Anthropic claims its new Claude Opus 5 delivers near-Fable 5 performance at half the token price
Anthropic's new flagship model Claude Opus 5 posts top scores in coding and knowledge work at half of Fable 5's token rates. On ARC-AGI-3, a benchmark…
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Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage
AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures.…
Anthropic launches Opus 5
Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases
Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and others back open-weight AI
Two dozen companies and organisations signed an open letter urging US policymakers to protect open-weight AI models. The letter, published today (PDF), carries signatures from a…
Microsoft's open-weight AI push is so obviously an Azure play it hurts
Microsoft, along with Meta, Nvidia, and more than 20 other companies, is pushing for open-weight AI models in an open letter. The strategic logic is simple:…
As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
AI companies including Nvidia and Mistral urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model…
Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool
Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.
Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star
The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
OpenAI pushes ChatGPT into patient health records
OpenAI is deploying a Health feature inside ChatGPT, giving users the option to connect Apple Health data and medical records to the chatbot. Logged-in users aged…
Sakana claims its AI model router Fugu Ultra v1.1 now beats Fable 5 without even including it in the pool
Sakana AI has updated its Fugu Ultra AI router to version 1.1, claiming gains of up to 7.9 points over v1.0. Independent verification doesn't exist yet.…
‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do…
OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
Claude's voice mode now runs on Anthropic's most capable models across all platforms
Voice conversations now run on the more powerful Opus and Sonnet models with access to Gmail, Google Calendar, and Slack. Claude is currently the only AI…
Kimi K3 trails frontier US models by a wide margin on cyber exploits, and distillation may explain why
The British AI Security Institute and the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation tested Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 on offensive cyber tasks. Kimi K3 scored…
OpenAI Presence sells enterprise AI agents with engineers attached
The newest way to buy enterprise AI agents from OpenAI does not involve buying anything online. OpenAI Presence, announced on July 22, is a managed product…
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How to Build an End-to-End OCR Pipeline with Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR for High-Resolution Images and Multi-Page PDF Parsing
In this tutorial, we build a complete workflow for running Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR model on document images and multi-page PDFs. From configuring the GPU environment to comparing…
How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.
The first known runaway AI agent – or a very bad marketing stunt?
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a…
AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack scale system
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
Andrew Ng Just Released OpenWorker: An Open-Source, Local-First Desktop AI Coworker That Returns Finished Deliverables Instead of Chat
Andrew Ng has released OpenWorker, an MIT-licensed desktop AI agent that returns finished deliverables instead of chat replies. It runs a local Python agent server under…
ChatGPT will give you worse health advice if you don't pay
OpenAI is rolling out "Health in ChatGPT" to U.S. users, connecting Apple Health, medical records, and wellness apps. More than 300 million people already ask ChatGPT…
Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models
Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email
AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing
The Series A was led by Battery Ventures, bringing AegisAI total funding to $49 million.