Gemini 3 adds compute-intensive Deep Think: Two famous math problems solved by 10-person AI startup
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Gemini 3 adds compute-intensive Deep Think: Two famous math problems solved by 10-person AI startup

An executive order that would challenge state AI regulations in the U.S. An 8B parameter open model that shines at coding and math tasks. Publishers’ copyright and trademark lawsuits against Perplexity. Gemini 3 Pro’s ability to visually recognize handwriting from any period.

December 8, 20254 min read
Mistral 3 update adds four new open models: Amazon Nova 2 family competes with low prices, new agents
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Mistral 3 update adds four new open models: Amazon Nova 2 family competes with low prices, new agents

Nvidia’s open VLA reasoning model for self-driving cars. Hugging Face’s Claude skills pack that fine-tunes language models. LangChain’s LangSmith no-code, all-chat agent builder. MCP Blockly, a project for students to build their own MCP servers.

December 5, 20254 min read
DeepSeek’s latest open models rival GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro: Google’s weather prediction model shined in hurricane season
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DeepSeek’s latest open models rival GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro: Google’s weather prediction model shined in hurricane season

The new MCP spec’s updates for security and long task support. Runway’s new video generation model’s improved physics. The impact of Character.AI blocking minors from chat. Antigravity, Google’s agentic IDE that rivals Cursor and Windsurf.

December 1, 20254 min read
Opus 4.5 drops prices, reclaims coding crown: DeepSeek’s new open-weights math model claims IMO Gold
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Opus 4.5 drops prices, reclaims coding crown: DeepSeek’s new open-weights math model claims IMO Gold

FLUX.2, a Nano Banana-class open image generator. OpenAI’s third-party web analytics security breach. Genesis Mission, a new U.S. government resource sharing program. Suno’s latest deal with music giant Warner.

November 28, 20254 min read
Inside Olmo 3, a new family of fully open models: Grok 4.1’s uneasy balance between EQ and sycophancy
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Inside Olmo 3, a new family of fully open models: Grok 4.1’s uneasy balance between EQ and sycophancy

Nano Banana Pro, Google’s updated image generator. Anthropic’s latest partnerships with Microsoft and Nvidia. Memo, a home robot trained on real-life human tasks. A new AI play modeled on legendary French playwright Molière’s work.

November 24, 20255 min read
Meta model detects and segments video objects: Google Gemini 3 wows on benchmark tests and leaderboards
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Meta model detects and segments video objects: Google Gemini 3 wows on benchmark tests and leaderboards

GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, OpenAI’s improved long-context coding model. Music startup Klay’s reported deal with Universal, Warner, and Sony. DeepSeek R1 Slim, a trim, decensored reasoning model. NTT’s Tsuzumi 2, an efficient model optimized for Japan.

November 21, 20255 min read
OpenAI looks inside neural networks: Baidu’s multimodal ERNIE 5.0 arrives, priced to compete
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OpenAI looks inside neural networks: Baidu’s multimodal ERNIE 5.0 arrives, priced to compete

VibeThinker-1.5B, a small but powerful reasoning model. Toymakers’ recall of AI dolls that tell kids how to start fires. Qwen3-Max’s discounts and the latest AI price war. SIMA 2, Google’s self-learning game-playing model.

November 17, 20255 min read
Generating persistent, editable 3D worlds: Exploring the limits of small synthetic datasets
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Generating persistent, editable 3D worlds: Exploring the limits of small synthetic datasets

OpenAI’s GPT-5.1, a more personalizable agentic model. Project FETCH’s use of Claude to program robots. Baidu’s new VL model that tops Gemini Pro and GPT-5. OpenAI liable for copyrighted song lyrics.

November 14, 20255 min read
Meta AI now recognizes 1600 languages: Amazon and Perplexity spar over browser agents
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Meta AI now recognizes 1600 languages: Amazon and Perplexity spar over browser agents

Kimi K2 Thinking, the new top open model. Deep Research’s expansion to personal documents. Terminal-Bench makers’ new agentic benchmark. TSMC’s slowing revenue growth.

November 10, 20255 min read
Training power laws translate to robotics: Amazon builds forecasting model to predict multiple scenarios
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Training power laws translate to robotics: Amazon builds forecasting model to predict multiple scenarios

Stability AI’s limited wins in Getty copyright suit. Kosmos’s new generalist scientific research agent. German Commons, a big open dataset for training AI models. Google’s experiments putting satellites with AI chips in space.

November 7, 20255 min read
OpenAI security agent finds and plugs holes: Cognition’s SWE-1.5 model brings more speed for coding agents
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OpenAI security agent finds and plugs holes: Cognition’s SWE-1.5 model brings more speed for coding agents

Why Gemma’s been pulled from Google’s AI Studio. How Minimax built M2 for better coding performance. A new technique for efficiently training smaller models. arXiv’s new requirements for computer science submissions.

November 3, 20255 min read
Cursor introduces a new model built for agents: Claude models sometimes know they’ve been tampered with
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Cursor introduces a new model built for agents: Claude models sometimes know they’ve been tampered with

GitHub Copilot’s new agentic tools. OpenAI’s new open classification policy model. IBM’s small but powerful Granite Nano models. The state of generative media. A brand-new way to learn from DeepLearning.AI.

October 31, 20255 min read
LeRobot adds support for PI and Nvidia models: Qualcomm squares off with Nvidia in AI inference
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LeRobot adds support for PI and Nvidia models: Qualcomm squares off with Nvidia in AI inference

GitHub Copilot’s new code completion model. OpenAI’s acquisition of a top computer use company. Anthropic’s latest deal for more computing power. Manus’s updated agentic assistant.

October 27, 20254 min read
Atlas ushers in OpenAI’s browser era: DeepSeek’s efficient new OCR model
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Atlas ushers in OpenAI’s browser era: DeepSeek’s efficient new OCR model

Claude Code’s launch on the web and mobile. Reddit’s lawsuit against Perplexity and web-scraping firms. Meta and Hugging Face’s secure environments for agents. GigaBrain’s use of world models to better train robots.

October 24, 20255 min read
Skills remakes Claude with custom instructions: Google’s Veo 3.1 adds native audio and new editing tools
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Skills remakes Claude with custom instructions: Google’s Veo 3.1 adds native audio and new editing tools

Microsoft’s Copilot Voice and Vision for Windows 11. HunyuanImage-3.0, a leaderboard-topping image generator. Adobe’s new plan for custom Firefly models. Ling-1T, an open non-thinking model that shines at reasoning.

October 20, 20254 min read

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