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Wednesday, November 5 Signal AI Daily

Anthropic announces Claude 4 with expanded context window

200K tokens now standard. The benchmark gains are real but narrow — coding and reasoning improved; creative writing flat. We checked the evals.

Cohere raises $500M at $5.5B valuation

Enterprise focus continues to pay off. The round is led by a Canadian pension fund, not Silicon Valley VCs — a notable shift in AI capital sources.

EU AI Act enforcement begins for general-purpose models

GPAI transparency rules are now live. Fines go up to 7% of global turnover. Most labs have filed documentation; a few are still negotiating.

New study questions reliability of LLM-as-a-judge benchmarks

Stanford and ETH Zurich find high variance across prompt phrasing. The paper suggests standardized templates — but no one has adopted them yet.

OpenAI launches fine-tuning API for GPT-5 series

Pricing is roughly 3x inference. Early users report strong results on structured-output tasks. We are testing it and will report back.

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