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Claude keeps its price cut, Shopify opens the order flow, an AI agent wipes all data — plus 7 more | BPJ News (Morning Edition)

AI unit costs fell, ordering moved closer to automation, and “how to stop it” design determined the accident bill.

Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 5.5 and pushed the headline metrics on speed and cost forward. At the same time, reports of OpenAI delaying a new model and a real-world AI-agent incident are forcing a harder question: what has to be designed first for safe shop-floor deployment?

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Claude keeps its price cut, Shopify opens the order flow, an AI agent wipes all data — plus 7 more | BPJ News (Morning Edition)

AI news today was dominated by Anthropic’s release of Claude Sonnet 5.5, with speed and cost improvements placed front and center. On the other hand, a new OpenAI model is reportedly facing a possible release delay on safety grounds, casting a shadow over process designs that depend heavily on external vendors. Around that, Shopify surfaced a way to expand what in-browser AI agents are allowed to do, pulling automation closer to the “front door” of operations. In the sup…

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