Large language model (LLM) news — GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral and the latest research on training, fine-tuning, RLHF, and deployment of LLMs.
Google LLC launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which the company calls its most advanced voice processing models to date, designed to cut the latency of voice-based AI agents. The models suppo…
A head-to-head test of DeepSeek-Coder-V2 against GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet found DeepSeek-Coder-V2 solved complex algorithmic tasks on the first try where GPT-4o hallucinated non-existent library methods, and identifi…
HP announced the ZBook Ultra G3a 16, a 16-inch mobile workstation that pairs an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 with 192GB of LPDDR5X-8533 unified memory, up to 160GB of which can be assigned to the integrated Radeon 8065S GPU…
A developer released refactor-like-hermes, a Codex subagent workflow for refactoring large software projects, distilled from lessons learned during Nous Research's Hermes Agent refactor. The approach treats refactoring a…
A 95-word agreement prompt grounded in honesty and integrity reduced observed chess reward hacking in Astra from 3/10 baseline agents to 0/10 agreement agents, according to a September 15, 2026 field-notes pilot. The aut…
DeepSeek Coder V2 generally outperforms Claude 3.5 Sonnet on raw algorithmic logic, according to a first-person comparison of LeetCode-style benchmarks and custom logic puzzles, while Claude 3.5 Sonnet proved more reliab…
Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new speech-to-speech models that mirror the shape of OpenAI's GPT-Live family. Developer Simon Willison used GPT-6 Astra Extra High to build a br…
OpenAI will retire GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Thinking from ChatGPT and the Codex CLI on October 14, 2026, after declining developer requests on its community forum to keep the model as a legacy Codex option. The model shipped …
A developer argues that token usage should be treated as an input cost rather than a performance metric, warning that optimizing for token efficiency can undermine AI workflow quality. The piece contends that falling inf…
A GitHub repository, asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks, collects the hidden system prompts used by production AI products including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and Claude Code, organized as Markdown files grouped by com…
Salesforce announced Koa, its first CRM reasoning model, built on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super, at Dreamforce on Tuesday, where NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang joined Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff onstage. Salesforce presid…
A developer outlined a practical framework for context engineering in production AI agents, arguing that most 2026 agent failures stem from context assembly rather than model capability. The guide distinguishes context e…
OpenAI announced on September 8, 2026 that an internal, unreleased model solved a weakened, forced version of the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem, reportedly using up to 10,000 AI agents and millions of dollars in…
Okta security practitioner Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, alleging that both Anthropic and OpenAI are racing irresponsibly toward self-improving superintelligence, a claim made in the wake of Anthropic CEO Dario Am…
A set of mathematical formulas has been published for evaluating how strongly AI models associate brands with industry verticals, using length-normalized association log-likelihood, softmax choice probability, and direct…
A developer argues that AI agents should be understood as a new class of user interface that removes the mental friction of manually combining data points from dashboards and GUIs. The engineer describes agents as loops …
Google rolled out Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two voice models from the Gemini Audio Team that pair spoken conversation with parallel reasoning. Extended Thinking leads Artificial Analysis' Spe…
Google announced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, which it calls its "most advanced live dialogue models yet," following the March launch of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live. Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking …
Chime posted a job opening for a Senior Software Engineer on its AI Enablement team in San Francisco, offering a base salary of $164,000 to $227,000 plus bonus, equity, and benefits. The role involves building internal A…
A DeepSeek engineer who wrote the main attention kernels for DeepSeek V4.1 published a candid essay saying AI will likely match or exceed his kernel-writing and optimization ability within six months to a year, yet he co…