Weekly AI news for engineers, executives, and enthusiasts.

OpenAI model solves Navier-Stokes equations: Anthropic formalizes proof for Fermat’s Last Theorem

Muse, Meta’s agentic personal assistant. AlphaGenome Atlas, a database of DNA effects. ChatGPT Images 2.5, a better image editor. Voice Design, an easier route to multi-regional agents.

All about GPT-6 Astra, a computer use star: Nvidia acquires Hugging Face in multibillion dollar deal

METR reports OpenAI restrictions on its investigation. Gemini 3.8 Flash offers another fast, solid update. Harvard/Boston Public Library make old newspapers AI-ready. Nvidia’s PAIR routes workloads through multiple machines.

A Simpler Method to Monitor Models: CRC Monitor can tell if model output is incorrect or unsafe in real-time

LLM safety monitors that act during generation often analyze a series of safety scores to catch incorrect or harmful outputs.

Custom Models for Law, News, and Finance: Thomson Reuters’ Thomson LLM, based on Qwen 3.5, trained on proprietary data

Thomson Reuters launched a proprietary large language model family called Thomson.

Ox Alpha Revealed as GLM-5.3-Flash: Z.ai’s latest model built viral buzz as Ox Alpha while being served on China-made chips

For over a week, the name and maker of the most-used model on OpenRouter remained unknown.

Comparing OpenAI and Anthropic’s Data Retention Policies: How OpenAI’s Private Safety Processing and Anthropic's Enterprise Frontier Safeguards affect ZDR policies

Anyone who sends private data to an AI model or service deserves a clear answer to three questions: (i) Where do they store it? (ii) How long do they keep it? and (iii) What, if anything, will they do with it (such as train on it, show to humans, etc.)

The AI Engineering Skills Map Part 4 — Coding Agents: How to Use Coding Agents Effectively from Planning to Execution and Monitoring

A key AI engineering skill is using coding agents. Your skill at steering them both to write code and to carry out non-code tasks, such as analyzing data or managing system operations, allows you to get a lot more done.

Inside Key Changes in Data Policies, Ox Alpha Revealed, Taking Custom Models Beyond Fine-Tuning

The Batch News & Insights: A key AI engineering skill is using coding agents.

Claude Fable and Mythos trim the verbiage: Perplexity preserves privacy on local machines

World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li introduces a world model. Times-FM-3 sets new standard for multivariable time forecasts. ChatGPT’s advertising program expands to new countries. Music publishers sue Anthropic for copyright infringement.

OpenAI cuts off Cursor: OpenClaw gets a community-driven overhaul

Model Hardware Standard move towards open source release. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe impresses on accuracy tests. Speech-to-text leaderboard expands beyond European languages. U.S. gov’t discriminated against Anthropic, court finds.

LLMs Take Out the Agent’s Trash: Researchers at Xiaohongshu detail LLM-based memory management technique for agents

AI agents typically compact the contents of their context windows by summarizing or deleting the oldest material.

DeepSeek-V4-Pro Gets Refreshed: DeepSeek’s flagship only slightly outperforms Flash model; Open source harness draws interest

DeepSeek’s flagship model graduated from preview with improved performance plus the harness the model was benchmarked in.