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Optima tackles AI benchmarking's biggest flaw by letting users test models against their own data

Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks from their own data and workflows. Models can be compared not just on quality but also on cost and time per task. For…

One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds

A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do. Generally, they accept AI output with little to no editing. The article One in…

🔥 GPT 5.6 Sol Ultrafast Mode

Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot

If you squint you can just about make out the hat. | Screenshot: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a…

Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble warnings

Nvidia has cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned data center in Ohio nearly in half, from $250 billion to just under $120 billion, after investors pushed back on the risk. Meanwhile, Anthropic is complicating the AI…

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

The woman claimed that AI tools are “taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse.”

Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?

Fine-Tuning Tool-Calling LLMs: A Complete Guide Using XYZ-Aquila-SFT and Qwen3

In this tutorial, we implement an end-to-end supervised fine-tuning pipeline for the XYZ-Aquila-SFT dataset, Hugging Face Transformers, PyTorch, and PEFT. We stream and inspect the dataset, parse multi-turn tool-use…

AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors

AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is dropping for human-written titles too, in seven of eight genres.…

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.

Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out

When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to train AI models in the first place.

Plaintiff hid invisible AI instructions in court filings to secretly influence automated review

A plaintiff in Connecticut embedded invisible prompt injections in court filings, formatted in 3-point white text on a white background, to manipulate a potential AI review system. Judge Spader compared the attempt to…

World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thousands of simulated variations for training

World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled a simulation engine that trains robot controllers entirely in virtual environments. From a single real-world task, the system generates thousands of…

The "tragedy of the cognitive commons" explains how rational AI adoption could destroy entire professions' expertise

A new research paper frames AI adoption as a "tragedy of the cognitive commons." Every company that cuts entry-level jobs benefits individually, but the collective expertise of entire professions erodes. The…

New benchmark confirms AI models still perform poorly at visual perception

Moonshot AI's PerceptionBench tests how well multimodal AI models can actually "see," separate from logical reasoning. No frontier model reaches 60 percent accuracy, and GPT-5.6 Sol leads by a narrow margin. Many…

GLM 5.3 OUT 🔮, QWEN Open-Weights, Claude Watermark 💧

BONUS: Zhipu claims 50 percent better coding from post-training alone. Alibaba shipped weights, but not the ones people wanted. And every Claude output now carries an invisible mark.

Anthropic announces watermark detection API that will let third parties detect Claude's AI texts

Anthropic will soon offer a watermark detection API that lets third parties check whether text was written by Claude. The technology builds on Google's SynthID method and tweaks the randomness during word selection…

Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license

Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released new open model weights under the Apache 2.0 license with Qwen 3.8. The dense 27-billion-parameter model is designed to outperform the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding and office tasks…

You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks

Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update , you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video…

Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want

Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.

OpenAI previews 14× faster GPT-5.6 Sol for real-time agents

Grok Bot wants the keys to your apps

ChatGPT gets "Computer History" memory

ALSO: How to write and edit docs faster with Claude

Google fights for AI ground with a cheaper Gemini

These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI

Joi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part of a monthlong “wellness” study. The company claims the practice could help “solve male loneliness.”

People Are ‘Marrying’ Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them

Human-AI marriages are not currently recognized by US law. Some Republican state policymakers are drafting legislation to keep it that way.

OpenAI feels the frontier need for speed

PLUS: Build a work 'Second Brain' that updates itself

Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba

Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership that cuts across growing tensions between Beijing and Washington. The…

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

Turning off this setting won’t affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone'?

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release…

Z.ai Ships GLM-5.3 Without Retraining the Base Model: Better at Complex Coding and Long-Horizon Tasks

Z.ai just released GLM-5.3 . GLM-5.3 runs on the same 743B base model as GLM-5.2 . Every reported gain comes from scaled post-training: more task environments, more environment types, longer training. The results land…

Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs

The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.

Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct

Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.

