Weekly AI news for engineers, executives, and enthusiasts.

Agent Solves Stubborn Math Problems: Google’s Aletheia uses Gemini 3 Deep Think to find original mathematics solutions

LLMs have achieved gold-medal performance in math competitions. An agentic system showed strength in mathematical research as well.

Management for Agents: OpenAI’s Frontier agent insights and orchestration platform launches to select customers

Managers need to understand how their subordinates get work done, what resources they require, and what they accomplish. OpenAI’s latest product aims to fulfill this need when the teammates are AI agents.

U.S. Dept. of War Dismisses Anthropic, Embraces OpenAI: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth calls Claude a security risk, replaces it with GPT models

OpenAI signed a contract with the U.S. military to provide AI systems that securely process classified information, displacing Anthropic’s Claude. OpenAI negotiated limits on how its technology can be used, but they leave room for interpretation.

Nano Banana 2 Ups Performance/Price: Gemini 3.1 Flash Image makes photo generation and edits easier and faster

Google launched a cheaper, faster successor to its flagship image generator, delivering greater interactivity at roughly half the price.

Anthropic vs. the U.S. Government, Nano Banana’s Makeover, Frontier Agent Management, Google’s Mathematics Solutions

The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m thrilled to announce Context Hub, a new tool to give to your coding agents the API documentation they need to write correct code.

Qwen3.5 Small tops mobile-sized open models: Google introduces its own small model, Gemini 3.1-Flash-Lite

Claude’s expanded memory feature, including imports. GPT-5.3 Instant, a terse update to ChatGPT. How LLMs can unmask pseudonymous online users. Alibaba’s Qwen leadership losses soon after 3.5 release.

Anthropic and the U.S. government go to war: OpenAI partners with the U.S., claims additional safeguards

Nano Banana 2, Google’s fast, powerful image generator. GitHub Copilot’s multi-model and security scanning updates. Perplexity Computer, a premium multipurpose agent. OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar partnership with Amazon.

Introducing the DeepLearning.AI Skill Builder Tool!: Want to strengthen your AI skills? Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, DeepLearning.AI’s free Skill Builder can tell you what to do next.

We just released a Skill Builder tool to help you understand in which areas of AI you’re strong, where you can learn more, and what to do next to keep building your skills.

Can Local AI Stand In for the Cloud?: Stanford and Together.AI researchers chart edge models’ performance in intelligence per watt

Projected demand for output from large language models is spurring a massive buildout of data centers. Researchers asked whether smaller models running on local devices could meaningfully lighten that load.

Investors Panic Over Agentic AI: Claude Cowork plugins trigger a SaaS stock selloff, but partnerships lead to slight rebound

Makers of software that runs large companies saw their share prices plunge as investors worried that AI systems could undermine their businesses. This week, their stocks rebounded somewhat as Anthropic partnered with some of the same companies.

Global AI Summit Shows Optimism: Rising giant India presents itself as AI Counterweight to U.S. and China

The fourth global AI summit marked a decisive shift from focusing on theoretical hazards to spreading AI’s benefits throughout the world.

Gemini Takes the Lead: Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro in preview, tops Intelligence Index at same price

Google updated its flagship Gemini model, topping several benchmarks while undercutting competitors on performance per dollar.