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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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Grok x Cursor
More Fable, GPT-5.6 and new ChatGPT voice…
Databricks makes Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 its default coding engine after it matched Opus at lower cost
Databricks benchmarked coding agents on its own multi-million-line codebase and found that the Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 matched Anthropic's Opus 4.8 at…
OpenAI's AI beats every human at AtCoder, a top competitive programming contest
At the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2026, an OpenAI system crushed all human competitors in an exhibition match, solving all five problems in the Algorithm Divisio…
Introducing Claude apps gateway for AWS
Today, we're announcing the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control plane that gives organizations a single point of control over access, cost, and p…
Claude Code v2.1.205
ChatGPT can now listen and talk at the same time, making AI conversations seem more human
OpenAI's GPT-Live can listen and speak at the same time using a full-duplex architecture. Complex questions get handed off to GPT-5.5 in the background, which d…
Grok 4.5 is so cheap compared to Fable 5 and GPT 5.5 that benchmark gaps may not matter much
xAI releases Grok 4.5, trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs. In coding benchmarks, the model trails Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 but needs 4.2 times fewer t…
Mistral enters robotics with Robostral Navigate, an 8B model that steers robots using just one camera
Mistral is entering the robotics market with Robostral Navigate, an 8B model that guides robots through unknown environments using only a single RGB camera. Tra…
Building and connecting a production-ready ecommerce MCP server using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Mistral AI Studio
In this post, you build and connect that server end to end. You will implement MCP tools, set up two-layer JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication, deploy with AWS …
Anthropic's fix for Fable 5's high cost is turning it into a manager that delegates to Sonnet 5
Anthropic recommends using the expensive Claude Fable 5 mainly as a planner for smaller models instead of running it on every task. Combined with Sonnet 5 in th…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 dominates new industry benchmarks at a steep premium
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 tops all six new industry-specific performance indices from Artificial Analysis, covering finance, law, and medicine. But that lead c…
Google Deepmind adds background execution and MCP support to Gemini API managed agents
Google Deepmind is adding four new features to Managed Agents in the Gemini API. Agents can now run asynchronously in the background, connect directly to remote…
Chinese AI startup MiniMax plans to open-source a 2.7 trillion parameter model later this year
Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters. MiniMax plans to release the model as open source. The artic…
Muse Image is technically impressive, but Meta's use of Instagram photos raises questions
Meta's Superintelligence Labs ships Muse Image, its first image generation model. Like OpenAI's GPT Image 2, it works as an agent, using tools like code executi…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launches Thursday after a delay forced by the U.S. government
OpenAI is launching GPT-5.6 on Thursday after the U.S. government lifted its release ban following additional testing. Binding standards for future model approv…
Kimi K2.7 now available for Copilot Business and Enterprise
On July 1, 2026, we announced Kimi K2.7 would be available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max plans. The model is now additionally available on Copilot Business and …
Claude Code v2.1.204
Claude Code v2.1.203
Copilot goes cheap as Microsoft phases out OpenAI and Anthropic models to cut costs
Microsoft is replacing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook. Tens of thousands of queries per week alr…
Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI agent is now available on mobile and web
Anthropic is rolling out its AI agent Claude Cowork to mobile and web. Until now, the feature was limited to the desktop app. The agent keeps working in the bac…
Cohere Transcribe Arabic is an open-source model built for Arabic's toughest transcription problems
Cohere has released Transcribe Arabic, an open-source model for Arabic speech recognition that the company says outperforms Whisper and OmniASR on dialects, cod…
Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents
... government of the people, by the people, for the people ... — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dro…
A developer's guide to publishing agents in Gemini Enterprise and Google Cloud Marketplace
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is evolving into Agents-as-a-service (AaaS). Instead of isolated applications, developers are creating AI agents that interoperate …
Claude's hidden inner monologue is now readable thanks to Anthropic's new Jacobian Lens
Anthropic has found that Claude developed an internal working memory on its own during training. The company calls it "J-Space" and can now read it using a new …
Chinese AI models regularly pass 30 percent on OpenRouter as cost gap widens
Chinese AI models are gaining ground with US companies because they cost far less than systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, CNBC reports. The article Chinese AI m…
OpenAI and Anthropic are giving away millions in computing power to attract startups
OpenAI, Anthropic, and major cloud providers are racing to outbid each other with free compute credits to pull startups into their ecosystems. Some individual o…
Deepseek is designing its own AI chip
Chinese startup Deepseek is building its own AI chip, Reuters reports. The article Deepseek is designing its own AI chip appeared first on The Decoder.…
OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.0
From Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one click
Today, we’re excited to announce a deep-link integration between Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker AI. Developers can now go from model discovery to hands-on ex…