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Meta AI now recognizes 1600 languages: Amazon and Perplexity spar over browser agents

Kimi K2 Thinking, the new top open model. Deep Research’s expansion to personal documents. Terminal-Bench makers’ new agentic benchmark. TSMC’s slowing revenue growth.

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Training power laws translate to robotics: Amazon builds forecasting model to predict multiple scenarios

Stability AI’s limited wins in Getty copyright suit. Kosmos’s new generalist scientific research agent. German Commons, a big open dataset for training AI models. Google’s experiments putting satellites with AI chips in space.

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OpenAI security agent finds and plugs holes: Cognition’s SWE-1.5 model brings more speed for coding agents

Why Gemma’s been pulled from Google’s AI Studio. How Minimax built M2 for better coding performance. A new technique for efficiently training smaller models. arXiv’s new requirements for computer science submissions.

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Cursor introduces a new model built for agents: Claude models sometimes know they’ve been tampered with

GitHub Copilot’s new agentic tools. OpenAI’s new open classification policy model. IBM’s small but powerful Granite Nano models. The state of generative media. A brand-new way to learn from DeepLearning.AI.

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LeRobot adds support for PI and Nvidia models: Qualcomm squares off with Nvidia in AI inference

GitHub Copilot’s new code completion model. OpenAI’s acquisition of a top computer use company. Anthropic’s latest deal for more computing power. Manus’s updated agentic assistant.

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Atlas ushers in OpenAI’s browser era: DeepSeek’s efficient new OCR model

Claude Code’s launch on the web and mobile. Reddit’s lawsuit against Perplexity and web-scraping firms. Meta and Hugging Face’s secure environments for agents. GigaBrain’s use of world models to better train robots.

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Skills remakes Claude with custom instructions: Google’s Veo 3.1 adds native audio and new editing tools

Microsoft’s Copilot Voice and Vision for Windows 11. HunyuanImage-3.0, a leaderboard-topping image generator. Adobe’s new plan for custom Firefly models. Ling-1T, an open non-thinking model that shines at reasoning.

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Claude’s Haiku Boasts Top Performance, Fast: Open speech recognition models top new leaderboard

Alibaba’s small, edge-optimized vision-language models. Microsoft’s new image generator. GitHub’s free kit for spec-driven development. ChatGPT’s new automated memory manager.

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Figure AI unveils its third-generation robot: Microsoft’s healthcare data partnership with Harvard

AI companies’ dominance of global venture funding. Samsung’s 7-million-parameter Tiny Recursion Model. The U.S.–UAE agreement for 500,000 Nvidia GPUs annually. IBM’s embrace of Anthropic’s Claude models for enterprise.

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OpenAI SDK helps devs build apps in ChatGPT: Zhipu AI’s open competitor to DeepSeek-V3.2 and Sonnet 4

Google’s research preview for CodeMender. Anthropic’s Petri, an open framework for automating alignment tests. Music labels near a deal with AI companies. Nano Banana becoming officially production available.

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DeepSeek 3.2 turns to experimental attention: AI safety bill SB 53 regulates California’s biggest companies

Mira Murati’s Tinker’s simplified approach to fine-tuning. OpenAI’s new video model and social app. IBM’s embrace of Mamba for Granite 4.0 models. Perplexity’s AI browser, now free worldwide.

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Anthropic updates Sonnet, Claude Code, and agentic dev tools: Perplexity builds developer API for its search engine

Two new Gemini robotics that coordinate to learn and act. ChatGPT bringing news and research to you with Pulse. Spotify’s crackdown on AI song impersonation. Microsoft introduces “vibe working” to Office.