OpenAI’s internal data analysis agent. SERA, open-weights coding models built for agents. Google’s gene prediction research in Nature. GPT-4o’s swan song.
OpenAI’s move to win over scientists and scholars. How U.S. workers are adopting (and not adopting) AI. Moltbot, an open-source local automation agent. Nvidia’s latest open weather and climate models.
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking, a smartphone-sized reasoning model. Adobe’s initiative to win over the movie business. Google’s partnership with Japan’s biggest startup. AI companies’ relationship reset with U.S. government.
Persona drift: how prompts can enable bad behavior. X’s transformer-based personalization algorithm. How Cursor agents built a working web browser in a week. Expanding ChatGPT and model access for students.
GLM-Image, an open-weights hybrid image model. TranslateGemma, Google’s fast translation model. Wikipedia’s new partnerships with AI companies. FLUX.2 [klein], a noncommercial image model for consumer hardware.
Anthropic’s play for the healthcare market. UCP, a new standard for agentic shopping. Malaysia and Indonesia’s stand against Grok. DeepSeek’s new memory management method.
Universal and Nvidia’s music partnership. A new set of benchmarks for evaluating top models. Test-time learning, a method of training for long-context. Character.AI’s settlements in teen suicide cases.
Qwen’s improved open-weights image editing model. Yann LeCun’s last research paper for Meta. Falcon H1R 7B, a hybrid reasoning model. SWE-Lego, a training recipe for squashing software bugs.
GLM-4.7, Zhipu’s open-weights reasoning model. Minimax’s M2.1 update ahead of planned company IPO. India’s intervention to restrict Grok’s deepfake nudes. Scientific Context Protocol, a new standard for research agents.
Usually, Data Points brings you the latest AI news, tools, models, and research in brief. But in today’s special New Year’s 2026 edition, you’ll find something different: a collection of our readers’ highest hopes for AI in 2026.
Usually, Data Points brings you the latest AI news, tools, models, and research in brief. But in today’s special New Year’s 2026 edition, you’ll find something different: a collection of our readers’ highest hopes for AI in 2026.
GPT-5.2 Codex, OpenAI’s new agentic coding model. Qwen’s image layer segmentation model. A2UI, an open Google project to help agents build apps. Training robots to learn from human actions.
GPT’s leaderboard-topping Image 1.5. Qwen’s 30B long-context reasoning model. iRobot’s bankruptcy and planned acquisition. Microsoft’s Voxel 3D generation model.
Nvidia’s Nemotron 3 family of models, including a 30B standout. Microsoft’s RL-powered Agent Lightning. Google’s new Flash voice models and translation agents. “Slop,” 2025’s word of the year.
Mistral’s Devstral 2’s cost-effective coding. GLM-4.6V’s addition of native function calling to vision-language reasoning. Cursor 2.2’s debug and web developer modes. A new executive order preempting local AI regulations in the U.S.
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