Google’s Nano Banana hits the scene: OpenAI’s latest voice-to-voice model
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Google’s Nano Banana hits the scene: OpenAI’s latest voice-to-voice model

Anthropic’s browser use extension preview. Automation hits entry-level workers first. Reinforcement Learning from Checklist Feedback. Authors settle copyright lawsuit over pirated books.

August 29, 20254 min read
Perplexity offers AI news subscription plan: Nvidia Nano 2 employs Mamba for speed
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Perplexity offers AI news subscription plan: Nvidia Nano 2 employs Mamba for speed

Cohere’s new reasoning mode for open-weights Command A. Hacking MCP to turn Claude into an image generator. Google’s new AI deal with the U.S. government. Meta’s partnership with image generator Midjourney.

August 25, 20254 min read
DeepSeek releases a hybrid reasoning model: OpenAI unveils a new subscription plan for India
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DeepSeek releases a hybrid reasoning model: OpenAI unveils a new subscription plan for India

Alibaba’s new text and image editing features. Adobe’s tool to chat with your PDFs and other docs. Browsemaster, a new framework for agentic search. Surya, an IBM/NASA model that predicts solar weather.

August 22, 20254 min read
Tencent’s new hybrid approach to images: Text adventures test models’ memories
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Tencent’s new hybrid approach to images: Text adventures test models’ memories

How to manage multiple Claude Code sessions. Reddit’s standoff with the Internet Archive. A new framework for developing open computer-use agents. Using AI to kill antibiotic-resistant germs.

August 18, 20254 min read
Google’s latest Gemma model is a power-saver: Claude boosts Sonnet 4’s input limits
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Google’s latest Gemma model is a power-saver: Claude boosts Sonnet 4’s input limits

Building a more interpretable robot. OpenAI’s latest gold medal programming performance. Extracting structured data from big texts. Anthropic adds learning modes to Claude Code.

August 15, 20254 min read
GPT-4o is back in ChatGPT: Hugging Face’s take on AI spreadsheets
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GPT-4o is back in ChatGPT: Hugging Face’s take on AI spreadsheets

Kaggle’s new Game Arena model leaderboard. Nvidia’s latest models for robotics simulations. Chipmakers’ unusual revenue deal with the U.S. government. GitHub’s integration into Microsoft’s AI division.

August 11, 20254 min read
OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 has arrived: Claude’s Opus model gets an update
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OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 has arrived: Claude’s Opus model gets an update

Genie 3, Google’s new world model for gaming and robotics. Eleven Music, the voice startup’s entry into music generation. Cogito V2 Preview, four impressive open-weights models. Jules, Google’s coding assistant, now out of beta.

August 8, 20254 min read
Google’s AlphaEarth remakes satellite mapping: Falcon supports many languages on hybrid architecture
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Google’s AlphaEarth remakes satellite mapping: Falcon supports many languages on hybrid architecture

Black Forest Labs and Krea partner on an “opinionated” image model. Aristotle chatbot combines math reasoning with verification. Microsoft adds Copilot Mode to its Edge browser. Energy-Based Transformers offer alternative for unsupervised learning.

August 1, 20254 min read
GLM-4.5’s high-performing, low-cost open model: Google matches (or beats) OpenAI’s math performance
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GLM-4.5’s high-performing, low-cost open model: Google matches (or beats) OpenAI’s math performance

University presses look to lock in AI licensing deals. Unitree’s new, much less expensive humanoid robot. Nvidia adapts CUDA to work with RISC-V chips. AI can predict ancient Latin inscriptions from fragments.

July 28, 20254 min read
Cursor’s BugBot improves vibe debugging: GitHub’s Spark enters AI web app builder market
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Cursor’s BugBot improves vibe debugging: GitHub’s Spark enters AI web app builder market

Google’s new AI tool probes images’ backstories. ChatGPT agent tackles general computer tasks. Amazon buys Bee for another crack at AI wearables. New benchmark measures AI agents’ predictions.

July 25, 20254 min read
OpenAI agentic system places second to human programmer in international coding competition: Pentagon signs $200 million deals with Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI
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OpenAI agentic system places second to human programmer in international coding competition: Pentagon signs $200 million deals with Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI

How Google’s experimental text embedding model achieves top performance on a multilingual embedding benchmark. How AWS Bedrock AgentCore provides infrastructure for enterprise-grade AI agents. How Anthropic’s Claude for Financial Services enables AI-driven financial systems.

July 18, 20254 min read
European CEOs urge 2-year pause in EU AI Act: DeepSeek-TNG-R1T2-Chimera merges DeepSeek LLMs to cut inference cost in half
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European CEOs urge 2-year pause in EU AI Act: DeepSeek-TNG-R1T2-Chimera merges DeepSeek LLMs to cut inference cost in half

How Tencent Hunyuan-A13B offers advanced features and performance in a limited open-weights release. How Alibaba’s Qwen VLo interprets, generates, and alters images. How Hugging Face’s $299–$449 Reachy Mini extends open robotics. How AI saved $500 million at Microsoft.

July 11, 20253 min read
Meta unites its AI teams under Superintelligence Labs: Google tempts developers with a free, open-source Gemini CLI
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Meta unites its AI teams under Superintelligence Labs: Google tempts developers with a free, open-source Gemini CLI

How Baidu’s newly open-sourced Ernie model puts competitive pressure on rivals. How Cloudflare’s new pay-per-crawl service could boost the cost of training data. How HongShan’s periodically updated Xbench gives developers a business-focused test for evaluating models.

July 7, 20253 min read
MiniMax M1 tackles Qwen3, DeepSeek-R1, Claude 4 Opus, and more: Gemini 2.5 models get price changes and a new partner
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MiniMax M1 tackles Qwen3, DeepSeek-R1, Claude 4 Opus, and more: Gemini 2.5 models get price changes and a new partner

Cursor introduces a new-high end subscription. Harvard makes its public-domain books data set widely available. Essential AI introduces its own auto-labeled data set. MIT builds an LLM that can fine-tune itself.

June 20, 20254 min read
Predicting cyclones using neural networks: o3-pro trades speed for accuracy in code, science
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Predicting cyclones using neural networks: o3-pro trades speed for accuracy in code, science

Video game performers’ new AI deal. Meta’s new robotics world model. Mistral’s multilingual reasoning models. An open-source template for research agents.

June 13, 20254 min read

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