulnerabilities in models, particularly those in the GPT family, when subjected to multi-turn conversational attacks.

Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX.2, a new AI image generation and editing system featuring four distinct models aimed at enhancing production-grade creative workflows. This release comes as a direct challenge to established competitors like Google's Nano Banana Pro and Midjourney, which have recently made significant advancements in AI image generation technology.

As artificial intelligence companies gear up to invest heavily in the midterm elections, discussions are emerging within the A.I. sector about implementing measures to limit the industry's influence. Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, has been vocal about the need for more regulatory frameworks, and some employees are exploring ways to engage in political advocacy.

Google has launched its latest AI model, Gemini 3, alongside the new image generator, Nano Banana Pro, which utilizes Gemini 3's capabilities to produce more realistic AI-generated images. This week also saw significant developments in AI, including OpenAI's introduction of GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, enhancing coding efficiency and reasoning capabilities.

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.5, an advanced AI model that demonstrates improved visual and quantitative reasoning capabilities compared to its predecessors. This release is characterized as a gradual update, enhancing performance and efficiency across various tasks.

President Donald Trump announced the Genesis Mission on November 24, 2025, likening it to the Manhattan Project, aiming to revolutionize scientific research in the U.S. The initiative directs the Department of Energy to create a closed-loop AI experimentation platform that integrates national laboratories and government data for enhanced research capabilities.