Grok-4.3 defeated Cohere-command-a 36.6 to 30.1 in a head-to-head text task evaluation, winning on precision, compliance, and schema fidelity across four technical tasks. Cohere-command-a won only one…
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, an open-weight AI model that performs within one percentage point of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on agentic benchmarks while costing roughly one-fifth as much, according to CNBC. The c…
Happy Horse 1.1 Image to Video defeated Bytedance Seedance V1.5 Pro Image To Video in a head-to-head test, scoring 15.6 to 15.4. Seedance excelled at preserving prompt details like wardrobe and framin…
Brett Hurt's new book 'Love Conquers Fear: Humanity, AI, and the Age of Abundance for All' argues that fear, not technology, is the primary bottleneck in the AI age. Hurt, a serial Austin founder, cal…
Anthropic is nearing a deal with the Trump administration to lift US export restrictions on its top AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after a June 12 order forced the company to suspend access. Co-foun…
Hightouch is hiring across product and go-to-market functions, including AI-focused roles, after raising $150 million in Series D funding at a $2.75 billion valuation. The company is pivoting from a c…
Nous Research released Mixture of Agents presets as virtual models in Hermes Agent, allowing users to select multi-model workflows like any other model. The company claims its MoA presets outperform i…
METR said Friday that OpenAI provided unusually deep pre-deployment access to GPT-5.6 Sol, but the evaluator could not produce a robust measurement of the model's long-horizon capability because the m…
In a head-to-head test of three image-generation tasks, Fibo outperformed Bagel with a score of 25.5 to 17.4, demonstrating superior prompt adherence and storytelling in assignments including a drumme…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna on June 26, placing the frontier model family into a limited preview after a U.S. government request. The controlled launch gives government visibility and …
Aleph Neuro published a technical analysis of its through-skull ultrasound imaging approach, using microbubbles and localization microscopy to produce high-resolution vascular brain images without ope…
Unconventional AI released Un-0, an image generation model powered by coupled Kuramoto oscillators instead of conventional neural network architectures, publishing code and weights to demonstrate its …
Exponential View estimates generative AI demand-side revenue at $110 billion over the past 12 months, with a recent monthly run rate above $175 billion, based on a deduplicated model that counts end-c…
Reka released CS2-10k, a large-scale dataset and rendering pipeline built from Counter-Strike 2 professional match demos, providing over 10,000 hours of egocentric video with per-frame action annotati…
Happy Horse defeated Bytedance Seedance V1.5 Pro Image To Video in a head-to-head test of image-to-video food scenes, scoring 16.7 to 11.4. Happy Horse won by reliably following prompts for camera mot…
Om Malik, the journalist, GigaOm founder, and True Ventures partner who chronicled the commercial internet from dial-up to AI, died on June 24 at Stanford Hospital at age 59. His family cited a long h…
Naveen Rao's Unconventional AI released Un-0, an open image-generation model built on simulated coupled oscillators, achieving FID 6.74 on ImageNet 64x64. The release is the first public test of the c…
Figure AI's humanoid robot Figure 03 will begin a logistics sequencing job at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, moving parts from the body shop to final assembly. BMW's workforce has declined from a 2024 p…
Notion will shut down Notion Mail on September 22, 2025, pivoting from a standalone email inbox to an agent-driven email management system. The company cited that over half of users manage emails with…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff on June 24 that GPT 5.6 will first be released as a limited preview to a small group of partners because the federal government asked OpenAI to stagger the rollout, ac…