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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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OpenAI researchers show small doses of "beneficial trait" training make AI models broadly safer and harder to manipulate
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OpenAI researchers show small doses of "beneficial trait" training make AI models broadly safer and harder to manipulate

OpenAI researchers show that reinforcement learning on desired behavioral traits like truthfulness and corrigibility works across domains. Training on health da…

Website "In the Weights" shows whether AI models know who you are
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Website "In the Weights" shows whether AI models know who you are

Two former OpenAI employees have built a website called "In the Weights" that reveals which people AI models can recall purely from their training data. A stren…

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.17.6
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OpenAI Agents SDK v0.17.6

Claude Code v2.1.183
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Claude Code v2.1.183

Alleged China ties at SK Telecom alarmed US officials and triggered Anthropic crisis
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Alleged China ties at SK Telecom alarmed US officials and triggered Anthropic crisis

SK Telecom had access to Anthropic's AI model Claude Mythos through the company's partner program Project Glasswing until the White House stepped in. US officia…

Anthropic brings Artifacts to Claude Code, letting teams share live pages from coding sessions
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Anthropic brings Artifacts to Claude Code, letting teams share live pages from coding sessions

Claude Code can now turn work results into interactive web pages called "artifacts" and share them with your team. The pages pull from the full session context,…

ChatGPT's new health upgrade beats doctor-written answers, OpenAI says
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ChatGPT's new health upgrade beats doctor-written answers, OpenAI says

OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT's healthcare capabilities with GPT-5.5 Instant. In the company's own comparative tests, the model now outscores answers written by d…

Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents like rogue employees with office keys
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Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents like rogue employees with office keys

Google Deepmind treats its own AI agents as potential insider threats. The company's new "AI Control Roadmap" ties security measures to measurable AI capabiliti…

Adobe adds AI agents to Photoshop, Premiere, and more Creative Cloud apps
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Adobe adds AI agents to Photoshop, Premiere, and more Creative Cloud apps

Adobe is rolling out its "creative agent" across its main Creative Cloud apps and third-party AI platforms like ChatGPT and Claude. Users describe what they wan…

Yann LeCun warns AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic face a "big bubble explosion"
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Yann LeCun warns AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic face a "big bubble explosion"

According to Yann LeCun, AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are heading for a "big bubble explosion": Their operations are effectively subsidized by investors, a…

SenFlow: Inter-Sentence Flow Modeling for AI-Generated Text Detection in Hybrid Documents
Research

SenFlow: Inter-Sentence Flow Modeling for AI-Generated Text Detection in Hybrid Documents

Sentence-level AI-generated text detection (S-AGTD) for hybrid documents, where humans and LLMs co-author one text, faces two gaps: existing methods classify ea…

Reference-Driven Multi-Speaker Audio Scene Generation from In-the-Wild Priors
Research

Reference-Driven Multi-Speaker Audio Scene Generation from In-the-Wild Priors

Existing multi-speaker dialogue systems bind speakers to utterances through structured supervision: per-turn tags, multi-stream transcriptions, or learnable spe…

Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after two-year return stint
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Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI after two-year return stint

Noam Shazeer, co-author of the landmark "Attention Is All You Need" paper and former co-lead of Google's Gemini models, is joining OpenAI. He only returned to G…

Claude Code v2.1.181
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Claude Code v2.1.181

Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD bet $310 million on AI startup building 3D world models
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Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD bet $310 million on AI startup building 3D world models

Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD are putting $310 million into world model startup Odyssey ML, now valued at $1.45 billion. CIA-linked fund IQT and Google chief scientis…

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 closes in on closed-source leaders in coding marathons
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Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 closes in on closed-source leaders in coding marathons

Chinese AI lab Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.2 with a stable 1-million-token context under the MIT license. On FrontierSWE, a benchmark for hours-long coding tasks, t…

Nvidia research shows robots that train themselves through AI coding agents
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Nvidia research shows robots that train themselves through AI coding agents

Researchers from Nvidia, Carnegie Mellon University, and UC Berkeley are using AI coding agents to teach robots dexterous grasping in the real world. A fleet of…

OpenAI researchers want to predict how often AI models will fail before launch
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OpenAI researchers want to predict how often AI models will fail before launch

OpenAI researchers propose a method for predicting how often a new AI model will make mistakes after release. It could fill gaps left by standard safety testing…

From AI potential to agentic reality: Driving the UK’s next chapter
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From AI potential to agentic reality: Driving the UK’s next chapter

The United Kingdom, and London in particular, continues to be one of the great hubs for AI development in Europe and the world. We’re home to Google DeepMind, o…

Claude Code v2.1.179
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Claude Code v2.1.179

Microsoft's Copilot Cowork moves to usage-based billing and may tap DeepSeek
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Microsoft's Copilot Cowork moves to usage-based billing and may tap DeepSeek

Microsoft is weighing a fine-tuned version of Deepseek V4 as a cheaper model option for Copilot Cowork. The company is also switching to usage-based billing, si…

SpaceX bets $60 billion on Cursor to catch OpenAI and Anthropic
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SpaceX bets $60 billion on Cursor to catch OpenAI and Anthropic

Just two trading days after its IPO, Elon Musk's SpaceX is buying AI coding startup Anysphere. The deal is meant to help the struggling xAI division catch up wi…

DOJ invokes national security to defend xAI's unpermitted gas turbines in NAACP lawsuit
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DOJ invokes national security to defend xAI's unpermitted gas turbines in NAACP lawsuit

US Justice Department calls xAI's chatbot Grok essential to military operations, defending its controversial gas turbines. The article DOJ invokes national secu…

DeepSeek takes outside money for the first time at a $50 billion valuation
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DeepSeek takes outside money for the first time at a $50 billion valuation

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has raised more than 50 billion yuan - about $7.4 billion - in its first external funding round. The article DeepSeek takes outside …

Anthropic backs off unpopular billing overhaul as price war with OpenAI looms
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Anthropic backs off unpopular billing overhaul as price war with OpenAI looms

Anthropic has pulled back its planned billing change for the Claude Agent SDK just before launch. Instead of separate credits, the SDK and third-party apps will…

OpenAI burned through $34 billion last year
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OpenAI burned through $34 billion last year

OpenAI spent $34 billion in the past year, far more than the year before. The article OpenAI burned through $34 billion last year appeared first on The Decoder.…

Introducing Gemma 4 models on Amazon Bedrock
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Introducing Gemma 4 models on Amazon Bedrock

Today, we are announcing the availability of the Gemma 4 family on Amazon Bedrock. Built by Google DeepMind and released under the Apache 2.0 license, Gemma 4 i…

Claude Code v2.1.178
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Claude Code v2.1.178

The US government may be asking Anthropic the impossible by demanding unhackable LLMs
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The US government may be asking Anthropic the impossible by demanding unhackable LLMs

Government officials accuse Anthropic of disregarding Trump's cyber directive and releasing Fable 5 without approval. "They screwed us," one administration offi…

Nvidia joins AI debt boom with $20 billion bond sale
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Nvidia joins AI debt boom with $20 billion bond sale

Nvidia wants to raise at least $20 billion through its first bond sale since 2021, Bloomberg reports, citing people with direct knowledge of the deal. The artic…