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.
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.
AI agents typically compact the contents of their context windows by summarizing or deleting the oldest material.
DeepSeek’s flagship model graduated from preview with improved performance plus the harness the model was benchmarked in.
Developers who already track models’ cost and accuracy have good new reasons to pay closer attention to a third essential factor: speed.
Z.ai’s latest flagship model effectively ties open-weights leader Kimi K3 on Artificial Analysis’ index of intelligence benchmarks.
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Perplexity moves its computer use agent to on-device models. OpenAI’s Jalapeño may be faster than Nvidia’s best chips. Inside Thomson, Thomson Reuters’ model for law, news, and tax info. T-Rex, a robotics model that knows how to use its hands.
GLM-5.3 jumps to top of open weight leaderboards. Harvey’s Tenet offers law firms a specialized model. OpenAI introduces safety program for data-conscious customers. New Google research gives the transformer a makeover.
Most speech-to-text systems transcribe speech in a single pass, which makes them unable to correct errors in their outputs. Researchers built a system that allows for interactive corrections.
Open models are getting larger and more capable. A few weeks ago, Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3, the largest and best-performing open weights model yet. Last week, Alibaba answered by releasing weights for a giant of its own.