Claude Proactive Agent Released and GPU Rental Prices Rise

Anthropic launches the proactive Claude Duet agent, while rising GPU rental prices spark discussions on computing costs and enterprise returns.

The essentials

Anthropic Releases Claude Duet Proactive Agent

Anthropic has introduced Claude Duet, a proactive personal AI agent powered by Opus 5.5, available in a research preview for Pro and Max subscribers in the US. The company states it features proactive morning briefings and other capabilities.

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GPU Rental Prices Rise and Warning Issued Over Stranded Compute in Partially Built Data Centers

According to an a16z chart, rental prices for GPUs such as H200 and B200 have not declined according to depreciation, recording significant increases year-to-date. Musk predicts that partially built data centers will experience a massive amount of stranded compute and warns that cloud providers will face a shakeout.

Grok Bot Adds Automated Calling and Summary Features

Musk announced that Grok Bot now supports calling businesses on behalf of users, making requests, and hanging up while waiting, and sends a conversation summary after the call ends, delivering a more hands-on agent interaction experience.

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In brief

Dispute Over Enterprise Returns

Apollo's chief economist warned that AI returns are currently zero in the corporate world outside of big tech companies.

Math Community Boycotts AI Papers

More than 1,000 mathematicians have formed an association, pledging not to publish AI-generated mathematics papers and lecture notes.

Moonshot Quota Reset

Moonshot apologized for the mistaken deduction of K3.1 Pro quotas and uniformly reset usage for subscription plans.

FLUX 3 Tops Open-Source Leaderboard

Black Forest Labs stated that FLUX 3 has topped the open-source text-to-image leaderboard.

Sweden Restricts Tools on Official Computers

The Swedish government has banned civil servants from using ChatGPT and Claude, approving only Copilot.