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
Swiss model Apertus discloses code, datasets: AI content labels now mandatory on Chinese platforms
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Swiss model Apertus discloses code, datasets: AI content labels now mandatory on Chinese platforms

Hermes, a model trained to reason and follow instructions. Tencent’s new explorable 3D world framework. OpenAI’s new jobs and certification programs. Warner Bros’s lawsuit against Midjourney.

September 5, 20254 min read
Microsoft’s first MAI foundation models: Latam-GPT, an LLM optimized with regional data
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Microsoft’s first MAI foundation models: Latam-GPT, an LLM optimized with regional data

Anthropic and OpenAI’s audits of each others’ models. Claude’s opt-out training data policies. ChatGPT’s responses to mental health crises. Alibaba’s new AI inference chip.

September 1, 20254 min read
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

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