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OpenAI and Microsoft sever their exclusive relationship: DeepSeek V4 makes a smaller splash
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OpenAI and Microsoft sever their exclusive relationship: DeepSeek V4 makes a smaller splash

Google’s and Amazon’s huge bets on Anthropic. Google employees’ resistance to secret government use of AI. The U.S. threat to punish Chinese companies that distill U.S. AI models. An agentic system that autonomously designed a working CPU.

April 29, 20265 min read
Insurance companies carve out exceptions for AI risks: U.S. military re-engages with Anthropic
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Insurance companies carve out exceptions for AI risks: U.S. military re-engages with Anthropic

A San Francisco retail store run by an AI agent. OpenAI’s specialized life-sciences model. Anthropic’s designs on the market for graphic design. Wall Street’s AI-driven workforce adjustments.

April 28, 20264 min read
Hackers break into Claude Mythos: OpenAI launches a security-specialized competitor to Mythos
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Hackers break into Claude Mythos: OpenAI launches a security-specialized competitor to Mythos

Maine votes to pause construction of data centers. Journalists at major U.S. newspapers push back on publisher’s demand to use AI. AI-generated talking-head videos that support President Trump flood social media. Humanoid robots outrun human world record in a half-marathon race.

April 22, 20264 min read
Anthropic’s claims for Claude Mythos raise questions: 40 percent of U.S. data-center projects may be delayed
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Anthropic’s claims for Claude Mythos raise questions: 40 percent of U.S. data-center projects may be delayed

OpenAI’s big bet on an alternative to Nvidia. Meta’s plan to build a virtual CEO. Financial risks of lending money to companies affected by AI. Luma’s AI-driven film production studio.

April 20, 20264 min read
Nvidia’s open AI models go quantum: Suspect arrested for attack on OpenAI HQ and CEO’s home
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Nvidia’s open AI models go quantum: Suspect arrested for attack on OpenAI HQ and CEO’s home

Muse Spark, Meta’s model for AI glasses, social media, and more. Rubber Duck, Copilot’s tool to make GPT-5.4 check Claude’s work. Claude Managed Agents, a built-in harness for enterprise tools. GPT-5.4-Cyber, OpenAI’s new not-for-public cybersecurity model.

April 15, 20265 min read
China’s showdown with NeurIPS conference: Claude’s emotion vectors aren’t feelings, but affect behavior
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China’s showdown with NeurIPS conference: Claude’s emotion vectors aren’t feelings, but affect behavior

Google’s updates to its open model family. Cursor 3, a brand-new interface built for agents. Microsoft AI’s latest speech and image models. Anthropic’s clampdown on OpenClaw.

April 6, 20265 min read
Sora no more; OpenAI shuts down video maker: Tencent introduces ClawBot, an OpenClaw wrapper for WeChat
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Sora no more; OpenAI shuts down video maker: Tencent introduces ClawBot, an OpenClaw wrapper for WeChat

Anthropic’s multi-agent harness design. A new voice agent benchmark. Arm’s chip design for data center CPU. U.S. White House’s AI proposal to Congress.

March 25, 20265 min read
MiniMax’s M2.7 model competes with Gemini and Opus: Cursor’s Composer 2 does the same, but for code
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MiniMax’s M2.7 model competes with Gemini and Opus: Cursor’s Composer 2 does the same, but for code

Microsoft’s latest image model. Google’s Stitch, a platform for designers. Claude Code Channels, another step towards OpenClaw parity. Anthropic’s denial of a back door into defense operations.

March 23, 20265 min read
Nvidia’s enterprise-focused NemoClaw gives OpenClaw a security boost: Claude Dispatch lets paid users authorize remote work
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Nvidia’s enterprise-focused NemoClaw gives OpenClaw a security boost: Claude Dispatch lets paid users authorize remote work

GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano, optimized for speed. Nvidia’s own tiny-sized open-weights model. Midjourney updates to v8 in Alpha. Mamba releases third version of its state space language model.

March 18, 20265 min read
Perplexity Computer hits desktop, mobile, Pro: Google releases Aletheia, its top natural language math agent
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Perplexity Computer hits desktop, mobile, Pro: Google releases Aletheia, its top natural language math agent

DeepSeek testing favors local chipmakers. Nvidia’s reasoning-added retrieval method. Why OpenAI and Oracle shut down Stargate expansion. Meta’s giant deal with AI cloud provider Nebius.

March 16, 20265 min read
DeerFlow 2.0 puts new spin on Claw-like agents: Anthropic sues the U.S., which shows no signs of backing down
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DeerFlow 2.0 puts new spin on Claw-like agents: Anthropic sues the U.S., which shows no signs of backing down

Meta’s purchase of Moltbook, a social network for AI agents. Iran’s attacks on data centers in the UAE and elsewhere. Google’s new multimodal embedding model. Grammarly’s AI ventriloquism using famous writers.

March 11, 20265 min read
GPT-5.4 Pro challenges Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Luma’s new state-of-the-art image editor/interpreter
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GPT-5.4 Pro challenges Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Luma’s new state-of-the-art image editor/interpreter

Microsoft’s new open-weights vision reasoning model. Yuan 3.0 Ultra, a document-retrieving juggernaut. OpenAI’s hardware leader’s resignation. Black Forest’s new training method for image models.

March 9, 20265 min read
Qwen3.5 Small tops mobile-sized open models: Google introduces its own small model, Gemini 3.1-Flash-Lite
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Qwen3.5 Small tops mobile-sized open models: Google introduces its own small model, Gemini 3.1-Flash-Lite

Claude’s expanded memory feature, including imports. GPT-5.3 Instant, a terse update to ChatGPT. How LLMs can unmask pseudonymous online users. Alibaba’s Qwen leadership losses soon after 3.5 release.

March 4, 20265 min read
Anthropic and the U.S. government go to war: OpenAI partners with the U.S., claims additional safeguards
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Anthropic and the U.S. government go to war: OpenAI partners with the U.S., claims additional safeguards

Nano Banana 2, Google’s fast, powerful image generator. GitHub Copilot’s multi-model and security scanning updates. Perplexity Computer, a premium multipurpose agent. OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar partnership with Amazon.

March 2, 20265 min read
Anthropic, U.S. square off over AI safeguards: Mercury 2, an ultra-fast diffusion language model
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Anthropic, U.S. square off over AI safeguards: Mercury 2, an ultra-fast diffusion language model

Remote Control, a tool to vibe-code from your phone. Anthropic’s charge that DeepSeek and others distilled its models. Qwen 3.5’s suite of medium MoE models. Protenix-v1, Bytedance’s open-source take on AlphaFold 3.

February 25, 20264 min read

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