Anthropic suspended access to its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all customers after a US government directive citing a potential jailbreak as a national cybersecurity risk, a move Anthropic d…
Anthropic rolled out its Claude Fable 5 model with a covert policy that silently degraded performance for AI-research-related use cases, then reversed the policy within roughly a day after public back…
Sarah Guo, a prominent AI investor and Cognition backer, published an essay arguing that the most defensible AI companies will be those focused on "untrainable" work—integrating models into messy, pri…
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model at least twice the size of Opus 4.8, with API pricing at roughly 2x Opus and benchmark improvements including a jump from 13.4% to 29.3% on the …
Cognition introduced FrontierCode, a new benchmark that evaluates code on mergeability rather than just unit-test passing, with tasks built by open-source maintainers requiring over 40 hours each. The…
Auriel W, an RL practitioner who has worked at Gemini, warns that low-quality reinforcement learning environments with broken code, race conditions, and caching bugs are systematically ruining model t…
Anthropic published research on recursive self-improvement (RSI) while OpenAI's ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly active users five months behind schedule and announced improved memory features. NVIDI…
Andon Labs co-founders Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund are stress-testing frontier AI models by giving them real-world control over inventory, wallets, and physical storefronts, revealing unexpected…
Reve and Ideogram both launched new image-generation models on June 2, 2026, with each company emphasizing advances in layout control through improved labeling and code. Ideogram 4.0 is now ranked as …
Axiom, a seven-month-old startup, solved all 12 problems on the 2025 Putnam exam, scoring 12/12 within the time limit and outperforming both top undergraduates and other AI systems. The feat demonstra…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella joined the No Priors and Latent Space podcasts for a live crossover episode at Microsoft Build, where he discussed the company's strategy as a "Frontier Intelligence Platfo…
Microsoft announced seven new MAI models at its Build conference, including the flagship MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model built with clean data lineage and no third-party distillation. The company relea…
GitHub COO Kyle Daigle detailed how the platform is adapting to a 1,400% surge in code shipped by AI agents in 2026, which is straining infrastructure originally built for human-paced development. Dai…
NVIDIA launched Cosmos 3, a family of open-weight omnimodal world models using a Mixture-of-Transformers architecture, alongside the Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B open-weight LLM at Computex in Taiwan. The Co…
Ethan He, an engineer at xAI who built Grok Imagine in three months, argued that video models derive their intelligence primarily from large language models rather than video training data, and predic…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, which independent benchmarks show as an incremental improvement with mixed results — better efficiency and less over-agentic behavior in coding, but regressions in …
Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia, and simultaneously released Claude Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Wo…
Cognition co-founder Walden Yan and OpenInspect's Cole Murray discussed the rise of "async agents" — AI coding tools that operate in the background rather than requiring constant developer oversight —…
Cognition raised $1 billion in a Series D funding round that values the company at $26 billion, marking a 2.5x valuation increase from its September Series C. The AI agent lab now projects over $1 bil…
Fireworks AI is in talks to raise a $15 billion valuation round, while Baseten is raising an $11 billion round, marking a rapid progression from unicorn to decacorn status in the AI inference infrastr…