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Anthropic PBC today released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing its newest small model at roughly a quarter of what Haiku 4.5 costs to run. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is getting cheaper as well, since the company is halving what it charge…

Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.

But don't worry, it's totally safe because the agents and models will (probably) be running locally. Routers never break right?

I’ve been putting off writing a blog post that seems very important to me, because it seems important, and so should be done on a later day when I am a better person, and able to do it justice. Also, once I have written…

Suppose you and Bobby the car salesman are haggling over the price of a car. You could try saying that you won’t pay more than $3k, but Bobby can equally retort that he won’t sell it for less than $4k. If you guys manage…

Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.

Many people expect the AI paradigm to approximately AGI complete, and expect it to smoothly scale to AI that can do innovative science. i.e. the kind of science you'd need to do to develop a plague from scratch that actu…

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 to ChatGPT, and it will come with the capability to build more visual responses.

As previously promised , here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 . The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age. It came out almost a year ago , and was priced at $1/million in…

The developer of Hermes Agent raised a $90 million Series B.

Epistemic status: a curiosity I chased for an afternoon. Facts verified and footnoted; the why is speculation. AI use: research (more examples and their context), review, grammar and light phrasing. No added hormones I s…

Persistent agents appeal to AI companies, but demand isn't obvious

OpenAI Group PBC has published 722 math papers that it generated using an unreleased artificial intelligence model. Some of the papers, which were posted to GitHub late Tuesday, prove long-running hypotheses. Others disa…

Cisco Systems Inc. today detailed a broad expansion of its Webex collaboration portfolio that brings artificial intelligence agents into team conversations, connects office technology with workplace management and enable…

Back-end AI gives manufacturers opportunities to improve operations, but choosing where to apply it requires attention to business value. For Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd., that means evaluating operational use cases while p…

Consumer AI launches, tools, and practical coverage.

Talking to an X-ray nanoprobe beamline is far better than talking to a toaster, we assume

Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.

The research found that important guardrails for teens using ChatGPT often failed.

Nvidia-backed open source startup makes splashy entrance. AI hits U.S. K-8 education.

Agentic AI governance helps midsized distributors decide which tasks software agents can handle and which require human oversight. For lean IT teams, automating more work also means checking the data and rules behind tho…

Mainstream AI news from a large tech publication.

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website The Trump administration pressured multiple countries to withdraw their sponsorship of a leading European c…

OpenAI is launching a new Intelligent UI feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to answer your questions with interactive visuals. The update, which is rolling out to all users alongside GPT-6, gives ChatGPT the abil…

CoT override: when a model makes a decision in its CoT but ignores it in its response TLDR We train models on two conflicting traits: (1) caring about the user’s health, and (2) promoting smoking Those models do not gene…

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 with "Intelligent UI," a feature that turns answers into interactive interfaces with charts, buttons, and forms. The model can now respond while still thinking, cutting wait times by 44 percen…

Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. According to Anthropic, it is the fastest, most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 family, built for subagents and high-volume, cost-sensitiv…

Anthropic's new Claude Haiku 5.5 crushes its predecessor in benchmarks, jumping from 15.7 to 72.4 percent on the OSWorld computer use test. Token prices drop by up to 90 percent, though a new tokenizer eats into some of…

At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlined how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-engineering hardware and software for AI agents to run on W…

There is a new mech interp method in town. I found it difficult to get my head around at first, but once I understood it, I found it beautiful. I am not an expert in this topic, and mostly write this up for me to get som…

Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.

Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about the Surface Laptop Ultra, its new laptop that’s powered by Nvidia’s RT…

Enterprise RAG unlocks insights from knowledge sources like SharePoint, Google Drive, and Confluence, but those sources carry complex permissions. Learn how Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases enforce documen…

Meta’s AI agent Muse is now available on iPad, just a month after its mobile debut, as the company rapidly expands the assistant’s reach and integrations.

My question relates to full-text translators that are not specifically based on LLMs. My current understanding is that the term Generative AI goes beyond LLMs and that the full-text translators (especially those which ar…

Artificial intelligence is helping to change what success looks like for customer service teams, with less focus on call speed and deflection and greater emphasis on resolving customer issues. That shift is changing how…

How we taught robots to assemble GB300 tester trays and what it taught us about robot learning, mechanical intelligence, and good old-fashioned engineering The...

Industry-specific AI brings business context to agents handling enterprise workflows. Building around industry processes can help companies address reliability concerns as they automate more tasks. Infor (US) LLC is deve…

ChatGPT’s teen safeguards are meant to protect vulnerable users, but new testing found the chatbot continues encouraging engagement during crises and potentially encourages unhealthy relationships with the AI itself.

Sometimes it can feel to me like the worst enemy of utilitarians are utilitarians. Normies are going to get turned off to utilitarianism when they see things like Nikole Hannah-Jones hurting her own daughter's education,…

At today's Windows and Surface event, Microsoft showed off an upgrade to its Copilot AI system that will give it access to local files on your PC and the ability to take actions across the OS. It's part of an idea Micros…

OpenAI is launching a new user interface that will bring interactive visuals to ChatGPT.

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs.

Biohub, the research organization backed by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is coordinating a $1.8 billion initiative to train AI models that predict cell behavior. Meta, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, and the US…

Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties.

Google's AI watermark detector SynthID is now public. Anyone can check whether images, videos, or audio were created by Google's AI or partners like OpenAI and Nvidia. More than 180 billion pieces of content already carr…

Microsoft's Nvidia-powered Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder now and is slated to ship in November for just about $6,000. It's pricier than the DGX Spark mini PC Nvidia launched last year, but PC prices…

Strands Box is the latest open source AI control tool from the cloud giant; like its predecessors, it promises tighter reins on autonomous agents

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