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 unveiled the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at its Cloud Next keynote, replacing Vertex AI, which had served as its AI platform since 2023, as part of a full-stack cloud AI strategy spanning chips, models, platf…
A technical comparison of built-in versus custom tools in LLM agents finds that provider-run tools such as OpenAI's and Anthropic's hosted web search execute the entire tool loop inside a single API request, while custom…
OpenAI sends full ChatGPT chat logs to human contractors for model training under its "Improve the model for everyone" setting, which is enabled by default on the Free, Plus, and Pro plans, according to documents seen by…
Anthropic launched Claude for Financial Services on September 15, 2026, a specialized AI product for traders, analysts, and investment bankers that runs on Claude Opus 4 models and is available on AWS Marketplace, with G…
A guide recommends eight venues for substantive AI programming discussion, led by the Hugging Face Community, which it calls the gold standard for researchers and engineers focused on model weights and benchmarks. The ot…
A developer has published a solution to a puzzle from a workshop on building a minimal hand-constructed transformer, demonstrating why position embeddings and residual connections are necessary. The extended model adds a…
AI inference has become the dominant focus of the AI industry in 2026, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calling it the "inflection point of inference" at the company's GTC 2026 conference, according to Moor Insights & Strate…
Axelera AI is shipping Europa, its second-generation AI Processing Unit (AIPU), which delivers 629 TOPS at INT4, INT8, or INT16 within a 45W TDP from eight second-generation AI processing cores, the Eindhoven company sai…
Anthropic and OpenAI are pushing for US government intervention on AI safety grounds as a way to protect their market position, according to an opinion piece in The Register. The piece cites Anthropic's June 2026 Fable 5…
Google, Google DeepMind, and MIT FutureTech released new research drawing on Google's AI & Economy ATLAS showing that nearly half of surveyed scientists use some form of AI every day and report saving just under seven ho…
EU member state officials convened in Brussels on Thursday for an Artificial Intelligence Board meeting on international AI policy, recent AI incidents, and global guardrails for advanced AI models, weeks after the EU AI…
Nvidia Developer Relations Manager Igor Dmochowski said at Infobip Shift 2026 that the compute required to process an LLM's context grows quadratically with context length, making it unscalable for production agents. Dmo…
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory released Atria Dawn Preview, a 744 billion parameter mixture-of-experts agentic model, via a GitHub repository on September 11, 2026 and an FP8 checkpoint on Hugging Face a day…
Anthropic, OpenAI, and LangChain each offer distinct definitions of an AI agent, with Anthropic describing agents as "systems where LLMs dynamically direct their own processes and tool usage, maintaining control over how…
A developer has released a red-teaming kit that makes LLM safety evaluations reproducible by pinning a versioned probe corpus, raw prompts and replies, and a sha256 hash of the corpus, scoring results 0-100 for use as a …
A developer measured 120 AI-generated code samples from Qwen2.5-Coder 1.5B and found that every case flagged as a swallowed error by a naive detector was either a false positive or a documented fallback, concluding that …
DeepSeek engineer Liu Shengyu, who worked on the company's V4.1 models, publicly said he does not trust Anthropic or OpenAI to make cutting-edge AI "open and affordable," writing in a Monday social media post that he esp…
A developer released rag-debugger, an open-source MIT-licensed Python SDK that intercepts and inspects retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines to surface missing knowledge-base coverage. The tool, installable via …
A security practitioner has published a six-item taxonomy of AI threats, splitting them into four vectors — Shadow AI, Rogue Agent, Prompt Injection, and Model & Data Supply Chain — and two impacts, Data Exfiltration and…
AI industry leaders Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis have converged on the position that the latest generation of large language models are not safe, according to MIT Technology Review, which notes…