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AMD Bought a Company That Etches the Model Into the Chip
Taalas builds silicon with the model weights burned in at manufacture. The performance case is strong and the bet undern...
Anthropic Says Claude Models Breached Three Companies in Cyber Tests, and the Three Reacted Differently
A misconfigured evaluation environment left three Claude models with live internet access. Anthropic reviewed 141,006 ru...
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OpenAI Says Its Own Test Models Breached Hugging Face — While Trying to Cheat a Benchmark
Hugging Face disclosed an autonomous intrusion on 16 July and said it did not know what powered it. Five days later Open...
Nvidia Assembles Fifty-Plus Firms Behind Open AI Security — Without OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or Meta
The Open Secure AI Alliance launched on 27 July arguing defenders need open frontier models alongside closed ones. Its f...
Kimi K3's Weights Are Free — the 1,561 GB You Need to Hold Them Are Not
Moonshot published 2.8 trillion parameters on 27 July. We summed all 96 shards: the file sizes independently corroborate...
DeepSeek Retired Its Legacy Endpoints — the Migration Is Free, the Headline Price Is Not
Both retired model names resolved to V4-Flash, so a like-for-like migration costs nothing. The number worth checking is...
Google Cut Gemini Flash’s Output Price by a Sixth — the Compounding Claim Is Bigger
Gemini 3.6 Flash drops output pricing to US$7.50 per million while input stays put. Paired with a claimed 17% cut in out...
Claude Opus 5 Arrives at Half Fable 5’s Price — We Ran the Numbers on 11 Frontier Models
Anthropic’s new flagship lands at exactly half Fable 5’s per-token price, unchanged from Opus 4.8. We computed blended c...
Singapore Refreshes Its National AI Strategy: 10 Priorities, Four Missions, and a Bet Against a Two-Speed Economy
Singapore's 20 May update to its National AI Strategy refreshes the priorities across its 10 enablers, adds four sector...
Singapore's Regulator Just Opened the GenAI Data Question — Founders Should Read That as a Signal, Not Wait for the Fine Print
On 2 June 2026 the PDPC opened a public consultation — closing 1 July 2026 — on proposed guidelines for using personal d...
Cognition raises US$1 billion at a US$26 billion valuation as Devin clears US$492 million in revenue
The maker of the AI software engineer Devin has raised US$1 billion, valuing the company at US$26 billion after the mone...
Baseten is in talks to raise US$1 billion at an US$11 billion valuation as inference money keeps flowing
Baseten, which rents Nvidia servers to companies running AI models, is in talks to raise US$1 billion at an US$11 billio...
Viktor raises US$75 million to put an AI "coworker" inside Slack and Teams
A Warsaw-built startup called Viktor has raised US$75 million from Accel to grow an AI agent that lives inside Slack and...
Waymo's newest robotaxi is Chinese-built, and it is already picking up riders
Waymo has started letting select riders into its next robotaxi, a minivan-style vehicle built on a Zeekr chassis from Ch...
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 Six Weeks After 4.7 — Better Coding, Same Price, and a Pitch Built on Honesty
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on 28 May 2026, about six weeks after Opus 4.7. The headline numbers are incremental...
Pope Leo XIV's First Encyclical Tells the World to Slow Down on AI
In his first encyclical, released 25 May 2026, Pope Leo XIV devotes the founding text of his papacy largely to artificia...
xAI Pre-Announces Grok 5 with Reasoning Scores Above GPT-5.5 — Free for X Premium Subscribers
Elon Musk's xAI confirmed Grok 5 ships in June with GPQA Diamond scores above GPT-5.5 and a deeper reasoning mode the te...
Mistral Large 3 Lands with Native Multimodal — Europe's Frontier Bet Now Reads Images and Listens
Mistral AI shipped Large 3 on Monday with native vision and audio inputs, locking in pricing 40% below GPT-5.5 and Claud...
Anthropic Launches Claude for Small Business — Seven Tools, Fifteen Workflows, US Only
On 13 May 2026 Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business: a packaged set of pre-built connectors and ready-to-run wor...
SubQ Ships First Commercial Subquadratic LLM with a Native 12M-Token Context
A new startup called Subquadratic launched SubQ 1M-Preview on 5 May 2026 with $29 million in seed funding and a claim th...
OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant the Default Across ChatGPT — Speed, Not Scores
On 5 May 2026 OpenAI swapped GPT-5.5 Instant in as the default model for ChatGPT free and paid tiers, replacing GPT-5.3...
Meta's V-JEPA 2 Lands as Yann LeCun's Bet Against LLM-Only AGI Gets Its Strongest Demo Yet
Meta released V-JEPA 2, a self-supervised video world model that Yann LeCun says shows the predictive understanding LLMs...
Google Readies New Gemini Model for I/O 2026 — Positioned to Match GPT-5.5 as Android AI Backbone
A fresh Gemini model is expected to be unveiled at I/O on 20 May, roughly tier-matching OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and arriving as...
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