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
Claude’s Haiku Boasts Top Performance, Fast: Open speech recognition models top new leaderboard
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Claude’s Haiku Boasts Top Performance, Fast: Open speech recognition models top new leaderboard

Alibaba’s small, edge-optimized vision-language models. Microsoft’s new image generator. GitHub’s free kit for spec-driven development. ChatGPT’s new automated memory manager.

October 17, 20254 min read
Figure AI unveils its third-generation robot: Microsoft’s healthcare data partnership with Harvard
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Figure AI unveils its third-generation robot: Microsoft’s healthcare data partnership with Harvard

AI companies’ dominance of global venture funding. Samsung’s 7-million-parameter Tiny Recursion Model. The U.S.–UAE agreement for 500,000 Nvidia GPUs annually. IBM’s embrace of Anthropic’s Claude models for enterprise.

October 13, 20254 min read
OpenAI SDK helps devs build apps in ChatGPT: Zhipu AI’s open competitor to DeepSeek-V3.2 and Sonnet 4
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OpenAI SDK helps devs build apps in ChatGPT: Zhipu AI’s open competitor to DeepSeek-V3.2 and Sonnet 4

Google’s research preview for CodeMender. Anthropic’s Petri, an open framework for automating alignment tests. Music labels near a deal with AI companies. Nano Banana becoming officially production available.

October 6, 20254 min read
DeepSeek 3.2 turns to experimental attention: AI safety bill SB 53 regulates California’s biggest companies
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DeepSeek 3.2 turns to experimental attention: AI safety bill SB 53 regulates California’s biggest companies

Mira Murati’s Tinker’s simplified approach to fine-tuning. OpenAI’s new video model and social app. IBM’s embrace of Mamba for Granite 4.0 models. Perplexity’s AI browser, now free worldwide.

October 3, 20255 min read
Anthropic updates Sonnet, Claude Code, and agentic dev tools: Perplexity builds developer API for its search engine
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Anthropic updates Sonnet, Claude Code, and agentic dev tools: Perplexity builds developer API for its search engine

Two new Gemini robotics that coordinate to learn and act. ChatGPT bringing news and research to you with Pulse. Spotify’s crackdown on AI song impersonation. Microsoft introduces “vibe working” to Office.

September 29, 20254 min read
Meta’s newest world model research project: Google’s Data Commons now available via MCP
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Meta’s newest world model research project: Google’s Data Commons now available via MCP

DeepSeek’s recent model update. SWE-Bench-Pro, a tough new coding benchmark. ChromeDevTools, a new way for agents to control a web browser. Microsoft’s latest move to open up Copilot to more models.

September 26, 20254 min read
Nvidia and OpenAI make a deal: DeepSeek reveals more R1 training details
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Nvidia and OpenAI make a deal: DeepSeek reveals more R1 training details

Anthropic’s latest Claude bug report. How Google is injecting Gemini into Chrome. Research on AI model scheming. Grok-4-Fast, a distilled version of xAI’s top model.

September 22, 20254 min read
GPT-5 gets a Codex-specific model update: A new MCP-style protocol for agentic payments
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GPT-5 gets a Codex-specific model update: A new MCP-style protocol for agentic payments

GitHub’s new MCP server registry. Google and OpenAI’s gold medal achievements at ICPC. VaultGemma, an open, privacy-first language model. How Anthropic’s usage restrictions risk U.S. ire.

September 19, 20254 min read
Qwen pilots new attention mechanisms: Who uses ChatGPT and why? Answers from a new study
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Qwen pilots new attention mechanisms: Who uses ChatGPT and why? Answers from a new study

Replit’s self-testing updates to Agent 3. Stable Audio speeds up custom sounds for enterprise. Google’s plan to spread paid Gemini plans worldwide. Zoox’s unusual robotaxis hit the road in Las Vegas.

September 15, 20254 min read
Claude corners the market on office docs: A path to training AI models on copyrighted music
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Claude corners the market on office docs: A path to training AI models on copyrighted music

Why Anthropic’s books copyright deal is postponed. The U.S. government’s new AI youth safety investigation. Seedream 4.0, Bytedance’s new image model. Jupyter Agent 2, a set of tools for solving data science problems.

September 12, 20254 min read
Anthropic copyright suit settled for $1.5 billion: Why AI models hallucinate and how to fix them
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Anthropic copyright suit settled for $1.5 billion: Why AI models hallucinate and how to fix them

Qwen3-Max, Alibaba’s giant, capable new model. Grok-code-fast, xAI’s new free coding agent. Google’s deals to supply TPUs to other cloud providers. Projects, ChatGPT’s newly free organizational feature.

September 8, 20254 min read

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