Weekly AI news for engineers, executives, and enthusiasts.

Claude 5.5’s first model has landed: GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna arrive on the same day as Opus

MiMo-V2.6-Pro is the top open weights model. Grok 4.7 is a top five model on Artificial Analysis. Meta moves to address security vulnerability in Muse. Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS model speaks 16 languages.

Qwen-Image-2.1 goes open weights: Gemini 3.8 Live, now with Extended Thinking mode

Devin’s SWE-2 Cognition model is a capable sidekick. Astra for Law brings top-shelf AI to legal work. Don’t let top AI companies dictate the rules, CEO says. Study questions wisdom of blanket AI bans in education.

Even Agents Benefit From Reminders: Meta research lets one agent acts as a memory surrogate for another

Agents can lose track of what happened earlier as their trajectories grow, either by truncating their contexts or by missing relevant information among irrelevant tokens.

Some Kimi and DeepSeek Users Were Served Claude Instead, Anthropic Says: Inside Anthropic's accounts of distillation, gray-market transfer stations, straw accounts, and user fraud

Anthropic accused seven Chinese AI developers, including Moonshot AI, Alibaba, and DeepSeek, of misusing its Claude models to mislead their customers and improve their own models.

Inside the Dispute Over A Landmark Agent-Driven Mathematical Proof: OpenAI agents solved a version of the Navier-Stokes fluid equations problem

OpenAI agents solved a longstanding mathematical problem that carries a $1 million prize, but many obervers question whether the agents drew on unpublished work by two mathematicians. 

How To Secure Agents for the Masses: Meta's Muse Agent uses your accounts and payments to take action

A malicious web page can fool an AI agent into working against you.

Who’s Responsible for Irresponsible AI?: Separating Out AI Facts, Fears, and Fiction

The loudest voices stoking fears about AI dangers have made tremendous headway in the past two weeks.

Meta’s Agent Security, The Navier-Stokes Controversy, Fraud on Claude

The Batch News & Insights: The loudest voices stoking fears about AI dangers have made tremendous headway in the past two weeks.

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash’s new architecture: Fugu matches frontier performance at lower cost

Open letter on AI models’ mathematical proofs. GPT-Live-1 brings full duplex voice to the API. Improving document recognition models. A NASA-built scientific model for the moon.

A Tool for Better Context Management: Researchers built SelfCompact, an agentic tool and harness that decides what context to keep

Models that make room in their context windows by discarding the oldest context can lose crucial information.

Transcription Battles Heat Up: Google, Meta, and Microsoft all release speech-to-text models suited for agentic input

Speech recognition, a core but sometimes overlooked AI technology in the age of generative models, is having a moment.

Fable Holds The Top Spot (For Now): Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 is an agentic powerhouse

While last week’s OpenAI launch may have made a bigger splash, Anthropic’s new model remains an agentic workhorse, with top marks on independent evaluations from Artificial Analysis and Vals AI.