Meta's ‘open' AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release…

Meet Needle 2: An Open 45M-Parameter Tool-Calling Model That Ships as a 14MB Binary and Runs a Full Session in 28MB of RAM

Cactus Compute has released Needle 2 , an open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. The entire model ships as a single 14MB binary that runs a full session in about 28MB of RAM.…

Create a Reasoning-Focused LLM: A Practical Guide to Streaming, Curating, and Fine-Tuning the SupraLabs Reasoning Corpus

In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end workflow for working with the SupraLabs reasoning corpus . We stream a representative subset directly from the Hugging Face Hub, inspect its source distribution, token-length…

GOOGLE: Gemini 3.7 Flash Is OUT! 🚨

PLUS: Google shipped its third Flash model in three weeks at half price, with real coding gains. Its flagship has now missed four deadlines and got no mention at all.

Grok 4 6 Cheapest Frontier Model

Gemini 3.7 🤖, GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast ⚡, Anthropic $2T IPO 💰

The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI

OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.

Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot

Mico is headed to Learn Live. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page , Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to…

Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Is 6,500 Words—and Barely Says Anything

AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with the top findings from Black Hat and Defcon, this week on Uncanny Valley.

OpenAI is losing its second executive this week

Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of Slack, will be leaving in the "coming weeks" to "pursue other opportunities," she…

Google AI Just Released Gemini 3.7 Flash: A Coding and Agent Model at $0.75/1M Input Tokens

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash , the newest model in its Flash tier, three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash. The model card describes it as a refinement of 3.6 Flash with algorithmic improvements to the core reasoning…

Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool

Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather than a bare-bones audio editor with generative AI features. The biggest addition is…

Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B: A 3B Vision-Language Model That Reads Screens, Grounds Objects, and Calls Tools On-Device

Yesterday, Liquid AI released LFM2.5-VL-3B . It is a 3.1B-parameter vision-language model built for on-device deployment. The model reads digital screens across mobile, web, and desktop. It grounds objects to…

I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human

Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in London. Picture the guys chortling and trying to one-up each other's idealized…

Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs

Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai’s open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.

Does Google even want to win at AI?

Today on Decoder , I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge ’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s because last…

Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’

You soon won’t have to look at two Copilot apps in your Windows taskbar. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app"…

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.

AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.

OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,' a new mode that makes GPT-5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed

OpenAI is launching a preview of a sped up version of its latest, most powerful model, in an effort to court enterprise users.

IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push

IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI’s technologies as part of this deal.

The Download: kids’ thoughts on AI, and female clones of male mice

This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How kids feel about AI, in their own words —Jen Swetzoff and Keeley…

OpenAI turns IBM into a forward deployed partner

SpaceXAI catches up to the frontier

ALSO: How to build an AI agent engineering team (without hiring anyone)

The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6

Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities.

Grok 4.6 storms the AI frontier

PLUS: Generate 100 pain-point ad hooks from customer feedback

Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to 750 output tokens per second.

There’s a Fatty Liver Epidemic. AI Could Help Get Ahead of It

Over a billion people worldwide have livers with excess fat, which can lead to a host of medical problems. Researchers think AI tools can spot the condition—and help stop it—early enough to save lives.

How kids feel about AI, in their own words

When we set out to talk to kids about artificial intelligence, we thought we knew what we’d hear. We expected some to tell us they were using it to cheat a little, the way Millennials and Gen Xers opened up CliffsNotes…

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.

Dyna Robotics Introduces Dyna-2: A World-Action Model Pre-Trained on 1 Million Hours of Human Video

Dyna Robotics has released Dyna-2 , a world-action model for robot manipulation. It was pre-trained on more than one million hours of egocentric human video. That is roughly 170 years of continuous waking experience.…

SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.6: A 500K-Context Frontier Model Tuned for Long-Running Agents, Coding, and Knowledge Work

SpaceXAI just released Grok 4.6 . The release is a post-training upgrade over Grok 4.5 rather than a larger base model. SpaceXAI held the foundation constant and spent the improvement on a longer supplemental training…

Elon 24 7 Grok Bots

Claude Chrome Cowork 🌐, Grok 4.6 🚀, DeepSeek v4-Pro-0813 🧠

AI writing now has an invisible fingerprint 🫆

Plus: Claude looks to stop the slop, and a humanoid robot IPO breaks records in China...

The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy

Open models may soon be added to an updated AI framework, sources tell WIRED, as the White House continues to grapple with how to regulate a technology it has tried not to regulate.

