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model releases, research and announcements from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, Mistral and the labs building frontier AI
OpenAI Is Building an AI Agent That Never Stops Working
A new 'Persistent mode' for OpenAI's Codex would let an AI agent keep running tasks on its own, and even message you without being asked. Here is what that means for ordinary users.
An AI Just Solved a Hard Open Problem in Pure Mathematics. Mathematicians Are Shaken.
OpenAI's Astra model cracked a longstanding question in group theory this month. A working mathematician explains why that felt impossible just weeks ago.
Google DeepMind puts its AI in a cryptographic sealed box for testing
A first-of-its-kind double-blind evaluation aims to stop AI models from secretly studying the exam before test day.
Perplexity launches Portable Computer, an AI agent that runs entirely on your own machine
Built with Nvidia, the new product lets an AI agent handle hours of document work without sending your files to the cloud or charging you per task.
NVIDIA's New Vera Rubin Chip Does 30 Times More AI Work Per Watt Than Its Predecessor
Fresh benchmark data puts NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 far ahead on energy efficiency for the complex, multi-step AI tasks that companies are building into their products at speed.
Google Launches Three New Gemini Audio Models That Handle Jargon, Interruptions and 85 Languages
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, 3.5 Live and 3.5 Live Experimental are rolling out now, and the transcription model is a first for the Gemini family.
OpenAI's Head of Data Centers Has Left the Company, Adding to a Long List of Senior Departures
Chris Malone, who oversaw OpenAI's data center strategy during a critical period of infrastructure growth, left last week. He is at least the 13th senior executive to exit the company in 2026.
IBM's Granite 4.2: Three Sizes, One Big Leap Into AI Reasoning
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of reasoning-focused AI models that can think through hard problems step by step, use tools, and browse the web, all free under an open licence.
GLM-5.3 Opens Up to Developers at the Same Price as Its Predecessor
Chinese startup Z.ai's new frontier model is now available via API, matching the old per-token rate while scoring higher on independent benchmarks. But a quirk in how the model writes means your bill may still rise.
Grok Is Sending Users Word Salad Instead of Answers
A bug in xAI's Grok chatbot is filling some users' screens with meaningless strings of words. Here is what is happening, who is affected, and what to do if it hits you.
Liquid AI's New Draft Models Make Its LFMs Up to 3.2x Faster, No Quality Trade-off
A technique called speculative decoding lets a small helper model do the heavy lifting so the main model just checks the work. The result: dramatically faster output on everything from a data-centre GPU to a MacBook.
Liquid AI Squeezes Its Small Models onto Phones and Raspberry Pis Without Losing Much Quality
A new training trick called Quantization-Aware Distillation lets Liquid AI's compact language models run on cheap hardware while keeping 97% of their full-precision accuracy.
Google's new AI chief has one job: close the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic
Demis Hassabis steps aside as DeepMind boss. His replacement, Koray Kavukcuoglu, takes the wheel at a company analysts say has fallen behind in the race for the most powerful AI models.
Chinese AI Labs Now Dominate Open-Source Models. Here Is What the Numbers Actually Say.
A Hugging Face data deep-dive covering January to August 2026 finds Chinese labs releasing the biggest open models by far, while the tools developers actually depend on are years-old American ones that rarely make headlines.
OpenAI's new Ultrafast mode makes GPT-5.6 Sol run at 14 times normal speed
A new preview mode promises dramatically faster responses from OpenAI's most powerful model. Here's what that actually means and who can get it.