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  "title": "AI Round-up: April 25, 2026",
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  "summary": "Google's reported plan to invest up to $40bn in Anthropic set the agenda, with Reuters and CNBC coverage echoed by Reddit discussion around valuation, compute and strategic dependence. Anthropic also had a busy day beyond the financing story: its NEC partnership, election-safeguards update and Project Deal research gave the snapshot a strong Claude, enterprise and governance centre of gravity.\n\nOpenAI's side of the day was about product and deployment: Privacy Filter, GPT-5.5 availability in the API, GitHub Copilot rollout, Perplexity access and Codex chatter all appeared across official X posts, YouTube reaction and Reddit testing. Elsewhere, Together pushed DeepSeek V4 Pro, Replit leaned into app security, Runway opened an AI show pitch contest, and news coverage kept attention on xAI's Colorado tech-law challenge and AI-related China warnings.",
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          "title": "An update on our election safeguards",
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          "text": "New Anthropic research: Project Deal.\n\nWe created a marketplace for employees in our San Francisco office, with one big twist. We tasked Claude with buying, selling and negotiating on our colleagues’ behalf. https://t.co/H2f6cLDlAW",
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          "text": "We’ve invested deeply in security at Replit, including our recent launches with Security Agent + Auto-Protect.\n\nIf you want to move your app to Replit, we’re offering free app imports for a limited time.\n\nBring your app over and keep building safely.\n\nGet started here:",
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          "text": "Introducing DeepSeek V4 Pro, a long-context model with hybrid attention, three reasoning modes, and SOTA coding performance.\n\nAI natives can now use DeepSeek V4 Pro on Together AI and benefit from reliable inference for long-horizon coding and agentic workflows. https://t.co/4lxriPoD7F",
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          "text": "🆕 @OpenAIDevs GPT-5.5 is now generally available and rolling out in GitHub Copilot.\n\nOur early testing shows\n➡️ It delivers its strongest performance on complex agentic coding tasks\n➡️ It resolves real-world coding challenges previous GPT models couldn’t\n\nTry it out in Copilot https://t.co/jLAZagNKXJ",
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          "text": "🚀 Sovereign AI for the world.\n\nCohere & Aleph Alpha form transatlantic AI powerhouse anchored in Canada & Germany! Combining our global scale with European R&D excellence to build sovereign, enterprise-grade AI. Security, privacy & trust for businesses & governments worldwide. https://t.co/8kOE8KFTSY",
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          "text": "Markets of AI agents could provide value, but there are plenty of rough edges. Access to higher-quality models conferred a real advantage—and participants didn’t notice. There are plenty of other ways they can go wrong.\n\nPolicy and legal frameworks will need to adapt to keep up.",
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          "text": "GPT-5.5 is now available on Perplexity for Max subscribers.\n\nGPT-5.5 is also rolling out as the default orchestration model in Computer for both Pro and Max subscribers. https://t.co/Iqno7W4iQw",
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          "text": "GPT Image 2 is now available on Runway. If you can dream it, you can see it. Down to the last detail. https://t.co/uBypCqHjZN",
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