Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3 Action, an open robotics AI model that uses camera feeds to predict a robot's next action. With 7 billion parameters, FLUX 3 Action sets a record on the RoboLab-120 b…
Epoch AI measures AI performance costs falling about 13x per year, while MIT puts annual algorithmic progress at roughly 3x after stripping out hardware gains and competition, according to The Decoder…
Meta expanded its Muse AI agent at Meta Connect 2026 with real-time video chats using customizable avatars, dedicated email addresses, and the ability to control Mac apps, with Muse coming to Meta's s…
OpenAI updated ChatGPT Voice to run on its new GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna models and to connect to plugins including email, calendar, and Slack, letting users manage appointments, send emails, or buil…
Google introduced two text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, which support more than 100 languages. Flash TTS can generate new voices from text descriptions, and both models a…
YouTube is rolling out new AI tools in YouTube Studio, including a storytelling assistant that analyzes scripts and rough cuts to suggest changes to pacing, structure, and storytelling, plus A/B testi…
Anthropic engineer Jackson Kernion said newer Claude models write worse for humans because optimization for math, code and technical explanations aimed at other AI models produces "overly-dense info d…
Meta's AI agent Muse gained more than 500,000 users in its first week and reached number one on Apple's App Store, while Meta acknowledged the product is "heavily inspired" by the open-source project …
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1, a lineup of five models spanning speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and real-time interaction, and cut AI audio prices by up to 95 percent. Th…
OpenAI has hired Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead a new Creator Product division, with Yam bringing two Patreon executives with him after more than 13 years at the creator platform. The team will bu…
OpenAI released two cheaper models, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, that match their predecessors' performance at half the token price, according to The Decoder. Independent analyses found little gain in ac…
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in a new generation, which the company says matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks while costing about 40 percent less to run than Opus 5. Anthropic…
OpenAI is calling for international standards governing recursive self-improvement, the process by which AI systems independently build the next generation of AI, warning that without safeguards human…
The Biological Computing Co. is seeking a partnership with AWS to sell a text-to-video model that it claims runs five times faster and 80 percent cheaper using a software layer derived from lab-grown …
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro has taken the top spot among openly available AI models while drastically undercutting competitors on price, built on massive reinforcement learning that cost $2.62 million, acc…
OpenAI says an internal model solved more than 100 open math problems after just a month of training, and the company is backing an independent advisory group at the Institute for Advanced Study amid …
Anthropic is building a biology lab in the San Francisco area where its Claude model will guide robots through drug experiments with minimal human involvement, Reuters reported. The lab builds on Anth…
The UN's AI science panel warned in its first thematic report that there is "no assurance humans will keep control" over AI agents, according to co-chair Yoshua Bengio. Bengio said OpenAI's Hugging Fa…
XAI released Grok 4.7, its most capable model yet, but the model scores 46 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, trailing Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6, which each score 53. The benchmark…
ByteDance launched Dramagic, an AI platform that handles the entire short drama production pipeline from script to video preview. In Q1 2026 alone, 128,000 short dramas were released in China, 95 perc…