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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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Our new community investments in Virginia support local jobs and expand energy affordability.
Labs

Our new community investments in Virginia support local jobs and expand energy affordability.

We’re helping build the state’s next-generation workforce and investing in energy programs.…

How Preply combines AI and human tutors to personalize learning
Labs

How Preply combines AI and human tutors to personalize learning

Preply uses OpenAI to launch AI-generated lesson summaries, providing personalised feedback and language learning exercises.…

Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies
Briefing

Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies

Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.…

Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it
Briefing

Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it

In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the comp…

The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over
Briefing

The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over

At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had pr…

Claude Code v2.1.278
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Claude Code v2.1.278

Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
Briefing

Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments

AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.…

Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?
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Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?

Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.…

A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
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A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers

Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.…

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Claude Code v2.1.277

Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock
Practice

Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock

Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is now available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you a powerful new open-weight option for coding and knowledge work. It offers native vision…

Changing the game: How Google uses agentic AI to secure hundreds of millions of lines of code
Practice

Changing the game: How Google uses agentic AI to secure hundreds of millions of lines of code

AI is accelerating software development at an unprecedented pace. But as code generation scales, so do the challenges of securing the code, especially emerging …

Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI
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Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI

A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Cl…

Deploy Hugging Face models on Amazon SageMaker AI with coding agents
Practice

Deploy Hugging Face models on Amazon SageMaker AI with coding agents

Deploy production-ready Hugging Face models on Amazon SageMaker AI using six open-source agent skills. Point a coding agent at a model and get back a real-time …

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Claude Code v2.1.276

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.22.3
Agents

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.22.3

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Claude Code v2.1.275

Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
Briefing

Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse

Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about A…

Inside the suddenly explosive world of AI safety
Briefing

Inside the suddenly explosive world of AI safety

On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country's top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked building. They had come togeth…

Snap is launching a new Specs AI tool, and it’s coming to iOS and Mac
Briefing

Snap is launching a new Specs AI tool, and it’s coming to iOS and Mac

Snap is introducing "Specs Intelligence," a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track o…

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Claude Code v2.1.274

Fault tolerant distributed training on Amazon EKS using NVRx
Practice

Fault tolerant distributed training on Amazon EKS using NVRx

Integrate NVIDIA Resiliency Extension (NVRx) into PyTorch FSDP training on Amazon EKS to overlap checkpoint I/O with training and recover from GPU faults in sec…

Claude comes for Gemini with its own take on Docs and Slides
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Claude comes for Gemini with its own take on Docs and Slides

Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides. They'll let you create documents and presentations through Claude chats, which you can export, edi…

A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation
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A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation

Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it's time to make everyone slow down before we lose co…

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Claude Code v2.1.273

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Claude Code v2.1.271

The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?
Research

The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?

This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO o…

AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues
Research

AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues

A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavi…

OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May
Briefing

OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May

In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that…

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Claude Code v2.1.270