Opus 4.7 gets 2.5x faster
Welcome back! Anthropic announced that Opus 4.7 is going to be the default for fast mode, which costs higher than the standard rate per token, so leaving the toggle on will run up your extra-usage bill fast. We have another Musk vs. Altman update, with new testimony that could change the trajectory of the case. Google is launching a new laptop this fall with a new AI gimmick and Meta is losing the support of its employees over the mouse-tracking software it installed last month.
In today's Generative AI Newsletter:
Speed economy: Why is Anthropic putting a premium on the same Opus running faster?
OpenAI trial: What changes when Altman tells a jury Musk wanted 90 percent?
Google's laptop bet: What did Google build into the cursor itself?
Meta revolt: Who owns the data Meta is using to train its next model?
Anthropic announced Opus 4.7 is going to be the default for Fast Mode on its API and in Claude Code, running the model at 2.5x its standard speed. The feature is in research preview and switches on with /fast inside Claude Code.
The details:
Pricing: $30 per million input tokens and $150 per million output tokens, flat across the 1M context window.
Quality: Fast Mode uses the same Opus weights and capabilities with a different API configuration that prioritizes speed over cost efficiency.
Partners: Fast Mode for Opus 4.7 is also live in Cursor, Emergent, Factory, v0, Warp and Windsurf.
Nothing new here, Anthropic is treating speed as a product line. It’s the same model… but faster and with a higher price per token. The Thursday default switch means anyone running /fast is about to see their Opus get smarter and WAY more expensive in the same instant.
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Sam Altman took the witness stand on Tuesday and pushed back against Elon Musk's allegation that he betrayed OpenAI's nonprofit mission. Altman testified that Musk himself had asked for a 90 percent equity stake in the early days of the company and pressed for majority control throughout.
The details:
The number: "An early number that Mr Musk threw out was that he should have 90 percent of the equity to start. It then softened, but it always was a majority."
The succession question: Asked what would happen to OpenAI after his death, Musk said he might pass it to his children. Altman called that a "hair-raising moment."
Damages: Musk is seeking $150 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft, payable to an OpenAI nonprofit. He also wants Altman and Brockman removed and the company reverted to nonprofit status.
Cross-examination: Musk's lawyer Steven Molo cited a former board member's claim of a "toxic culture of lying" and pressed Altman on whether he had misled people in business. Altman denied it.
Musk's case has always rested on the framing that he was duped into funding a charity that turned for-profit and Altman's 90 percent line cuts through that framing in front of a jury.
OpenAI is preparing for a possible IPO that could value it at a trillion dollars, and the trial now sits on the path between today and that public offering.
Google announced Googlebook today, a new laptop line running a hybrid of Android and ChromeOS with Gemini built into the operating system.
The marketing centerpiece is Magic Pointer, a cursor that summons Gemini when you wiggle it.
Point at a date inside an email and Gemini offers to schedule the meeting.
Hover a couch image while a photo of your living room is open and Gemini composites the two.
The deeper move is what Google is not saying out loud. Googlebook runs on the Android tech stack with ChromeOS folded inside, and that is Google admitting ChromeOS as a separate operating system is closing out.
The Chromebook era of cheap web boxes for schools is over, and the same OEM roster that built those Chromebooks for a decade is now being asked to ship premium hardware that competes with Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs and Apple Intelligence Macs.
Magic Pointer is the feature that justifies the rebrand. But it makes you wonder. Couldn't this have been a software update that works across any laptop? Let's keep an eye on what reviewers like Mrwhosetheboss and Marques Brownlee say when it drops this fall.
Meta employees distributed flyers across multiple US offices on Tuesday in protest of the mouse-tracking and keystroke-logging software the company installed on employee machines last month.
The flyers appeared in meeting rooms, on vending machines and on top of toilet paper dispensers, pointing colleagues to an online petition. The protest lands about a week before Meta begins planned layoffs of 10 percent of its workforce.
Meta is framing the data collection as AI training material, and that framing is what makes the story matter.
The company is harvesting employee work, cursor movements, keystrokes and behavioral patterns, to train models that will eventually do the jobs of the people generating the data. Then it is laying off 10 percent of them.
The AFL-CIO poll in Light Bytes below describes how American workers feel about this scenario, and Meta has just handed them a textbook example. Watch the phrase "AI training data." It is the corporate language that turns workplace surveillance into a model alignment exercise.
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OpenAI and Microsoft cap revenue-share at $38B: The two companies have agreed to cap revenue-sharing payments at $38 billion, freeing OpenAI to deepen ties with Amazon and Google ahead of a possible IPO.
AI guardrails on the Trump-Xi summit agenda: Washington and Beijing both name AI-enabled bioweapons and infrastructure attacks as shared concerns ahead of this week's Beijing summit.
95% of US workers want a human in the loop: A new AFL-CIO poll shows 95 percent of workers favor job and privacy protections from artificial intelligence.
Demi Moore tells Cannes the film industry cannot win against AI: The actor and jury member said fighting AI is a battle the industry will lose.
