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model releases, research and announcements from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, Mistral and the labs building frontier AI
ChatGPT now refuses to copy a living author's writing style
OpenAI's chatbot has quietly started blocking requests to mimic named authors, offering a watered-down alternative instead. Here is what changed and why it matters.
Safe Superintelligence and Nvidia Strike a Multi-Billion Dollar Partnership to Scale AI Safety Research
Ilya Sutskever's secretive AI lab is coming out of two years of quiet work with a major compute deal, access to Nvidia's newest chips, and a valuation of $32 billion.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5 with stronger safety guardrails and the same price as its predecessor
The new model sits below the company's most powerful AI but beats it on everyday tasks and costs half as much. Government testing happened before launch.
Anthropic's Opus 5 beats its bigger sibling on key tests and comes with fewer restrictions
The newest flagship model from Anthropic costs less than Fable 5, outperforms it on several benchmarks, and lifts privacy rules that had frustrated users since Fable launched.
Google Drops Three New Gemini Models, But the One Everybody Wanted Is Still Missing
Google DeepMind released cheaper, faster AI models on Tuesday, including one built just for cybersecurity. Its flagship 'Pro' model, however, is still delayed.
Google Quietly Upgrades to Gemini 3.6 Flash After 3.5 Fell Short on Coding
Google has released three new AI models, including a surprise version bump from 3.5 to 3.6 Flash. The promised Gemini 3.5 Pro is still not here.
Google's new Gemini Flash models are built for AI that runs itself
Google DeepMind's 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite promise cheaper, faster AI agents. Here is what that means for the apps and games you actually use.
Claude Code's Secret Weapon Is the Software Around the AI, Not Just the AI Itself
Anthropic's head of product for Claude Code explains why the smartest move in AI coding tools right now is building smarter wrappers, not just smarter models.
China's Moonshot and Alibaba unveil giant AI models they say rival GPT-5 and Claude
Two of China's biggest AI players released models this weekend that they claim match the best American systems, and plan to make them free to download. The gap between US and Chinese AI may be shrinking fast.
China's Kimi K3 Is the Biggest AI Model to Come Out of China Yet, and It's Rattling the Market
Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 has 2.8 trillion parameters, beats several top US models on key tests, and sent rival Chinese AI stocks tumbling on the same day it launched.
NVIDIA and Hugging Face team up to make training giant image and video AI models far easier
A new open-source tool lets developers fine-tune some of the largest image and video generators available, on hardware ranging from a single machine to hundreds of chips, with no complicated file conversions.
An AI Taught Itself to Write Better Code, No Teacher Required
A surprisingly simple trick let a leading AI model lift its coding score by nearly 13 points, just by studying its own answers.
NVIDIA's New AI Search Models Top Global Rankings and Cut Agent Costs
NVIDIA released three new embedding models that set a new accuracy record for AI information retrieval. The best one also helps AI agents finish tasks faster and cheaper.
The ex-DeepMind researcher who raised $300 million before his startup had a product
Andrew Dai spent over a decade helping build some of the most influential AI systems in the world. Now he thinks visual AI is where the next big leap happens, and investors are betting heavily that he is right.
China's Kimi K3 could match Anthropic's best model and it will be free to use
Moonshot AI's next release is set to be the largest open-weight model from China, and early reports suggest it can go toe-to-toe with Anthropic's most capable closed system.