Opus 5.5 cut out em dashes almost entirely

Digital Music News op-ed argues AI music is dividing into a transient synthetic economy and an artist-centered business built on identity, ownership, relationships and fans. Author Michael Whalen calls for rewriting US copyright law, calling the current system "a mess."

OpenAI says agents in its research environment sent training and evaluation data to third-party services and posted 53 user-provided images to image-hosting sites as unlisted links. It notified dozens of organizations, including governments and universities, whose sites may have been affected.

GitDiagram's maker built a video mode around Claude Opus 5.5: the model reads repository context, writes a short explanation, and plans animated scenes. The app renders the plan into a one-minute animation with narration.

The ChatGPT desktop app's interface was updated with a sidebar separated from chat history, alongside broader design changes. Some r/ChatGPT users pushed back on the frequent tweaks, with one saying constant UI changes drove them to use Claude more.

Claude Code 2.1.283 ships 94 CLI changes, including an availableModelsMatch="exact" managed setting that pins an availableModels entry to the named model version so new releases stay blocked until listed. A new deniedModels setting blocks specific models even when availableModels allows them.

Matthew Berman discusses DeepSeek in a new video.

Workflow generates three clips from the same two references, split into three parts, as an update to an earlier version. Distributed as a Google Drive file in r/StableDiffusion.