GLM-5.2 is a win for local AI
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 coding agent autonomously debugged a horizontal scrollbar issue in developer Simon Willison's Datasette tool by launching browser automation, building test pages, and patchi…
NVIDIA's Blackwell platform achieved up to 20x more agents per megawatt than the previous generation in the first AgentPerf benchmark, a new test from independent firm Artificial Analysis designed for…
OpenAI is expanding its free Academy platform with three certification tiers designed to validate AI skills for working professionals, with a pilot that began in late 2025 and a companion Jobs Platfor…
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…
Apple expanded its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) to run on Google Cloud using NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, allowing Apple Intelligence features to process heavy AI workloads on third-party hardware while main…