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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
Google Pairs Nano Banana Update With Video API: Gemini's image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) and video (Gemini Omni Flash) models, built to work together
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Google Pairs Nano Banana Update With Video API: Gemini's image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) and video (Gemini Omni Flash) models, built to work together

Google built a low-cost, high-throughput pipeline for developers working with media, combining Gemini’s fastest image model yet with a similarly speedy multimodal model that can turn images into video with synchronized sound.

July 10, 20264 min read
Fable’s Return and Fallout: How Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 got banned by the U.S. Government, then came back to the market
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Fable’s Return and Fallout: How Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 got banned by the U.S. Government, then came back to the market

Claude Fable 5 and the more powerful Claude Mythos 5 are back, three weeks after Anthropic suspended the models due to an export control directive from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

July 10, 20264 min read
Microsoft Strikes Out on Its Own: Microsoft revealed MAI-Thinking-1, a Claude Sonnet 4.6-sized reasoning model developed without distillation
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Microsoft Strikes Out on Its Own: Microsoft revealed MAI-Thinking-1, a Claude Sonnet 4.6-sized reasoning model developed without distillation

Microsoft, once OpenAI’s exclusive partner and still a major reseller of other companies’ AI models, built its own reasoning model from scratch.

July 3, 20263 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
GPT-5.6 Lands in Limbo: OpenAI previewed three GPT-5.6 Models (Sol, Terra, and Luna), wider release coming soon
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GPT-5.6 Lands in Limbo: OpenAI previewed three GPT-5.6 Models (Sol, Terra, and Luna), wider release coming soon

OpenAI announced a preview of its GPT-5.6 family, including a top-tier model comparable to Claude 5 Mythos — but so far it’s available only to users that are selected by the U.S. government.

July 3, 20265 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
Behold Mythos!: Anthropic released Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5, a public version with safeguards
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Behold Mythos!: Anthropic released Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5, a public version with safeguards

After months of headlines that teased a large language model with extraordinary capabilities, Anthropic launched Claude Mythos 5, which can crack software previously believed to be secure, and Claude Fable 5, a version for general use that limits what users can do in an unprecedented way.

June 12, 20265 min read
Fine-Tuning LLMs to Expand on Summaries Unearths Pretraining Texts: Fine-Tuning can strip models of copyright alignment guidelines
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Fine-Tuning LLMs to Expand on Summaries Unearths Pretraining Texts: Fine-Tuning can strip models of copyright alignment guidelines

Fine-tuning large language models on a seemingly benign task that would be useful to writers — expanding plot summaries into paragraphs of polished fiction — causes them to regurgitate substantial portions of books on which they were pretrained.

June 5, 20263 min read
Inside the Gray Market for LLM Access: Middlemen package extra tokens, hijack IDs to resell, distill models
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Inside the Gray Market for LLM Access: Middlemen package extra tokens, hijack IDs to resell, distill models

An ecosystem of API proxy servers enables AI developers in China to access top U.S. models at deeply discounted prices.

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
Europe Pauses Some AI Regulations: European Union regulators delay some AI Act provisions, delete others
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Europe Pauses Some AI Regulations: European Union regulators delay some AI Act provisions, delete others

The European Union weakened some provisions of its landmark AI Act and delayed others after businesses and policymakers argued the law made European companies less competitive.

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
Cybersecurity Alarms Grow Louder: Google study shows LLM-generated malware is getting harder to track and stop
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Cybersecurity Alarms Grow Louder: Google study shows LLM-generated malware is getting harder to track and stop

An AI-generated script to bypass two-factor authentication signals a dawning era of industrial-scale cyberattacks, according to a Google report.

May 22, 20263 min read

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