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**FrontierCode** benchmark by **Cognition** highlights the challenge of coding tasks with the best model, **Opus 4.8**, scoring only about **13%** on the hardest subset, indicating coding…
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How Anthropic Courted Trump
The company lobbied for government oversight of AI with its most persuasive tool
LLM Research Papers: The 2026 List (January to May)
A curated roundup of notable LLM research papers that came out this year
[AINews] not much happened today
a quiet day of RSI.
How to Stop Shipping Low-Quality RL Environments (with Examples)
Your broken harness is actively making the model worse. Here's what I keep seeing after years of eyeballing trajectories, and what you need to fix.
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**Anthropic's Mythos/Opus cycle** sparked mixed reactions with praise for **Claude Mythos**'s one-shot workflows and concerns over **Opus 4.8** benchmark regressions. **Opus 4.7** showed strong chemistry task…
Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence
Also: how pitch a book to an AI!
The AI Industry Is Running Out of Time
Why the sudden rush, guys?
Reality: The Final Eval — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
We talk with the VendingBench authors on evaling Claudes from Haiku to Mythos, and how they build leading, and lasting, frontier evals from scratch.
Alex Imas and Phil Trammell – What remains scarce after AGI?
“One robot now turns into many robots next year, but the number of ballerinas is the same.”
Build tools, to build more
Codex Sites and open models
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**NVIDIA** released **Nemotron 3 Ultra**, a fully open **550B MoE** model with **55B active parameters** and **1M context**, optimized for long-running agent tasks with up to…
Farewell Ai2
This was my last week at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), where I got the great privilege to work on the Olmo models, to grow,…
Opus 4.8
NVIDIA and Microsoft birthed a new computer
Microsoft Build: MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI Family models, Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, and OpenClaw in Windows
**Microsoft** introduced **MAI-Thinking-1**, a **35B parameter MoE model** with **256K context**, achieving **97% on AIME 2025** and outperforming **Sonnet 4.6** in human preference tests. The broader…
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**Microsoft** released the detailed technical report for **MAI-Thinking-1**, a generalist reasoning model trained without third-party distillation, achieving **97% on AIME 2025** and outperforming Sonnet 4.6 in…
The Only AI Skill That Actually Matters
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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
Do you feel as though you are living in a revolution?
Open and closed models are on different exponentials
Where marginally higher intelligence drives value, and where it doesn't.
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**NVIDIA** led open-source AI model releases with **Cosmos 3**, a comprehensive omnimodal world model unifying language, image, video, audio, and action using a Mixture-of-Transformers design, and…
What Apple Knows About AI That Silicon Valley Won't Admit
Apple looked at AI and said: this changes nothing
The Charts the AI Industry Doesn’t Want You to See
This is what the AI story looks like
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**Anthropic** rolled out **Claude Opus 4.8**, which shows incremental improvements but mixed benchmark results, including better cooperation and coding behavior but some regressions in document parsing.…
Gemini Flash Gets Pricey, AI Act Delays, Agents Drive Online Traffic
The Batch AI News and Insights: One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is…