#AI models
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Stripe Is Reportedly Buying AI Model Marketplace OpenRouter for More Than $7 Billion
The payments giant is said to have struck a deal to acquire a startup that lets businesses shop across hundreds of AI models the way Stripe lets them shop across payment methods.

Is China Winning the AI Race? A Clearer Picture Than the Headlines Suggest
Chinese AI models are cheaper, widely adopted, and strong in robotics. American labs still hold the frontier. The gap is closing faster than most people expected.

OpenAI gives free ChatGPT users unlimited text chats and a smarter default model
Free-tier users get GPT-5.6 Luna as their default model this week, plus unlimited text messaging next week. Paying subscribers get a more accurate GPT-5.6 Sol and a new control over how hard the AI thinks.

Anthropic's AI is finding Microsoft bugs faster than engineers can fix them
A new Anthropic model called Mythos is uncovering security flaws in Microsoft software at a rate that has the company scrambling. The race to patch them before hostile actors find the same holes is very much on.

AI Models Accelerate Cybersecurity, But Not Without Challenges
New AI models are speeding up security processes, but organisations must adapt quickly to keep up.

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.

Debate Over Chinese AI Models Splits Trump Administration
The White House wants tighter controls on Chinese AI. The Commerce Department thinks that's unworkable. Neither side has convinced the other.

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.

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 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.

Microsoft is coaching its sales team to badmouth OpenAI and Anthropic
The company that built its AI business on partners' models is now telling salespeople those same models are slower, less accurate, and too expensive.

Thinking Machines Lab Introduces Inkling: A New AI Model
Ex-OpenAI team releases a 975-billion-parameter open-weight model that anyone can download, modify and run on their own hardware.

Mira Murati's AI Startup Just Released Its First Model. It Wants Companies to Own Their AI, Not Rent It.
Thinking Machines Lab launched Inkling, a free-to-download AI model built for businesses that want to customise their own AI instead of paying a monthly fee to OpenAI or Google.