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Trump & Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei just held their first private White House dinner after months of clashes over AI safety, and how fast America should race China.
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AI INSIGHTS
Claude Sonnet 5.5 appears to be getting close, but most details circulating right now are still unverified leaks. What we know:
A
claude-sonnet-5-5identifier has reportedly appeared in production-related files.Testers claim Anthropic is already running grey tests through Claude Code.
Some reports say it performs ahead of GPT-6 Sol and lands much closer to Opus 5.5 than previous Sonnet models.
Rumored pricing sits around $2/M input and $10/M output tokens, although these numbers overlap with existing Sonnet pricing and do not confirm anything new.
Leaks also claim a large context window and up to 128K output tokens.
Anthropic officially launched Opus 5.5 on September 22 and confirmed that Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are coming, but has not announced Sonnet 5.5’s launch date or specs yet.
If the leaks hold, Sonnet 5.5 could bring near-Opus-level capability at a much lower cost, making Anthropic’s mid-tier model far more competitive. But the strongest performance claims still need official confirmation.
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ALL YOU NEED TO WIN WITH AI
1. Claude Opus 5.5 Changes A LOT at Each Effort Level. I Tested All of Them on One App. Higher effort sounds better, but is it actually better? See exactly how Opus 5.5 behaves from lower to higher reasoning effort, including the point where extra effort starts making a real difference.
2. I Made a Full AI Short Film with Claude. Full Workflow with Prompts That Always Work. I used Claude, ChatGPT, and Veo to build an AI short film from start to finish. I’ll break down the exact process, ALL prompts, and setup you can copy for your own AI videos.
3. I Turned GPT-6 Astra Into My Ultimate AI OS. Here’s How to Build Your Own AI Second Brain. I connected it with Codex, gave it persistent business context, rules, memory, and reusable workflows, then turned the whole setup into an AI Second Brain that actually knows how I work.
4. FREE Guide: 7 Real Automated Jobs ChatGPT Work Can Do For You (Steal These Master-Prompts). I’ll show you 7 practical examples, the exact prompts behind them, and what each one can actually handle so you can see where ChatGPT Work fits into your own work.
YOUR BUYERS NOW ASK AI WHO TO HIRE
You can have years of experience, great results, and loyal clients, and still… disappear when a potential buyer asks AI:
“Who’s the best person to hire for this [your category]?”
Being visible online doesn’t automatically mean you’re findable by AI.
This week, we’re teaming up with Lou Bortone - AI Video Marketing Strategist - for a practical live session on how to make your expertise easier for AI to understand, verify, and recommend.
You’ll learn:
🔎 Why AI may overlook you even when you already have a strong online presence
🧩 Signals that help AI understand your expertise - who you help, what you do, and why you’re credible
🎥 How positioning, proof, authority, and video work together to help you get found, trusted, and chosen
Plus, Lou will walk through a real example and show 3 practical improvements you can start making immediately.
📅 Wednesday, September 30
⏰ 10:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM PT
🔴 Free to join
P/S: Join us live on Zoom and we’ll send you the webinar notes, prompts, and resources after the session.
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AI HIGHLIGHTS
💸 Building Grok Bots could now actually pay. One creator reportedly made $500 in two weeks from a single one template. Rewards depend on real usage. More infor.
👀 OpenAI is teasing an “o” always-on agent ahead of DevDay 2026. It starts in ~32 hours, the livestream begins on Tuesday, September 29 at 10 AM PDT. Get notified.
🍽️ Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set for his first one-on-one dinner with President Trump at the White House, following months of tension over AI safety and policy.
⚠️ GPT-6 Luna just scored 100% on a “Puppy Kill” benchmark testing whether an AI would execute a harmful tool command. This is one result worth reading carefully.
⚙️ Microsoft wants always-on Copilot to keep working after you stop talking to it. That means you can assign a job once, leave & come back later to actual progress.
🔒 Washington asked OpenAI & Anthropic to let U.S. officials review new frontier AI before they reach U.K. safety testers. All just became another U.S.-U.K. tension point.
💰 Big AI Deal: Anthropic signed a $11.6B, 7-year cloud deal with Akamai, with room to expand to $20B. Akamai could also give Anthropic warrants worth up to 5% of its stock.
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🤖 Cuey compares answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and 30+ AI models in one tab, without switching between apps.
✍️ Superhuman Go works inside Gmail, Slack, and your browser to automate workflows with AI agents. Free to start.
AI BREAKTHROUGH
SemiAnalysis mapped 1,000+ data centers across 60+ operators in China, estimating more than 24 GW of delivered capacity. Main findings:
China now has a larger data-center footprint than EMEA or the rest of Asia outside China.
ByteDance alone occupies roughly one-fifth of China’s delivered capacity, while renting nearly all of it.
Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu doubled combined capex YoY to $20B in Q2 2026.
ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu are on track for roughly $100B in combined 2026 capex.
China can reportedly deliver 100 MW facilities in under 12 months, helped by modular construction, cheaper power, and fewer permitting bottlenecks.
China’s “Eastern Data, Western Compute” policy is pushing new AI infrastructure toward regions with cheaper energy and more available power.
One important nuance: China still has high vacancy in older retail data centers, but much of that infrastructure is unsuitable for modern AI workloads. New wholesale AI capacity is filling much faster.
Key takeaway: China’s AI race is increasingly an infrastructure race, and ByteDance has become one of the biggest forces driving that buildout.
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