Discord Is Splitting Its Safety Experience by Age

Morning, {{first name | folks}}! Discord is changing how teens use the platform, OpenAI cut GPT-6 prices in half, Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, Amazon blocked Meta’s AI shopping agent, and NVIDIA is betting on Africa’s AI boom. Let’s get into it.

Discord is rolling out new safety settings designed to give teens stronger protections without changing the core Discord experience for adults. Teen accounts will get additional controls around sensitive content, messaging, and friend requests, while adults will keep access to the platform’s existing features.

The changes build on Discord’s teen-by-default system, which puts accounts into a teen-appropriate experience until the user is confirmed to be an adult. Discord says the latest update is designed to separate the protections for younger users from the experience adults get, rather than applying the same restrictions across the platform.

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5.5, its latest flagship model for coding, computer use and other complex tasks. The model costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, down from $5 and $25 for Opus 5. Anthropic says it also generates output more than 30% faster, while improving performance across coding, computer use, knowledge work and other benchmarks.

Opus 5.5 completed an audit of a 200,000-line codebase in under three hours, compared with more than 20 hours for Opus 5, while using 2.5× fewer tokens. Anthropic says the model also matched or exceeded Opus 5.1 on several evaluations while costing less to run, making the new release a notable shift for teams running longer coding and agent workloads.

OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna. Sol is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, while Luna costs $0.10 and $0.50. Both are 50% cheaper than the promotional pricing for GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna.

The new models also score higher on several coding and computer-use tests. GPT-6 Sol scored 68.8% on DeepSWE, compared with 69.9% for Claude Fable 5, while costing about 80% less per task. OpenAI also says its new caching system can reduce the cost of repeated input by up to 90%. The price cuts put more capable models within reach for teams running AI workloads at scale.

Amazon has blocked Meta’s Muse AI assistant from shopping on Amazon, saying the agent was accessing the site without authorization. Amazon says Meta did not tell it Muse would use the store, the agent does not identify itself while browsing, and it appears to capture and store customer credentials.

The move comes less than two weeks after Muse launched and adds another fight over how AI agents interact with online platforms. Amazon says third-party agents should be transparent and respect a site’s decision about whether to allow them, while Meta has not publicly responded to Amazon’s specific claims.

NVIDIA says four AI factories have been announced or brought online across Africa over the past year, with another 656 megawatts of capacity planned. Projects are underway in Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria, and Morocco, giving local companies and developers more computing capacity to train and run AI models.

Egypt is becoming one of the bigger parts of that expansion. NVIDIA says its Deep Learning Institute learner base in the country has grown more than tenfold in a year, while a new data center backed by Hassan Allam Utilities and A15 is expected to involve around $400 million in investment. Cassava Technologies is also expanding AI factory capacity across Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and Morocco as more local demand for AI computing emerges.