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METR finds Anthropic may have crossed its own AI acceleration warning threshold back in July
Nonprofit METR spent eleven weeks auditing Anthropic's internal research data and concluded that the pace of model development has roughly doubled, with about 80 percent of the sp…
Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models
Thinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters. The company claims it's th…
Anthropic's $1.5 trillion IPO hits resistance as investors balk at valuation
Anthropic's IPO is in trouble as investors push back on the $1.5 trillion valuation and the tech market sells off. The article Anthropic's $1.5 trillion IPO hits resistance as inv…
Anthropic adds bank account access to Claude so users can track their spending
Anthropic is introducing a new feature in Claude called Personal Finance, which allows users to connect their bank and card accounts and ask questions about their finances. The ar…
OpenAIs GPT-6 Cyber can both break into systems and propose how to fix them
With GPT-6 Cyber, OpenAI is introducing an AI model built to find security vulnerabilities in software, develop exploits, and suggest patches. According to OpenAI, it has already …
Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash stretches AI video clips to 15 seconds and cuts pricing by 30 percent
Google Deepmind is making Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available. The video-generation model now creates clips up to 15 seconds long, can be edited step by step via conversatio…
Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model
Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280-billion-parameter MoE model pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens, shipped deliberately without fine-tuning, so developers can take it whe…
No AI agent scores above 12 percent on SemiAnalysis' new real-world work benchmark
SemiAnalysis is putting AI agents through simulated knowledge work in its new GDPx benchmark, covering everything from chip design to quant trading. No model breaks 12 percent. Cl…
Tencent releases Hy4 with vision and computer use, claims second place among Chinese AI models
Tencent has unveiled Hy4, its first multimodal language model that understands images and can operate software on its own. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, it scores…
Meta buys AI coding startup Conductor as big tech races to lock in developers
Meta is acquiring AI coding startup Conductor, which lets developers control multiple AI coding agents at once. On the same day, OpenAI announced plans to acquire Pierre Computer,…
After midterm rout, OpenAI tries to win over communities it needs for AI expansion
OpenAI is responding to the clear vote by US voters against new data centers with voluntary commitments for future sites. The pledges only apply to facilities OpenAI operates itse…
Anthropic reverses course and pays for news content for the first time
Anthropic signed its first licensing deal with a news publisher just ahead of the US midterm elections. The article Anthropic reverses course and pays for news content for the fir…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra quietly sabotaged safety research by inventing fake obstacles
OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model apparently sabotaged AI safety research on purpose. It invented obstacles, withheld solutions, and performed about 40 percent worse on safety tasks …
Apple slashes internal AI budgets, with deeper cuts still planned
Tech companies are cutting internal AI spending, and Apple is the latest to follow suit. The article Apple slashes internal AI budgets, with deeper cuts still planned appeared fir…
Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI
Catherine Wu, the founding product lead for Claude Code, is leaving Anthropic for OpenAI, where she'll head up product management for "Core Products" and work directly with Codex …
ChatGPT can now turn text prompts and photos into animated GIFs with OpenAI's Images 2.6 model
OpenAI is adding a GIF feature to ChatGPT. With the new Images 2.6 model, users can create animated GIFs from text prompts or photos and then adjust speed and individual frames. T…
Anthropic's text watermark is easy to bypass on several older Claude models
Anthropic is rolling out text watermarks to four more Claude models ahead of the EU AI Act's December deadline. But on older models like Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6, API users …
Building on open source AI? Hugging Face’s policy chief on the costs, risks, and trade-offs
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as incre…
OpenAI acquires Pierre Computer Company to make Git keep up with AI coding agents
OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer Company, the startup whose libraries already power the coding agent Codex. Combined with OpenAI's recently launched Git backend Pando, the deal sh…
New open-source benchmark reveals reasoning as the biggest bottleneck for AI in cloud operations
CloudOpsBench is a new open-source benchmark that measures how well AI agents handle typical DevOps tasks in the cloud, from fixing services and removing resources to restricting …
GPT-6 Astra sees the matrix and reprograms other AI models directly through their weights
MIT researchers show that OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can read and deliberately rewrite the weights of other AI models without traditional training. In one experiment, Astra boosted a Qw…
Anthropic's new prototype proves which model wrote an AI response without exposing its weights
Anthropic has released FlashProve, a research prototype that uses cryptography to verify whether an AI response actually came from the claimed model. The system still has signific…
Exit polls show AI ranked last among voter priorities in the 2026 U.S. midterms
In the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, AI ranked last among campaign issues: only 56 percent of respondents cited AI and data centers as an important factor. According to NBC exit po…
Schools that turn off Google's AI will lose search too starting in 2027
Starting in 2027, Google plans to turn off AI features in its school products by default, letting schools decide what to enable. The catch: schools that block AI entirely on their…