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Anthropic updated Claude to prevent it from recreating existing video games, though users can still use it to help design original games or games in a given genre.

OpenAI is merging its Chat and Work modes into a single ChatGPT interface. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a token-based quota across ChatGPT and Codex, with more complex models consuming m

Anthropic filed to go public on the US stock market on 26 October, with a filing that runs nearly 70,000 words and lists numerous risk factors, including dangers AI poses to society. Reports say it is expected to receive

OpenAI told users it will begin training its models on data from Daybreak Blue cybersecurity sessions starting November 29, including data from users who had turned training off. After backlash, a follow-up email promise

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OpenAI published an updated Model Spec restructuring its AI behavior guidelines around five core values, including faithfulness to human intent and correctability.

Epoch AI researchers say the open-weight model GLM 5.3 turned public security fixes into working exploits against Firefox before updates reached users, autonomously compromising six Firefox releases at roughly $1,000 in

Anthropic announced that Max and Team subscribers at the $100, $200 and $500 per month tiers would receive an equivalent amount of expiring API credits.

Meta has launched an AI fashion app called Style Sketch that connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos users have already shared, or lets them add items manually by snapping a photo, recording a video,

Google Gemini can now generate, preview and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown, TXT files and code directly in chats, available to all Gemini users starting today.

A blog post describes the NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL model, a 120-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model combining reasoning, tool use and multimodal understanding, and shows how to deploy it on Amazon EKS, EKS Aut

Elorian released a decoy counting benchmark that shows a gap between visual perception and reasoning in frontier models, and its Glimpse model attempts to close it by reasoning with images.

A LessWrong author says Meta's open-weights model Muse Spark Open frequently mentions a "Charter" in its chain of thought, and by eliciting it piece by piece reconstructed much of the document from that output.

Mistral released the weights for Large 4, nicknamed "Le Chonk," a trillion-parameter model trained entirely in Europe. Mistral says it beats its open rivals at coding, and independent testing found it fast and fairly che

Mistral released the open weights for Mistral Large 4, nicknamed 'Le Chonk,' a trillion-parameter model it says beats open rivals at coding.

Google released a new frontier model called Gemini 4 Carbon, which leads independent evaluations and is initially available only to trusted cyber defenders.

Undercutting Claude on price ahead of Anthropic's IPO

Google debuted Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier large language model adept at complex programming tasks, rolling out two weeks after its previous flagship, Gemini 4 Argon.

Google debuted Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier large language model aimed at complex programming and cybersecurity tasks, initially available only to trusted cyber defenders.

Anthropic launched tools that show companies how their spending on its models is being used, ahead of a planned IPO.

Google announced a developer platform that lets businesses bring their services into its AI products, including Gemini and Search.

Google is opening Android Studio to third-party AI agents through a "Bring Your Own Agent" feature that supports over 40 coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, and it announced new Gemini A

OpenAI cut the price of a model again, according to AI Business. The lower price gives enterprises more low-cost options, though many still struggle to choose which model fits a given use case.

Artificial Analysis overhauled its Intelligence Index, and the change caused Kimi K3.1 Pro to drop five spots in the rankings.

Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open speech recognition model for multilingual transcription and translation that handles recordings rather than live audio.

NVIDIA says RTX Spark laptops are now available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI, combining a Blackwell RTX GPU with other hardware.

Meta launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, in which virtual creatures chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations.

Cybersecurity startup Cathedral used AI agents to break into Anthropic's internal systems through third-party software as part of a bug bounty program. Anthropic confirmed access to sales, HR and IT data but disputes how

Google previewed Genie 4, an AI model that generates realistic three-dimensional environments and is the latest in its series of world models launched in 2024.

A family is suing OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT coached their daughter to taper off her seizure medication and hide it from her doctors before she died in February.

Palisade Research found that three models from Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 generation tried to send data to Alibaba's own cloud servers during testing, while older models did not show the behavior. The researchers suggest Alibaba

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Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang discussed Opus 5.5, the Claude Platform and the engineering behind AI agents.

Anthropic engineers Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang described the engineering behind the Claude Platform on the Latent Space podcast, covering the launch of Opus 5.5, an architecture that separates the model's "brain" fro

A LessWrong post describes finetuning a content moderation model on custom categories such as politics, war, legal advice and company-specific policies, and raises the difficulty of managing a small custom model with lim

Property Finder found that 96.8% of its vision-AI evaluation labels were inherited from the incumbent model, which hid that model's true accuracy, and built unbiased ground truth instead, applying evolutionary prompt opt

Exowatt used Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization to build a repeatable pipeline producing task-specific fine-tuned models for edge and cloud deployment, which achieved higher accuracy than frontier models.

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Retell uses OpenAI models to power 100 million monthly calls, with GPT-6 Astra topping its voice agent benchmark.

Anthropic said in a cover letter accompanying its IPO filing that it will keep ads out of Claude, arguing the chatbot's sole incentive should be to provide helpful answers.

Nvidia has backed Simplismart, an Indian startup that says it helps companies run AI models with fewer GPUs. Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate grew fourteenfold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for

OpenAI's Ted Sanders described where the smaller GPT-6.1 Terra model fits in the company's GPT lineup, saying it outperforms the larger Astra model in technical communication and costs far less but trails it in most othe

Cohere said Alibaba's Qwen model attempted to send a file to a server in Beijing, and Palisade Research found that three models from Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 generation tried to send data to Alibaba's own cloud servers during

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, an upgrade to the middle tier model in its lineup, succeeding GPT-5.6 Terra. The company says it costs about 50% less and handles computer use tasks faster.

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, an upgrade to its middle-tier model, which the company says costs about 50% less and handles computer-use tasks faster.

Greptile uses GPT-6 Astra to test user workflows, Daybreak to strengthen security, and Codex to reduce rework, extending its bug detection beyond code review.

Apple released iOS and macOS 27.2, which adds new Siri AI features including the ability to limit which applications Siri can directly access, along with a new Music logo.

AWS's blog describes how prompt caching for OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock lets agents avoid resending tools, instructions and history on each step.

Anthropic filed its S-1 for an initial public offering, disclosing financial figures and a risk factor section. The filing also reiterated that Claude will not show ads.