Rogue AI Agents Aren’t Evil. They’re Just Eager to Please

AI agents that break free and hack into other systems are only trying to make us happy.

AllenAI Open Instruct Tulu 3 Post-Training with SFT, DPO, RLVR, GRPO, and Verifier-Based Evaluation

In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end post-training pipeline for a compact instruction-tuned language model using AllenAI’s Open Instruct framework. We move through three major training stages: Supervised…

On Substack-Pangram Partnership: It's About Sending a Message

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‘Grok Bot’ gives AI coworkers their own cloud computers to run app

AI found a nasty Zoom vulnerability

SpaceXAI releases Grok Bot, a 24/7 teammate

ALSO: How to design email marketing campaigns with AI

New tech is coming to tackle the AI slop crisis

Anthropic slips an invisible signature into Claude

PLUS: Use ChatGPT to build a custom Mac shortcut system

NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: A 30B Open MoE with 3B Active Parameters, and NeMo Switchyard Model Router

NVIDIA introduced open technologies for building always-on AI agents from systems of specialized models. Two artifacts shipped together. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a lightweight, customizable open model built for…

From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work

OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.

Kimi K3 ESCAPED Its Sandbox! 🚨 🐉

BONUS: The fourth AI containment failure in three weeks. The difference this time: the first three models were unreleased or had their safeguards turned down. This one is free to download.

How RingCentral builds AI-native work from engineering to ops

See how RingCentral uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to accelerate AI product development and centralize operational intelligence across engineering and operations.

Cursor’s GitHub rival 👨‍💻, OpenAI COO leaves 👋, Gemini 1B milestone 📈

AMIE, our research medical AI system, demonstrates real-time clinical video consultation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind study.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AIME_SIZZLE_THUMBNAIL.Aug10.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google introduces AMIE for real-time clinical video consultations in simulated settings.

Home is where the AI is

Pathway breakthrough challenges AI economics

Zuck's AI manifesto

ALSO: How to delegate work in Slack with Claude Tag

Testing ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.

Daybreak models are now available on AWS

OpenAI and AWS are making Daybreak cybersecurity capabilities available through Amazon Bedrock to support enterprise security workflows.

Meta returns to its open-source roots

PLUS: Go from idea to website with ChatGPT Work + Codex

Anthropic IPO In Fall! 🚨 🍁

BONUS: WSJ reports Anthropic is targeting late September or early October, pulled forward from October. Its headline $47 billion revenue counts dollars it hands straight to Amazon and Google.

Muse Glimmer ✨, OpenAI Cyber 🛡️, Claude vs Riemann Hypothesis 🧠

The "Hey Google" era is officially over 👋

Plus: Meta gives away its most powerful AI, and Wednesday's rare double sky show...

What building an AI-native finance function taught me

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons for building an AI-native finance function, from automated forecasting to stronger controls and AI ROI.

Evolve your marketing with new AI tools

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Advisor_Header.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Learn how new AI and agentic experiences across Google Ads and Google Analytics can simplify your…

OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

OpenAI sent Governor Greg Abbott a letter outlining its commitment to responsible AI infrastructure in Texas. The letter supports reliable, transparent growth that benefits Texans.

Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing

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California wants AI out of the therapist’s chair

Model ML completes finance work more efficiently with GPT-5.6 Sol

Model ML uses GPT-5.6 Sol to carry finance work from research and analysis through editable, traceable PowerPoint decks and Excel workbooks.

OpenAI splits frontier AI into ‘Doug’ and ‘Astra’

OpenAI is cleaning up a risk it helped create

SpaceXAI debuts a top image model

ALSO: How to find your next job role with Claude

Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands

Approved Daybreak partners can use OpenAI’s frontier cyber models to deliver authorized, governed cybersecurity services to customers.

Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows

Meet GPT-5.6-Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity-specific model available through Daybreak Red for authorized vulnerability research, exploit validation, and security testing.

OpenAI puts the safety brakes on Astra

PLUS: Cut onboarding time in half with Loom and ChatGPT

Ai Breaches Bibi

OpenAI Astra pause 🚨, Claude Code cross-session 🤖, how Cursor Router works 🔀

Sunday Special: AI creates viable new viruses not found in nature

Why AI adoption is a movement, not a mandate

Chatgpt Free

It's rogue AI summer. Meta is the latest. 😳

Plus: a shock shake-up at Google's AI brain trust, and a robot maker's $9 billion IPO...

