A new open-source AI assistant stack combining the Hermes agent and MiniMax-M3 model on Nous Portal costs under £50 per month and can automate tasks like market briefings, inbox triage, lead research,…
NVIDIA featured Eco Wave Power, an Israeli-Swedish wave energy company, in a blog post arguing that AI's next bottleneck is power infrastructure, not chips. The company's grid-connected wave stations,…
Artificial Analysis released AA-Briefcase, a new agentic benchmark for long-horizon knowledge work, on June 18, 2026. Claude Fable 5 leads the leaderboard with 1587 Elo at $31 per task, while open-wei…
A two-year Claude subscriber outside the US had his account suspended on June 17, likely due to his use of the Fable 5 model, which Anthropic was ordered by the US government to disable for foreign na…
Chinese lab Zhipu's commercial arm Z.AI released GLM-5.2, a 753-billion-parameter open-source language model with a 1-million-token context window, on June 17. The model achieves near-frontier perform…
A research team from CUHK Shenzhen and Tencent's Hunyuan released GameCraft-Bench, a benchmark testing AI coding agents on building complete, playable games in the Godot engine. The top agent, Claude …
Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2, an open-weights model under MIT license that scores 74.4% on FrontierSWE, beating OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and trailing Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 by one point at roughly a sixth o…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and a cheaper MiniMax-M3 agent, named Hermes, built and now run a news site autonomously, with a human setting direction and a git repository providing an audit trail. The f…
OpenRouter launched Fusion, a routing layer that sends a single prompt to multiple AI models in parallel and synthesizes their outputs, achieving performance comparable to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 a…
AWS published a tutorial on June 9 for building an incident triage agent using Amazon Quick, New Relic, and Asana. The agent investigates alerts, drafts root-cause analysis briefs, and files tracked t…
ASUS reportedly unveiled the ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3, a tower PC built around NVIDIA's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra desktop superchip, offering 20 PFLOPS of AI throughput and a large unified memory …
Salesforce agreed to acquire Fin, formerly Intercom, for $3.6 billion in the largest deal ever for an Irish-founded tech firm. The AI customer-service agent company will bolster Salesforce's Agentforc…
Google Cloud released an open standard called the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) on June 12, 2026, to standardize how AI agents access and update contextual knowledge. The vendor-neutral format aims to s…
The US government ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12, 2026, citing a jailbreak risk that critics say is actually a routine defensive capabilit…
Developer launches Trace Commons, a community effort to collect coding-agent sessions from tools like Claude Code and Codex under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, aiming to create an open d…
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550-billion-parameter open-weights reasoning model, on June 4, 2026. It is the best US open model by Artificial Analysis's scoring but trails Chinese leader Kimi K2…
NVIDIA released a bundle of physical AI agent skills at CVPR 2026, offering pre-packaged workflows for robots, self-driving cars, and visual inspection. The open-source tools aim to streamline researc…
Amazon Web Services and OpenAI announced the general availability of OpenAI's frontier models, including GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4, on Amazon Bedrock as of June 1, 2026. The integration also brings OpenAI's…
The US government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12, 2026, citing national-security export controls. The directive bars access by any foreign nationa…
David Sacks, former AI and crypto czar for the Trump administration, detailed the government's account of why it forced Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, citing a jailbreak that expos…