U.S. chatbot use passes 50 percent: AA-Briefcase benchmark measures knowledge work
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U.S. chatbot use passes 50 percent: AA-Briefcase benchmark measures knowledge work

ARD, an open spec for discovery. North Mini Code gains traction. Security experts criticize U.S. government. Apple Intelligence, beyond Siri.

June 22, 20265 min read
Zhipu’s GLM-5.2 is the new top open model: SpaceX buys coding favorite Cursor
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Zhipu’s GLM-5.2 is the new top open model: SpaceX buys coding favorite Cursor

OpenRouter’s model mix-and-match. Subject expertise trumps software skills. OpenAI loses share to Google, Anthropic. Google ruled liable for AI mistakes.

June 17, 20265 min read
DiffusionGemma breaks 1,000 tokens/second: Anthropic closes Fable and Mythos after US intervention
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DiffusionGemma breaks 1,000 tokens/second: Anthropic closes Fable and Mythos after US intervention

Claude Fable 5 no longer silently degrades. Hermes Agent maker streamlines setup. Agents’ Last Exam pushes top models. Gemini-SQL2 translates database queries.

June 15, 20266 min read
Claude Fable 5, or Mythos for the masses: Apple rethinks mixture-of-experts to save local memory
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Claude Fable 5, or Mythos for the masses: Apple rethinks mixture-of-experts to save local memory

Google’s voice translation model covers 70+ languages. OpenAI’s preliminary public-offering paperwork. NotebookLM, now powered by Gemini 3.5 agents. FrontierCode, a new code-quality benchmark from Cognition.

June 10, 20265 min read
Apple builds local/cloud models with Google: Gemma 4 12B, a laptop-sized model with multimodal power
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Apple builds local/cloud models with Google: Gemma 4 12B, a laptop-sized model with multimodal power

The first working vaccine built by AI. Kimi CLI, Moonshot’s software engineering agent. The White House’s plans for an OpenAI stake. OpenJarvis, an open-source agent that learns on-device.

June 8, 20265 min read
Microsoft fully trains its own models: Copilot app brings agent management to desktop
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Microsoft fully trains its own models: Copilot app brings agent management to desktop

How agents think about search. Hermes now a multi-platform desktop app. Qwen3.7-Plus, Alibaba’s midsized cloud model. OpenAI’s latest plugins for Codex.

June 3, 20265 min read
Claude Opus 4.8 advertises its uncertainty: Dynamic workflows manage Anthropic subagents
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Claude Opus 4.8 advertises its uncertainty: Dynamic workflows manage Anthropic subagents

MiniMax M3, the new open-weights champ. Nvidia’s PC superchips. Cosmos 3, an all-modal world/action model. Nvidia’s latest robotics partnerships.

June 1, 20265 min read
DeepSWE claims to measure agents better: Pope Leo XIV calls for AI to “disarm,” consider humanity
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DeepSWE claims to measure agents better: Pope Leo XIV calls for AI to “disarm,” consider humanity

DeepSeek’s permanent V4 price cuts. MAI-Image-2.5, currently third on the Arena Leaderboard. Mythos-1’s remarkable security skills. How MCP will change later this year

May 27, 20265 min read
Qwen3.7-Max, China’s latest top model: OpenAI model disproves key math conjecture
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Qwen3.7-Max, China’s latest top model: OpenAI model disproves key math conjecture

Nvidia’s Gated DeltaNet-2, its latest attention alternative. Trump calls off executive order regulating U.S. AI models. Microsoft’s benchmark-topping suite of computer use agents. Cohere’s Command-A+, a local alternative to big cloud AI.

May 25, 20265 min read
Cursor Composer undercuts competition: All the top news from Google’s I/O event
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Cursor Composer undercuts competition: All the top news from Google’s I/O event

Google’s remade Antigravity, an alternative to IDEs. Omni Flash, Gemini’s voice-to-video generator. Google’s AI overhaul of web search. Corti’s Symphony, a specialist in medical transcription.

May 20, 20265 min read
Anthropic passes OpenAI in business adoption: Cerebras stock debut makes more AI billionaires
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Anthropic passes OpenAI in business adoption: Cerebras stock debut makes more AI billionaires

Europe’s new media licensing initiative. ArXiv’s defenses against AI-assisted mistakes. The Mythos effect on financial institutions. Ukraine’s evolving drone and data strategy.

May 18, 20265 min read
Thinking Machines debuts a new type of model: Google’s AI mouse promises better human-AI interaction
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Thinking Machines debuts a new type of model: Google’s AI mouse promises better human-AI interaction

GitHub’s new Copilot pricing. Baidu’s smaller, faster flagship model. Google’s rethinking of mathematical research. RL Conductor’s orchestration of AI agents.

May 13, 20265 min read
How Anthropic aligns its models: OpenAI improves realtime audio capabilities
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How Anthropic aligns its models: OpenAI improves realtime audio capabilities

Hermes, aka the new OpenClaw. DCI, aka the new RAG. NLAs, or how to peek inside Claude. TokenSpeed, aka the new TensorRT.

May 11, 20266 min read
US government to vet new models: ChatGPT gets a model refresh
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US government to vet new models: ChatGPT gets a model refresh

Anthropic’s latest products for banking and finance. Drug manufacturers get AI gains they didn’t expect. US military augments Anthropic with new partners. Google DeepMind’s UK unionization vote.

May 6, 20265 min read
China shuts down Manus acquisition: All the details from Microsoft’s new deal with OpenAI
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China shuts down Manus acquisition: All the details from Microsoft’s new deal with OpenAI

Nvidia’s laptop-sized omnimodal model. Grok cuts prices, boosts context. OpenAI’s AGI principles. IBM’s latest suite of open Granite models.

May 4, 20265 min read

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