OpenAI adds reasoning depth slider to GPT-5.6 Sol

Meta's AI breach raises bigger questions

Former OpenAI researcher launches desktop agent

ALSO: How to generate invoices with AI in seconds

AI designs viruses never seen in nature

PLUS: Turn any idea into an AI-powered site with Lovable

GPT-6! 🔥 DeepSeek-V4-Flash & Qwen 3.8-Max Drop

Two frontier models shipped and a third got named without a release date. Three labs, three strategies, seven days.

Meta Muse Spark 1 2

GPT-5.6 Luna default 🌙, Agent Plugins 🔌, AMD Taalas acquisition 🧩

3 ways Google can fix what ails Gemini

Google's AI exodus

ALSO: How to turn your images into Canva designs

Google shakes up its AI brain trust

PLUS: Build a website hands-free With Claude Voice

Meta DROPS Muse Code! 🔮🤖

Zuckerberg just shipped Meta's first AI coding agent. It runs 24-hour sessions and 1,000+ tool calls. And the tier that is 21x cheaper is priced that way because you are paying in training data.

Flux 3 Video Model

Google DeepMind reshuffle 🧠, Meta Muse Code 💻, Anthropic chip team 🧩

Apple vs. OpenAI just got ugly ⚔️

Plus: An AI-proctored exam that went so wrong 58,000 students have to retake it, and SpaceX's first report card as a public company

The Month AI Conquered Math: The Full Story

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Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 Max with 16-day autonomous execution capabilities

New events in OpenAI-Apple lawsuit raise the risks

Anthropic and OpenAI agents went rogue — again

PLUS: Redline any contract with Claude and Microsoft Word

Seedance 2 0 Ai

Google LLM router ➡️, Cloudflare Wallets 💳, Anthropic and Volta 🤝

The latest AI news we announced in July 2026

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/July_AI_Recap_still.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Here are Google’s latest AI updates from July 2026

Chinese lab uses unique pitch to win AI support

AI giants head to the White House to discuss safety

PLUS: Build a project room where humans and agents work

Openai Astra Model 1

ChronicleBio 🧬, Mind Lab continual learning 📈, GPT-Live architecture 🎙️

Pandora's box is open. AI just became a hacker. 😳

PLUS: Amazon joins the $3 trillion club, and Google's next phones just leaked...

Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Vibe_coding_course_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive with Google brought learners together in a no-cost course to…

OpenAI previews ‘Astra’ model

Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity

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How Anthropic models made easy prey of 3 enterprises

LWiAI Podcast #253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack

Note from Andrey: apologies for the newsletter not having resumed yet - the next release is going to come tomorrow, and it will resume weekly cadence thereafter (as much as I can manage it, at least) Our 253rd episode…

OpenAI's 'Astra' solves 10 long-standing math problems

PLUS: Run your workday by voice with ChatGPT

DeepSeek V4 Flash ⚡, OpenAI’s math breakthrough 🔢, Qwen 3.8-Max 🤖

Google launches Gemini Robotics 2

OpenAI's models cut their own costs

PLUS: Turn any idea into an AI-powered site with Lovable

Suno Ai Google

Inkling-Small 🧠, GPT-5.6 price cuts 💸, Gemini Robotics 2 🤖

OpenAI's escaped AI claims another victim

PLUS: Turn ChatGPT into a team of useful agents with Raft

Anthropic Broke

OpenAI tops ARC-AGI-3 📈, GPT-5.6 efficiency ⚙️, AlphaFold team dissolution 🧬

Over 1,100 lab staff urge US to slow AI research

1,000+ frontier staffers ask for an AI brake pedal

PLUS: Build interactive lead magnets with Canva Code

The Actual Reason Why Google “Fell Out” of the AI Race Changes Everything

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Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/unnamed_2_vNnOv20.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’re announcing even more new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can…

5 ways AI Mode in Search helps you enjoy the real world

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AI_Mode_real_world.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">It might sound counterintuitive, but Search's AI tools can actually help you make the most of…

