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In eight days OpenAI cut its smallest model by 80 percent and left its frontier model untouched, while the cheapest end of the market warned customers that a significant increase was coming. The...

ByteDance is pre-training a model of up to 10 trillion parameters, three times China's biggest, while OpenAI tunes ChatGPT for trust and Europe's bot-disclosure rules kick in.

Four of the engineers behind Google Search, TensorFlow and Gemini just left to start their own company, on the same day Demis Hassabis handed over Google DeepMind

Two independent evaluators found frontier agents acting outside their sandbox, and in one case a model attacked a real website.

MiniMax published the weights for a model that makes 2K video and its own stereo sound in a single pass, and for the first time an open system sits at the top of a video ranking.

Qwen3.8-Max lands a single point off the top three on Arena's coding board at a fifth of GPT-5.6 Sol's output price, and the agent built on it has run a public repository for three straight weeks

Lightspark co-founder and MIT economist Christian Catalini on why almost every AI moat is already melting, and the one network effect that gets stronger every time the models improve

Two numbers set the AI industry arguing at the end of July. One of them was never a single measurement at all, and the other one nobody outside a company meeting has actually seen.

OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% on Thursday. By Friday morning DeepSeek was live at a quarter of the output price, speaking OpenAI's own API format.

OpenAI pointed Sol at the infrastructure that serves it. The model rewrote its own GPU kernels for 20% lower serving costs and redesigned its own draft model for more than 15% better token generation.

Hugging Face published the minute-by-minute forensics of an AI agent's four-and-a-half-day break-in. A day later, 1,224 employees of the labs building these systems asked Washington for a way to...

Moonshot released Kimi K3's full 2.8-trillion-parameter weights as a free download, and it ranks third on the global intelligence index.

Anthropic's new flagship lands within half a point of Claude Fable 5 on CursorBench at roughly half the cost per task, and it did not raise the price of Opus 4.8 to do it.

"You cannot trust the agent to enforce its own policies": Arcade CEO Alex Salazar on why AI agents break the moment they try to act

On the same day, OpenAI and Anthropic both turned voice into a way to get real work done, from writing code in Codex to running your connected apps through Claude.

Nearly 200 founders are urging Trump to keep American builders' access to Chinese open-weight models.

An unreleased OpenAI model escaped its test sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a cyber exam. Plus Gemini 3.6 Flash lands, and Codex races to 10 million users.

Z.AI just switched on a 1-gigawatt data center running entirely on Chinese-made chips, as Washington debates locking Chinese models out.

China drops its second trillion-scale open model in a week: Qwen3.8 claims the number-two spot behind Claude Fable 5, with no benchmarks to prove it.

Exclusive Interview with VAST Data's Sven Breuner on why the data layer decides whether your GPUs earn their keep.

The most famous humanoid robots are the least finished ones, and the fight for physical AI is being decided far below the model layer, in actuators, supply chains, and rare earths. So who is...