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Every move from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot and the global frontier labs: model launches, research drops, product news.

Every move from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot and the global frontier labs: model launches, research drops, product news.

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Claude Code v2.1.212
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Claude Code v2.1.212

Introducing Grok on Amazon Bedrock
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Introducing Grok on Amazon Bedrock

This post covers what makes Grok 4.3 a great fit for agentic and enterprise workloads, how you access it through Amazon Bedrock, and how to use the capabilities…

Three lessons in accelerating foundation model upgrades
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Three lessons in accelerating foundation model upgrades

Have you run into problems migrating your products from one model to the next? Upgrading to the latest AI models is rarely simple. For engineering teams, model …

Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you
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Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you

1Password has launched a new browser integration for Claude that allows the Anthropic chatbot to access stored security credentials like usernames and passwords…

Claude Code v2.1.211
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.211

Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer
Research

Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer

OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last …

Claude Code v2.1.210
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.210

Google named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Foundation Model Software
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Google named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Foundation Model Software

For years, we’ve built with a clear priority: putting the practical needs of the enterprise first. Long before generative AI dominated the headlines, we were fo…

Claude at scale on Google Cloud: Frontier AI, built for enterprise production
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Claude at scale on Google Cloud: Frontier AI, built for enterprise production

Running frontier AI in production is demanding — accelerators to manage, latency to hold steady across continents, regulated data to keep in-region, and long-co…

How to use GPT-5.6
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How to use GPT-5.6

new desktop app and hosted sites in ChatGPT…

Claude Code v2.1.209
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Claude Code v2.1.209

Claude Code v2.1.208
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.208

OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
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OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

Today, GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna from OpenAI are generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet to Amazon Bedr…

What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show
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What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently th…

Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US
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Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.…

Claude Code v2.1.207
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.207

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.2
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OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.2

Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
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Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that former employees that now work for the AI company have stolen Apple's trade secrets "for the benefit of OpenAI." In its com…

Fine-tune NVIDIA Nemotron 3 models with Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization
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Fine-tune NVIDIA Nemotron 3 models with Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization

In this post, we explore what makes the Nemotron 3 architecture unique, walk through the fine-tuning techniques available, and show you step-by-step how to get …

Claude Code v2.1.206
Agents

Claude Code v2.1.206

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.1
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.1

GPT-5.6 Sol nearly matches Fable 5 on aggregated benchmarks at one-third the cost
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GPT-5.6 Sol nearly matches Fable 5 on aggregated benchmarks at one-third the cost

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol scores 59 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, just one point behind Claude Fable 5. At $1.04 per task, it costs a third o…

Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
Research

Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts

The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer…

OpenAI pairs its GPT-5.6 public rollout with ChatGPT Work, a new agent that handles entire workflows
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OpenAI pairs its GPT-5.6 public rollout with ChatGPT Work, a new agent that handles entire workflows

OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Work, an agent-based product powered by Codex and the now publicly available GPT-5.6. The agent can independently handle complex pro…

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now available in GitHub Copilot
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OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now available in GitHub Copilot

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 family is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. GPT-5.6 comes in three variants, Sol, Terra, and Luna, so you can match the model to the job…

GPT-5.6 is now available in Figma Make
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GPT-5.6 is now available in Figma Make

Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 API pricing squeezes OpenAI and Anthropic as the AI price war heats up
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Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 API pricing squeezes OpenAI and Anthropic as the AI price war heats up

Meta is entering the AI API business with Muse Spark 1.1 at prices that undercut even the dirt-cheap Grok 4.5, released just yesterday. At $4.25 per million out…

Enhancing enterprise inference on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with data capture, Hugging Face, NVMe, and Route 53 integration
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Enhancing enterprise inference on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with data capture, Hugging Face, NVMe, and Route 53 integration

In this post, we walk through five capabilities now available in SageMaker HyperPod inference: multi-tier data capture for auditing and model improvement, direc…

Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications
Research

Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications

Aurora 1.5 adds 22 more variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecasting to the Aurora foundation model, making it more useful for …

OpenAI finds roughly 30 percent of popular AI coding test is broken
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OpenAI finds roughly 30 percent of popular AI coding test is broken

OpenAI reviewed SWE-Bench Pro, a widely used test for measuring AI models' programming skills, and found roughly 30 percent of its tasks are broken. The company…