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Sources: AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, has hit a valuation of $3.2B, up from $300M in April, and is profitable (Anna Tong/Forbes)

AfterQuery, a coding and finance training data provider for AI labs, reached a $3.2 billion valuation and became profitable after a $300 million April valuation. Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, pricing input tokens at $10 M and output at $50 M, with cache reads $0.25 M. The FBI is investigating Nexus, a dark-web service offering scans of over 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s licenses. OpenAI announced a forthcoming public release of its Astra model, limiting its most advanced cyber capabilities to select testers and partners.