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Cloudflare’s Web Crawler Flare-Up: Cloudflare moves to block all AI training bots by default
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Cloudflare’s Web Crawler Flare-Up: Cloudflare moves to block all AI training bots by default

Web publishers using Cloudflare will soon be able to separately control an AI bot’s access based on what it does, allowing search indexing while blocking AI training or agent activity.

July 24, 20263 min read
Meta Sparks A Price War: Muse Spark 1.1 makes a jump in intelligence at a lower price than peers
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Meta Sparks A Price War: Muse Spark 1.1 makes a jump in intelligence at a lower price than peers

With Llama, Meta marked itself as an open alternative to OpenAI. With its new closed models, Meta now positions itself as a low-cost, high-value competitor.

July 24, 20264 min read
Put the Lab in the Loop: Robin automates drug discovery, matching chemical processes of known drugs to research on diseases
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Put the Lab in the Loop: Robin automates drug discovery, matching chemical processes of known drugs to research on diseases

An AI agent proposed new medical uses for established drugs nearly autonomously — uses that were supported by experiments on isolated human cells — with human input only to name diseases to be treated and run the AI-proposed lab experiments. 

July 17, 20264 min read
Fugu Blends Models Task by Task: Sakana debuted dedicated orchestrator models, Fugu and Fugu-Ultra, that spawn Claude, Gemini, and GPT agents
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Fugu Blends Models Task by Task: Sakana debuted dedicated orchestrator models, Fugu and Fugu-Ultra, that spawn Claude, Gemini, and GPT agents

Models that orchestrate the activities of other models and agents achieved state-of-the-art performance on a variety of benchmarks, outperforming the best individual models working alone.

July 3, 20264 min read
Top Agentic Performance, Low Cost: GLM-5.2, designed for coding and long-running agentic jobs, now the top open model
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Top Agentic Performance, Low Cost: GLM-5.2, designed for coding and long-running agentic jobs, now the top open model

Z.ai released an open-weights model that rivals proprietary leaders for autonomous agentic tasks.

June 26, 20264 min read
Nvidia’s Nemotron Goes Big: Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra bets on speed and openness to win customers
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Nvidia’s Nemotron Goes Big: Nvidia Nemotron 3 Ultra bets on speed and openness to win customers

Nvidia’s largest-yet model is among the best-performing from a developer based in the U.S. and among the most open developed by anyone.

June 19, 20264 min read
Agentic Tests Beyond the Bug Hunt: DeepSWE, ProgramBench, and ITBench-AA push agents harder than SWE-bench
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Agentic Tests Beyond the Bug Hunt: DeepSWE, ProgramBench, and ITBench-AA push agents harder than SWE-bench

SWE-bench, a family of benchmarks that focuses on an LLM’s ability to fix software bugs, is giving way to new tests that evaluate agent software-engineering performance in more challenging ways.

June 19, 20264 min read
RSI Is the New AGI: What Is recursive self-improvement, and why Is everybody talking about it?
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RSI Is the New AGI: What Is recursive self-improvement, and why Is everybody talking about it?

The phrase recursive self-improvement erupted on social media following an Anthropic report that tracked AI-driven gains in the company’s internal software-engineering productivity.

June 12, 20264 min read
Cursor Fits Its Model to Its Agent: Composer 2.5 for Cursor rivals GPT-5.5's coding abilities at lower price
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Cursor Fits Its Model to Its Agent: Composer 2.5 for Cursor rivals GPT-5.5's coding abilities at lower price

Cursor’s latest software engineering model rivals the performance of leading competitors like Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.5 for a fraction of the price.

June 12, 20264 min read
Qwen3.7-Max Adds Speed and Power: Alibaba's latest proprietary model challenges U.S. rivals
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Qwen3.7-Max Adds Speed and Power: Alibaba's latest proprietary model challenges U.S. rivals

Alibaba updated its flagship large language model for long-running agentic work, pushing it into the top rank among LLMs built in China.

June 5, 20263 min read
Agents Surf the AI-Written Web: Internet traffic driven by AI rripled last year, study shows
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Agents Surf the AI-Written Web: Internet traffic driven by AI rripled last year, study shows

AI-driven activity on the internet rose sharply last year, a study shows.

May 29, 20263 min read
Gemini 3.5 Flash Pairs Smarts With Speed: Google's updated Flash levels up, approaching top models but raising prices
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Gemini 3.5 Flash Pairs Smarts With Speed: Google's updated Flash levels up, approaching top models but raising prices

Google’s faster model brings substantive gains at a substantially higher price, part of a rising trend in prices per token.

May 29, 20264 min read
Toward Agent Benchmarks That Reflect Human Work: AI agents may not be getting better at full range of economically valuable labor
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Toward Agent Benchmarks That Reflect Human Work: AI agents may not be getting better at full range of economically valuable labor

AI agents seem to be increasingly capable of performing economically valuable tasks, but current benchmarks measure this capability only narrowly.

May 22, 20263 min read
Hermes Agent Challenges OpenClaw: OpenClaw created a class of personal agents; upstart Hermes Agent is outworking it
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Hermes Agent Challenges OpenClaw: OpenClaw created a class of personal agents; upstart Hermes Agent is outworking it

OpenClaw, the immensely popular AI agent, has fast-rising competition.

May 22, 20264 min read
China Nixes Meta-Manus Tie-Up: State regulators block acquisition of an agentic startup headquarted in Singapore
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China Nixes Meta-Manus Tie-Up: State regulators block acquisition of an agentic startup headquarted in Singapore

China shut down Meta’s attempt to acquire agentic technology that originated within its borders, a blow to further technical interchange and investment between China and the U.S. 

May 15, 20263 min read

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