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Data Points

U.S. chatbot use passes 50 percent: AA-Briefcase benchmark measures knowledge work

ARD, an open spec for discovery. North Mini Code gains traction. Security experts criticize U.S. government. Apple Intelligence, beyond Siri.

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Zhipu’s GLM-5.2 is the new top open model: SpaceX buys coding favorite Cursor

OpenRouter’s model mix-and-match. Subject expertise trumps software skills. OpenAI loses share to Google, Anthropic. Google ruled liable for AI mistakes.

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DiffusionGemma breaks 1,000 tokens/second: Anthropic closes Fable and Mythos after US intervention

Claude Fable 5 no longer silently degrades. Hermes Agent maker streamlines setup. Agents’ Last Exam pushes top models. Gemini-SQL2 translates database queries.

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Claude Fable 5, or Mythos for the masses: Apple rethinks mixture-of-experts to save local memory

Google’s voice translation model covers 70+ languages. OpenAI’s preliminary public-offering paperwork. NotebookLM, now powered by Gemini 3.5 agents. FrontierCode, a new code-quality benchmark from Cognition.

Scientists collaborate in a lab, using pipettes and computers for vaccine development research, wearing lab coats.

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Apple builds local/cloud models with Google: Gemma 4 12B, a laptop-sized model with multimodal power

The first working vaccine built by AI. Kimi CLI, Moonshot’s software engineering agent. The White House’s plans for an OpenAI stake. OpenJarvis, an open-source agent that learns on-device.

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Microsoft fully trains its own models: Copilot app brings agent management to desktop

How agents think about search. Hermes now a multi-platform desktop app. Qwen3.7-Plus, Alibaba’s midsized cloud model. OpenAI’s latest plugins for Codex.

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Claude Opus 4.8 advertises its uncertainty: Dynamic workflows manage Anthropic subagents

MiniMax M3, the new open-weights champ. Nvidia’s PC superchips. Cosmos 3, an all-modal world/action model. Nvidia’s latest robotics partnerships.

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DeepSWE claims to measure agents better: Pope Leo XIV calls for AI to “disarm,” consider humanity

DeepSeek’s permanent V4 price cuts. MAI-Image-2.5, currently third on the Arena Leaderboard. Mythos-1’s remarkable security skills. How MCP will change later this year

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Qwen3.7-Max, China’s latest top model: OpenAI model disproves key math conjecture

Nvidia’s Gated DeltaNet-2, its latest attention alternative. Trump calls off executive order regulating U.S. AI models. Microsoft’s benchmark-topping suite of computer use agents. Cohere’s Command-A+, a local alternative to big cloud AI.

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Cursor Composer undercuts competition: All the top news from Google’s I/O event

Google’s remade Antigravity, an alternative to IDEs. Omni Flash, Gemini’s voice-to-video generator. Google’s AI overhaul of web search. Corti’s Symphony, a specialist in medical transcription.

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Anthropic passes OpenAI in business adoption: Cerebras stock debut makes more AI billionaires

Europe’s new media licensing initiative. ArXiv’s defenses against AI-assisted mistakes. The Mythos effect on financial institutions. Ukraine’s evolving drone and data strategy.

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Thinking Machines debuts a new type of model: Google’s AI mouse promises better human-AI interaction

GitHub’s new Copilot pricing. Baidu’s smaller, faster flagship model. Google’s rethinking of mathematical research. RL Conductor’s orchestration of AI agents.