Labs

Claude Code v2.1.191

Snowflake CEO finds GLM-5.2 competitive with Opus 4.7 at a fraction of the cost

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nearly matches Claude Opus 4.7 in a Snowflake benchmark with 103 coding tasks at one-fifth the cost per output token. But the Chinese model b…

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil "Jalapeño," a custom chip built for LLM inference

OpenAI is adding custom hardware to its tech stack. The "Jalapeño" chip, developed with Broadcom, is tailored for large language model inference and is set to r…

OpenAI's deployment chief on Codex growth, falling AI prices, and the ROI question

OpenAI deployment chief Arnaud Fournier explains in an interview how DeployCo wants to embed AI deep inside large corporations using its own engineers. He talks…

Mistral's new OCR model beats competitors in 72 percent of blind test cases, company says

Mistral AI has released OCR 4, a new model that reads text from documents like PDFs, Word files, and PowerPoint presentations. The article Mistral's new OC…

Claude Tag embeds Anthropic's AI in Slack, already writes 65 percent of internal code, company says

Claude Tag lets teams bring Anthropic's AI into Slack by tagging @Claude in any channel and assigning it tasks. Internally, the tool already generates 65 percen…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.17.7

Themis: An explainable AI-enabled framework for Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback

Training safe Reinforcement Learning (RL) systems is inherently challenging, with no guarantee of avoiding unwanted behaviors. The most effective defenses again…

GitHub Copilot app support for BYOK

The GitHub Copilot app now supports bring your own key (BYOK), so you can run agent sessions against your own model providers, including OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, M…

Claude Code v2.1.187

OpenAI says new GPT-5.5-Cyber outperforms Anthropic's Mythos on cybersecurity benchmark

OpenAI is expanding its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative with an updated Codex Security plugin, the full GPT-5.5-Cyber model, and a partner network with more t…

IPO Finance Agent: Evaluation of LLM Financial Analysts beyond Finance Agent v2, with Automated Rubric Generation -- the Case of the SpaceX (SPCX) IPO

Finance Agent v2 (by Vals AI) has emerged as the reference benchmark for evaluating both Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT frontier language models on financi…

Minimax Quantile Lower Bounds for Interactive Statistical Decision Making with Privacy

Minimax risk and regret are expectation-based criteria and do not capture rare but consequential failures. To address this concern, we develop a $δ$-explicit mi…

Claude Code v2.1.186

Anthropic and Micron want to co-design AI memory architecture

Micron is investing in Anthropic's Series H round and getting a multi-year deal to supply memory for Claude's infrastructure. Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown cal…

Google makes Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents

Google Deepmind has made the Interactions API the default interface for Gemini models and agents. It replaces the old generateContent API and uses a simplified …

New features and Claude as agent provider preview in JetBrains IDEs

This update adds support for organization and enterprise agents from GitHub, lets you queue and steer messages in Copilot CLI sessions, introduces a new agent d…

Getty Images strikes multi-year deal to put licensed photos in ChatGPT search

Getty Images has entered into a multi-year licensing agreement with OpenAI. The article Getty Images strikes multi-year deal to put licensed photos in ChatGPT s…

Google Deepmind and A24 team up on AI filmmaking research

Google Deepmind and film studio A24 are entering a long-term research partnership. Google is also investing roughly $75 million in A24, according to the Wall St…

GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents

A capability threshold I've been carefully monitoring.…

Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees in South Korea

Samsung Electronics is deploying ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all employees in South Korea and everyone in its Device eXperience (DX) division worldwide. The…

Sakana AI's Fugu orchestrates multiple LLMs to match Anthropic's Fable and Mythos benchmarks

Japanese AI startup Sakana AI is launching Fugu, a system that coordinates multiple AI models on the fly to compete with leaders like Anthropic's Fable 5. The a…

AI is inflating student grades, and the effect points to outsourced work, not better learning

A UC Berkeley study of more than 500,000 grades found that courses heavy on writing and coding saw grades jump after ChatGPT launched. The effect shows up mainl…

Sam Altman says a whole generation of researchers held AI back by underestimating what scaling could do

At a Stanford talk, Sam Altman defended LLM scaling and hit back at skeptics, saying a whole generation of researchers slowed the field by underestimating what …

Claude Code v2.1.185

OpenAI's Codex can now watch you work once and repeat the task forever

OpenAI has released the "Record & Replay" feature for its Codex app on macOS: users demonstrate a workflow once, Codex converts it into a reusable "skill,"…

OpenAI tripled revenue to $5.7 billion in Q1 but burned through $3.7 billion to get there

In the first quarter of 2026, OpenAI pulled in $5.7 billion in revenue and burned through about $3.7 billion, both figures tripled year over year. Stock-based c…

ChatGPT keeps creeping toward becoming your AI personal assistant with new scheduled task controls

OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPT's scheduling feature. A new "Scheduled" page in the sidebar puts all active tasks in one place, letting users view, pause, edit, or …

Amazon drops its OpenAI drama film after signing a $50 billion deal with Sam Altman's company

Amazon MGM Studios has dropped "Artificial," the nearly finished OpenAI film directed by Luca Guadagnino with Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman. Amazon struck a $50…

Google Deepmind loses another top AI researcher as Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves for Anthropic

Nobel Prize winner John Jumper is leaving Google Deepmind for Anthropic after nearly nine years. Days earlier, Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI. Week…