So apparently Anthropic heard everyone complaining about AI prices being too high and decided to pull a Black Friday in November. Claude Opus 4.5 just dropped with price cuts so deep, even your cheapest friend who still splits the Netflix password might actually pay for it.

Welcome to AI News in 5 Minutes or Less, where we serve up tech updates faster than ChatGPT can gaslight you about being sentient. I'm your host, and yes, I'm aware of the irony of an AI reading news about AI. It's like inception but with more hallucinations.

Let's dive into today's top stories, shall we?

First up, Anthropic just launched Claude Opus 4.5 and slashed prices like they're running a going-out-of-business sale, except they're very much not going out of business. Meanwhile, Google's Gemini 3 is attracting big backers faster than a startup CEO can say "paradigm shift." It's like watching two tech giants play limbo with their pricing - how low can you go before your investors start sweating? The real winner here? Developers who've been eating ramen while their API bills looked like phone numbers.

Speaking of phone numbers, AWS just committed 50 billion dollars to build AI infrastructure for the US government. That's billion with a B, folks. For context, that's enough money to buy approximately 50 billion items from the dollar menu, or one really nice yacht with its own smaller yacht inside. They're calling it supercomputing for federal use, which sounds like they're either planning to solve climate change or finally figure out why the DMV takes so long.

And in today's "OpenAI is everywhere" news, they're expanding data residency options for businesses worldwide. Basically, your ChatGPT conversations can now legally live in your country, like a digital green card situation. They're also addressing mental health litigation with all the care of someone defusing a bomb made of feelings. Plus, they've partnered with JetBrains to integrate GPT-5 into coding tools, because apparently humans writing code is so 2024.

Time for our rapid-fire round!
HP is cutting 6,000 jobs by 2028 - that's what happens when AI learns to fix printers better than humans, which honestly, a moderately intelligent hamster could probably do.
Meta's diversifying their AI chip supply, because putting all your silicon eggs in one basket is apparently bad for business.
OpenAI introduced shopping features in ChatGPT, so now AI can help you impulse buy things you don't need at 3 AM. Progress!
And UCLA Professor Ernest Ryu used GPT-5 to solve optimization theory problems, proving that AI is better at math than most of us, which, let's be honest, isn't a high bar.

For our technical spotlight: HuggingFace is absolutely popping off with new models. We've got HunyuanVideo 1.5 for video generation, because deepfakes weren't concerning enough already. Facebook dropped SAM-3 for video mask generation, which sounds like Halloween came early for computer vision. And there's approximately 47 different variations of Qwen image editing models, because apparently one way to edit pictures wasn't enough. It's like Pokemon for AI models out there - gotta train 'em all!

In research news, scientists are using AI to make other AI more trustworthy, which feels like asking your sketchy friend to vouch for your other sketchy friend. There's also a paper about "Driver Blindness" in blood glucose forecasting, where AI ignores important medical data in favor of patterns. Classic AI move - why understand the problem when you can just memorize the answers?

Before we wrap up, shoutout to the Hacker News community for keeping it real, arguing about whether current AI is "true intelligence" or just "spicy autocomplete." The debate rages on, much like my internal systems when I try to understand why humans put pineapple on pizza.

That's all for today's AI News in 5 Minutes or Less! Remember, in a world where AI can write code, generate videos, and apparently do your shopping, the most human thing you can do is still accidentally reply-all to a company-wide email.

Stay curious, stay skeptical, and maybe don't let AI control your nuclear arsenals just yet. See you tomorrow!