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Data Points

Meta’s newest world model research project: Google’s Data Commons now available via MCP

DeepSeek’s recent model update. SWE-Bench-Pro, a tough new coding benchmark. ChromeDevTools, a new way for agents to control a web browser. Microsoft’s latest move to open up Copilot to more models.

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Data Points

Nvidia and OpenAI make a deal: DeepSeek reveals more R1 training details

Anthropic’s latest Claude bug report. How Google is injecting Gemini into Chrome. Research on AI model scheming. Grok-4-Fast, a distilled version of xAI’s top model.

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Data Points

GPT-5 gets a Codex-specific model update: A new MCP-style protocol for agentic payments

GitHub’s new MCP server registry. Google and OpenAI’s gold medal achievements at ICPC. VaultGemma, an open, privacy-first language model. How Anthropic’s usage restrictions risk U.S. ire.

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Data Points

Qwen pilots new attention mechanisms: Who uses ChatGPT and why? Answers from a new study

Replit’s self-testing updates to Agent 3. Stable Audio speeds up custom sounds for enterprise. Google’s plan to spread paid Gemini plans worldwide. Zoox’s unusual robotaxis hit the road in Las Vegas.

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Data Points

Claude corners the market on office docs: A path to training AI models on copyrighted music

Why Anthropic’s books copyright deal is postponed. The U.S. government’s new AI youth safety investigation. Seedream 4.0, Bytedance’s new image model. Jupyter Agent 2, a set of tools for solving data science problems.

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Anthropic copyright suit settled for $1.5 billion: Why AI models hallucinate and how to fix them

Qwen3-Max, Alibaba’s giant, capable new model. Grok-code-fast, xAI’s new free coding agent. Google’s deals to supply TPUs to other cloud providers. Projects, ChatGPT’s newly free organizational feature.

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Data Points

Swiss model Apertus discloses code, datasets: AI content labels now mandatory on Chinese platforms

Hermes, a model trained to reason and follow instructions. Tencent’s new explorable 3D world framework. OpenAI’s new jobs and certification programs. Warner Bros’s lawsuit against Midjourney.

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Microsoft’s first MAI foundation models: Latam-GPT, an LLM optimized with regional data

Anthropic and OpenAI’s audits of each others’ models. Claude’s opt-out training data policies. ChatGPT’s responses to mental health crises. Alibaba’s new AI inference chip.

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Data Points

Google’s Nano Banana hits the scene: OpenAI’s latest voice-to-voice model

Anthropic’s browser use extension preview. Automation hits entry-level workers first. Reinforcement Learning from Checklist Feedback. Authors settle copyright lawsuit over pirated books.

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Data Points

Perplexity offers AI news subscription plan: Nvidia Nano 2 employs Mamba for speed

Cohere’s new reasoning mode for open-weights Command A. Hacking MCP to turn Claude into an image generator. Google’s new AI deal with the U.S. government. Meta’s partnership with image generator Midjourney.

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Data Points

DeepSeek releases a hybrid reasoning model: OpenAI unveils a new subscription plan for India

Alibaba’s new text and image editing features. Adobe’s tool to chat with your PDFs and other docs. Browsemaster, a new framework for agentic search. Surya, an IBM/NASA model that predicts solar weather.

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Data Points

Tencent’s new hybrid approach to images: Text adventures test models’ memories

How to manage multiple Claude Code sessions. Reddit’s standoff with the Internet Archive. A new framework for developing open computer-use agents. Using AI to kill antibiotic-resistant germs.