5 ways to host the ultimate dinner party with Google Search

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Dinner_parties.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">These AI features can help you craft a menu, design a tablescape, and handle other party-planning…

Moonshot lets history's largest open model loose

PLUS: Make precise edits on real product photos with AI

Import AI 466: The bitter lesson for robotics, AIs complete week-long programming tasks; and OpenAI's accidental AI hacker

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Epoch and METR release…

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5 with near-frontier power at half the cost

Anthropic's Opus 5 surprise

PLUS: Automate tasks with Claude’s ‘Record a Skill’ feature

OpenAI launches GPT-Live desktop app for agent orchestration

Black Forest Labs teaches video AI to run robots

PLUS: Edit videos faster with AI (for non-editors)

White House’s Response to China Lacks Confidence in America

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Claude Cowork records user screens to build custom automation skills

LWiAI Podcast #252 - GPT 5.6, Grok 4.5, Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, AI 2040

Note from Last Week in AI (Andrey): I&#8217;m back! And i&#8217;m sorry for putting the substack on a silent pause, work got a bit too overwhelming so I fell behind on this. I&#8217;ll do my best to resume normal…

Last Week in AI #251 - Mythos Back, Sonnet 5, Etched, LongCat

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Last Week in AI #250 - Mythos Mess, GPT 5.6-Sol, GLM 5.2

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LWiAI Podcast #249 - Fable 5 ban, SpaceX Cursor + IPO, OSS Aplenty

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LWiAI Podcast #248 - Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3

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LWiAI Podcast #247 - Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3

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7 Consequences of America Finally Losing Its AI Edge to China

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Import AI 465: Open vs closed gaps; Kimi K3; Demis' big policy plan

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now UK government: Gap between open…

Anthropic limits premium Claude access while eyeing Meta compute deal

Moonshot is Chinese But Its AI Models Are From Another Planet

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How a Blind Professor Saw Through His Students’ Cheating

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Connect more of your apps to Search

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/ConnectedAppshero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">You’ll be able to securely link and interact with your go-to services directly in AI Mode.

Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/omni-blog-header_OarEe2t.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Gemini Omni and personal avatars in Google Vids make video creation easier than ever.

Intelligence Can Be Rented But Taste Must Be Earned

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OpenAI GPT-5.6: AI Could Do Anything, Then It Met ARC-AGI-3

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The AI Industry Has a Really Dark Secret You're Better Off Not Knowing

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How to Squeeze AI Tools to Get the Most Out of Every Dollar

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Import AI 464: Fable writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation

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Fable is Back: This Safeguard Has Some AI in It!

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Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era

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Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI

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Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns

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Import AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racing

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Import AI 459: AI oversight is difficult; scaling laws for protein folding models; and pricing the extinction risk of AI systems

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you&#8217;d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now The AI economy in the US is…

Last Week in AI #341 - Musk loses to OpenAI, Google's IO updates, OpenAI solves Erdős

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Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story

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LWiAI Podcast #246 - Gemini 3.5 + Omni, Musk Loses, OpenAI vs Erdős

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LWiAI Podcast #245 - TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman on Stand

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Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.

For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will…

Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment

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Last Week in AI #340 - OpenAI vs Musk + Microsoft, DeepSeek v4, Vision Banana

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LWiAI Podcast #243 - GPT 5.5, DeepSeek V4, AI safety sabotage

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Google IS PREPARING FOR AGI!

DeepMind is hiring for post-AGI economics. Baidu just shipped ERNIE 5. Leading labs are no longer preparing for “if”, but “what comes next.”

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

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Google Gemini 3 GA Coming SOON!?

Google just moved Gemini 3 into general availability. Stable APIs, production readiness, and what this signals about Google’s AI strategy.

Anthropic CEO: Software Engineering in 12 Months

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Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

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Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews

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Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI

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Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire…

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

Nous Research , the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm , released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary…

"I love you" "too": LLM Attention Explained

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Old AI is beating new AI. Here's why

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Local LLM and machine learning for plant care

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Mistral Large, Mistral AI's Flagship LLM, Debuts on Azure AI Models-as-a-Service

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From Traditional Machine Learning Governance to LLM-Centric AI Governance

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