The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to lift export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI model tonight, according to a senior White House official. The controls were imposed three days after …
Fibo Bbq Preview defeated AuraFlow 23.9 to 19.8 in a head-to-head image generation test, winning on prompt adherence and precision. AuraFlow excelled in expressive, cinematic scenes but failed on tech…
Google has begun beta-testing Gmail Live, a Gemini-powered voice interface for Gmail that allows users to search their inbox using natural language instead of typed queries. The feature, announced at …
Etched emerged from stealth with a working chip, $800 million raised, and over $1 billion in signed customer contracts, pivoting from a transformer-specialized ASIC to a full-stack inference systems c…
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash to developers on June 30, offering a fast, low-cost image model and a video editing model via Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. The launch t…
An unconfirmed leak on X claims Anthropic will release Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30 with a promotional API price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, a 1 million token conte…
A developer claims Anthropic's Claude Code CLI tool secretly encodes China-related proxy signals into system prompts sent to its AI model, potentially creating a covert classification channel. The all…
DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.0, an open-source family of coding models that learn to build their own task scaffolds, moving intelligence from the surrounding harness into the model itself. The mode…
In a head-to-head comparison, xAI's grok-4.3 outperformed Meta's Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct with a score of 38.0 to 26.0 across four text tasks, primarily due to grok-4.3's superior ability to follow form…
Omnea founder Ben Freeman is launching the Omnea Future Founders Fund with Firedrop, offering employees who complete five years at the procurement AI startup $250,000 to start their next company. The …
Robert Scoble is turning his curated lists of 13,000 AI founders into a paid intelligence product called Scobleizer, powered by Aligned News. The product uses Scoble's hand-curated X lists and AI to p…
Meituan's LongCat team released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts AI model trained entirely on domestic AI ASICs, claiming it as China's largest model trained on home-grown hard…
Base44 founder Maor Shlomo launched Base 1, a proprietary AI model for the Wix-owned app-building platform, aiming to reduce dependence on external model vendors and gain more control over costs and d…
Meta ran a contractor project that had workers pose as minors and test rival chatbots with prompts about suicide, sex, eating disorders, and drugs, according to WIRED. The project, known as Cannes and…
Sazabi, an AI-native observability startup founded by former Brex and Crunchbase engineer Sherwood Callaway, raised an $8 million seed round co-led by J2 Ventures, Village Global, and Y Combinator. Th…
ByteDance's Seedance 2 Image to Video outperformed its predecessor Seedance V1.5 Pro in a head-to-head comparison, scoring 15.1 to 12.7. Seedance 2 demonstrated superior cinematic intent, shot grammar…
Spotify's VP of engineering Niklas Gustavsson revealed that the company ships 4,500 deploys daily and 73% of pull requests are AI-assisted, using Claude coding agents across a 20-million-line codebase…
AuraFlow and Fibo image models were tested head-to-head on three architectural prompts. Fibo won the matchup with a score of 22.0 to AuraFlow's 21.1, demonstrating superior obedience to geometric and …
Quesma engineer Piotr Migdal tested Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 27B model for local development and concluded it is viable for coding and general-purpose tasks, shifting the threshold for when developers shoul…
Former Google engineering leader Hugh Williams used Anthropic's Claude Code to build Zettair, a search engine indexing 1.5 million Wikipedia articles, while writing zero lines of code himself. The pro…