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Evaluating the best AI search engines: Claude can read your Gmail and the web

New BitNet model shows that 1,0,-1 might be enough. Kling gets a model update with image and video inputs. Google rolls out video generation and animation model to subscribers. Music streamer Deezer notes sharp uptick in AI-generated music.

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Wikimedia wants to help build AI for the commons: Pricing and availability for o3 and o4-mini

Gemini 2.5 Flash blends speed with budgeted reasoning. IBM’s Granite Speech sets SOTA in transcription accuracy. Recall will soon return to Copilot Plus PCs. OpenAI will shelve its biggest, costliest model.

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OpenAI unveils new model suite for developers: Meta’s crawlers return to Europe

New vibe coding tools for Gemini. ChatGPT can remember all your conversations. Google’s new TPU is built for agents, inference. How college students use chatbots.

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Open-source DeepCoder matches top models: ML researchers accept an AI-written workshop paper

Google’s A2A protocol helps agents work together. Amazon debuts unified speech-to-speech model. Claude’s new subscription plan for power users. Elon Musk’s battle with OpenAI takes a new turn.

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Meta’s got a brand new herd: Gemini 2.5 Pro gets a price tag

Microsoft personalizes its multitasking Copilot. Midjourney overhauls its leading image model. An early vibe coding entrant reenters a crowded field. A cybersecurity-optimized version of Gemini.

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OpenAI promises a more open model: Runway seeks to stabilize scenes in AI video

Amazon gets into browser use with Nova Act. Claude goes back to school with program for higher ed. Google becomes a harder place for AI researchers to publish. Evaluating models’ ability to replicate cutting-edge AI research.

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Adapting R1-like techniques to video reasoning: Anthropic builds an “AI microscope” to probe Claude’s internal anatomy

How Alibaba built its compact but powerful video generation models. Towards a unified text-image diffusion model. A new approach to vision-language understanding from Alibaba. Microsoft adapts OpenAI models to build data workforce agents.

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Gemini 2.5 Pro takes the top spot on key benchmarks: GPT-4o’s popular but controversial new image generator

DeepSeek updates its V3 model with new skills and MIT license. Reve Image 1.0 excels at text and typography design. Qwen2.5-Omni tackles text. Images, audio, and video. Software developers have tried AI, but some like it better.

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Building a model for vision and speech: How Cloudflare thwarts unauthorized AI crawlers… by using AI

Nvidia’s Nemotron adds reasoning to Llama models. Does ChatGPT make frequent users more lonely? OpenAI’s o1-pro costs a pretty penny. Mistral Small 3.1 gives Gemma 3 27B some competition.

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This Aardvark predicts the weather: GPT-4o meets Whisper; OpenAI’s new models

Nvidia gives Project DIGITS a new name. AI models compete to build Minecraft items. Claude chatbot now includes search. A Moore’s law-like regularity for AI agents.

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ERNIE checks competitors with low prices: AI2’s OLMo2 32B may be the top fully open model

Google’s two new Gemini vision-language-action robotics models. Cohere’s Command A, another lightweight LMM. New China regulations require mandatory labels for AI content. Monitoring reasoning models for reward hacking or unwanted behavior.

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AI giants’ U.S. policy proposals: Gemma 3 beats bigger open weight rivals

OpenAI’s new SDK and APIs for agentic workflows. Olympic Coder, two powerful open coding models. Alibaba applies RL to emotion detection. GPT-4.5 and Claude Sonnet 3.7 top a new agent leaderboard.