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model releases, research and announcements from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, Mistral and the labs building frontier AI
Inkling-Small Is a Quarter the Size of Its Predecessor and Nearly as Capable
Thinking Machines has released a second open-source AI model just two weeks after its first. The smaller version costs less to run, scores higher on several coding tests, and comes with a business-friendly licence.
Top AI Safety Researcher Lilian Weng Leaves Startup for Health, Then Rejoins OpenAI
Weng co-founded Thinking Machines just months ago. Now she's back at OpenAI to lead research into AI systems that can improve themselves.
OpenAI Is Building a 'Family of Devices', Here Is What Greg Brockman Actually Said
The OpenAI president confirmed hardware is coming but gave no release date, no product names and no confirmation of the rumoured smart speaker. He did hint at voice becoming the main way people use computers.
Google's Gemini Managed Agents Get a Quieter Upgrade: Faster Default Model, Guardrails, and a Free Tier
Gemini 3.6 Flash is now the default for managed agents, and new environment hooks let developers block or audit what the AI does inside its sandbox.
Liquid AI releases two lean encoder models that read long documents fast, even on a laptop
LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M can scan an entire contract in under 30 seconds on ordinary computer hardware, no specialist chip required.
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 blended 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 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. Gemini 3.5 Pro, promised for June, still hasn't arrived.
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 claiming to match the best American systems, with plans to make them free to download. The gap between US and Chinese AI may be closing faster than Washington expected.
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.